Strategic Climate Risk & Resilience Assessment

The Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) is inviting qualified Proponents to conduct a comprehensive Strategic Climate Risk and Resilience Assessment. This assessment will consider climate projections and identify the key climate-related risks facing our community, including potential social, economic and environmental impacts to the community. This assessment will also evaluate the resilience of critical infrastructure, natural systems and social services in the face of those risks, including identifying opportunities to mitigate risks.
This project aligns both climate action and disaster planning and management. The RMOW’s Strategic Climate Risk & Resilience Assessment is being undertaken as part of government’s public reporting requirements under the B.C. Climate Change Accountability Act and in support of anticipated changes to Provincial emergency planning and management requirements, as well as in support of our Big Moves Climate Action Implementation Plan (Big Moves CAIP). This project is intended in part to provide a local-scale climate risk assessment similar to the 2019 Preliminary Strategic Climate Risk Assessment for British Columbia (BC Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy), with the additional aspect of assessing the community’s resilience to projected climate change and associated impacts.

This project will also include a review of the RMOW’s current climate adaptation goals and action plan (as articulated in the Big Moves CAIP), considering the findings of the risk and resilience assessment. This review is aimed to help ensure a strategic, proactive and prioritized approach to strengthening Whistler’s capacity to prepare for, withstand and recover from projected climate impacts. The resulting analysis will inform climate adaptation and emergency management plans, policies and related initiatives and decisions to help ensure that resilience-building efforts are data-driven and aligned with the RMOW’s vision and climate goals.

The successful Proponent will be awarded a contract with the expectation to complete this assessment and all related deliverables by no later than June 15, 2026 for a maximum budget of $50,000. This project is being initiated with funding from the Union of BC Municipalities Community Emergency Preparedness Fund (UBCM CEPF), specifically the Disaster Risk Reduction – Climate Adaptation program. The RMOW encourages creative approaches to maximizing value in order to achieve the highest quality project deliverables possible.

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