This report examines how British Columbia's infrastructure is vulnerable to the risks, and presents pathways to resilience.

British Columbians want clean, cost-saving technologies like EVs and heat pumps, but face barriers from high upfront costs to renter limitations. This paper explores how policy can unlock adoption, helping households cut bills, reduce emissions, and build lasting support for climate action.

B.C.’s housing boom presents a once-in-a-generation chance to align affordability with climate resilience. This paper outlines how new homes can be designed to be low-carbon, hazard-safe, and future-ready, ensuring today’s construction supports both families and the province’s climate goals.

With B.C. facing fiscal pressures and lagging progress toward 2030 targets, this paper examines the cost-effectiveness of current climate policies. It identifies opportunities to prioritize measures that deliver greater emissions reductions at lower public cost while advancing affordability, innovation, and equity.

Climate policies inherently reshape regional economies, alter patterns of investment and employment patterns, and transform territorial relationships. Resource-dependent and remote regions face higher risks during the low-carbon transition, if that transition fails to address their unique realities. This paper proposes a framework to bring regional development considerations and more place-based flexibility into B.C. climate policy.

This paper highlights the need to align B.C.’s net-zero goals with electricity system strategy and broader energy planning. It outlines actions to build a resilient, affordable, and reliable energy system that supports decarbonization, attracts investment, strengthens competitiveness, and advances reconciliation.

This paper argues that a renewed CleanBC must move beyond integrating Indigenous “perspectives” to recognizing Indigenous laws, decision-making authority, and governance. By embedding reconciliation at the heart of climate action—through self-determination, free, prior and informed consent, and Indigenous-led approaches—CleanBC can build more durable and just climate resilience.

The rising cost of living, strained public services, and growing geopolitical instability overshadow climate change for many British Columbians. Climate misinformation and disinformation are spreading, targeting disengaged voters. To shift public engagement to active support, climate policy and messaging need a deliberate rebalance.

Climate is deeply interconnected with multiple crises that interact and amplify each other, complicating efforts to address them. This paper looks at how governments can deal with such overlapping problems and identifies ways to better prepare the CleanBC framework for the future.

British Columbia stands at a crossroads for climate action. This overview paper sets the stage for the CleanBC Insights Series, outlining why renewing the province’s flagship climate plan is about more than cutting emissions.

PICS report summarizes university workshops that connected academic researchers to the BC First Nations Climate Strategy.

This report shares insights from a March 2025 workshop, outlining next steps to advance nature-based solutions across B.C.’s South Coast.