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Staff is seeking input from the Agricultural Advisory Committee (AAC) to help identify opportunities for agriculture to become more resilient to climate change. A climate projection report for the Okanagan, released in 2020, found hotter, drier summers, intense weather, and more precipitation are already being experienced.

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City council approved Kelowna香蕉视频直播檚 Community Climate Action Plan (CCAP) in 2018. The five-year strategy identified actions to reduce Kelowna香蕉视频直播檚 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2023. The city is now developing a Climate Resilient Kelowna Strategy over three phases to identify ways to mitigate GHG emissions and to help the community adapt and build resiliency to extreme heat, more intense wildfires, increasing water shortages, more smoke days, and flooding.

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The report to the ACC states climate change will have a range of impacts on local agriculture, and understanding how these changes are already impacting agricultural practices would be beneficial to the city香蕉视频直播檚 climate-resilient strategy.

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