Environment

Should effects on the climate be taken into account in every decision city council makes?

Context:

While climate resilience is one of the four strategic goals in ConnectEdmonton, the city's strategic plan for 2019-28, most of the city's decisions do not take climate change into account directly. The Community Energy Transition Strategy includes an action for the city to monitor and report on the carbon budget and to integrate a carbon accounting framework into all operating and capital budgeting decisions and priority setting by 2022.

Candidate responses Voter responses

Candidate responses

A total of 67 candidates have responded to the survey. Here's how they answered this question:

a) Yes, every decision has climate implications

Candidates that selected this response:

b) Yes for some decisions but not all

Candidates that selected this response:

c) No, most decisions don't have climate implications

Candidates that selected this response:

d) I don't have a position on this issue

No candidates selected this response

Voter responses

Based on more than 16,000 responses received as of Oct. 14, here's how voters answered this question:

Overall

By ward

Note: Taproot excluded surveys with fewer than two answers from these results. It was possible for voters to fill out the survey multiple times, but unlikely at a large scale given the structure of the survey. Voters were not able to select "I don't have a position on this issue".

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