Kent Snyder (RPP, MCIP) leads a team at the City of Edmonton commissioned to develop the long-term climate change action, growth, mobility and open space strategies, that provide guidance for our community to become a thriving, equitable and sustainable city of two million. He is also co-chair of the City’s Climate Task Force, which has a mandate to transform the organization so that we can meet our corporate and community energy transition goals and make our city more resilient to a changing climate. Kent is a Registered Professional Planner with over 20 years of city building leadership in both the public and private sectors.
City in Action: Climate Task Force – Kent Snyder (Wednesday October 16, 14.00 – 14.30)
In 2023, the City’s Executive Leadership Team struck the Climate Task Force to take a new corporate-wide, integrated approach to more rapidly and effectively implement the City’s climate emergency response. Made up of leaders from across the organization, the Task Force is creating transformative change on a system-wide scale, generating action plans and making recommendations to better integrate environment and climate change into all aspects of City work. The Task Force includes advocate members for equity, Indigenous perspectives, and climate, as well as leads for each of the seven focus areas: Governance and Decision-Making, Developing and Implementing Policy and Bylaw, Building Capacity, Culture, Partnership and Advocacy, Green Economy, and Intersectionality.