The #CanMNT play Qatar at BC Place on Thursday — but the Canadian geese have started their march to the match early. Vancouver showing off, as usual. 🦆🍁⚽️
holly caggiano
@holcaggiano.bsky.social
planning for climate equity (PLACE) lab • asst prof UBC SCARP • VWFC fan ⚽ • not rolling my eyes, I have tourette syndrome
"For 50 years, Vancouver had a world-famous tradition of working with, not against, neighbourhoods," writes Patrick Condon. "Step by step over the recent years, council has thrown that hard-won tradition overboard." #vanpoli thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
The Angry Backlash Against Vancouver’s Council Was Avoidable | The Tyee
City Hall ignored 50 years of successful neighbourhood planning. Now it’s feeling the heat.
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NEW PUBLICATION 📜🧪 Our article with Holly Caggiano (@holcaggiano.bsky.social) and Madison Lore is now published in the Journal of City Climate Policy & Economy (@uoftpress.bsky.social) 🔌💡 #ClimateJustice #ClimateEquity #ClimateAction doi.org/10.3138/jccp... A short 🧵 with main findings below!
What Do Cities Count? A Global Analysis of Indicators in Urban Climate Action Planning | Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy
Background: This research examines 103 climate action plans (CAPs) from 88 C40 cities to explore (a) how measurable indicators are prioritized across thematic dimensions and (b) how city-level context explains variance across planning priorities. Methods: Using UN-Habitat’s City Prosperity Index (CPI) as a guiding framework, we categorize indicators across six dimensions: environmental sustainability, productivity, infrastructure development, quality of life, urban governance, and equity. We use automated text extraction methods and qualitative coding to create a novel data set of indicators from CAPs. Regression analyses assess how city-level variables, including population size, climate risk, and development indices, relate to emphasis on different CPI dimensions. Results: Global cities measure and track a diverse range of metrics across CPI dimensions. Environmental sustainability and infrastructure development are the most commonly tracked indicators, with equity and social inclusion less frequently recorded across cities globally. When measured, equity indicators are most often paired with quality of life and governance outcomes, but these results are heterogeneous across continents. Cities with higher levels of climate risk are more likely to track environmental and infrastructure indicators, and lower quality of life rankings are related to greater CAP emphasis on equity. Conclusion: Our findings indicate that social and economic dimensions of climate action planning, including equity, productivity, quality of life, and governance, remain unevenly integrated across cities globally. Considering heterogeneity in how CAPs measure progress, we suggest that efforts to achieve climate justice require not only scaling up technical solutions but also embedding distributive and procedural equity throughout climate planning approaches.
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@zoeyunker.bsky.social knocked this out of the park. Grateful for the support from @picscanada.bsky.social to do this work Full workshop report download here:https://climatesolutions.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/CF-Dialogue_Collective-Ownership_FINAL.pdf
Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions@picscanada.bsky.social · 3mo agoHow can collective ownership of climate transition infrastructure help drive the #EnergyTransition & strengthen communities? A recent PICS-funded dialogue explored the question — read more by @zoeyunker.bsky.social climatesolutions.ca/is-collectiv... @holcaggiano.bsky.social
lol a solar project is being delayed five years because the company developing it connected to the wrong transmission line & now has to restart the process with pjm
Solar project delayed 5 years after Energix connects to wrong line
The company behind Mount Jackson's long-delayed solar project told council members Tuesday night that its own software mislabeled the transmission line it planned to connect to, a mistake that will
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New column available at the website and for subscribers, paid and free, to hit inboxes early Wed. a.m. #SaveTheCaps #Crew96 #SaveTheCrew I made dropped the paywall with the hope that it two people in Vancouver read it. Have a nice day. www.thedisrespected.com/p/27f60e7f-0...
The MLS Ponzi scheme shakedown expands to Vancouver
All of Columbus is rooting for the Whitecaps
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I have only been watching oil markets closely for like 25 years, so I could be wrong, but I very much doubt there has ever been a gap this big between reality and the markets. Brent at $101 right now is ABSURD. It could easily double from here. Listen in and find out why!
Transition Show@transitionshow.bsky.social · 4mo agoIn Ep. 272, oil analyst @roryjohnston.bsky.social explains why the Iran war has thrown the world into uncharted territory, with unprecedented high prices ahead. Are you ready for record high gasoline prices? This episode is not paywalled, so enjoy & share widely! xenetwork.org/ets/episodes...
Great article from Benjy Sachs on the fight for public power and the strategy from below in Hudson Valley with @sarahana.bsky.social representing @mhvdsa.bsky.social and her community in the legislature! Features @lucyhoch.bsky.social of @publicgrids.org & Winston Yau of @cplusc.bsky.social!
Public Power Advocates Have Learned From Past Failures
After a disappointing referendum in Maine, campaigners in New York are taking their arguments straight to lawmakers.
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Grateful to @picscanada.bsky.social for funding & coordinating our dialogue on community ownership for climate mitigation infrastructure. my biggest takeaway: ownership means little without democratic decision making and local control
Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions@picscanada.bsky.social · 6mo agoComplex #ClimateChange challenges don’t have easy answers. It takes contemplation and collaboration to seed new thinking that can lead to effective #ClimateSolutions. PICS’ Climate Foresight program offered two such opportunities to researchers this fall. https://ow.ly/RwFv50Y8u97
📚🎁 Reminders for everyone looking for specific books to purchase online as gifts: 1. If you haven't called your local independently-owned book shop, try there first. (If you don't have one, try Bookshop.org) 2. Don't put it off - shipping time for Media Mail can be 12 days. Priority is 5 📦
Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.
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Classic Friday in America. Sneak this out, follow it up with the incredibly bizarre World Cup draw complete with a made up peace trophy for Trump. Ughghhhhgghhhhhh
Phillips OBrien@phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 8mo agoThe Trump administration released its latest National Security Strategy--and one thing that can be said is that there is no more pretending. It’s a plan to weaken European unity, to make Europe MAGA, to force Europe to take economic dictation by the USA…. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
The WSJ reports on the historic news yesterday that Eavor has begun operations of the first commercial-scale multilateral closed loop geotherm power project in the world! It's not every day that a new power tech has its "world's first" moment. Don't miss this www.wsj.com/articles/a-g... 🔌💡
Exclusive | A Geothermal Company Wants to Use New Technology to Heat an Old German Town
A project in Bavaria is harnessing high temperatures from deep beneath the earth to provide a community with warmth in the winter and to power the local grid in the summer.
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The word 'retrofit' is insufficient to explain the programs Vancouver's ABC party is cutting, said planning Holly Caggiano, a professor at UBC. "It kind of makes it sound like this is a luxury, but cooling and living in a safe home is a human right." www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/04/n...
Vancouver cuts to housing retrofits will be 'responsible for lost lives'
Funding for the city's existing buildings retrofit program was nixed in a last-minute amendment brought forward by ABC Councillor Lenny Zhou to Mayor Ken Sim's controversial 2026 budget.
nationalobserver.com
117 people died during the 2021 heat dome. Vancouver is getting hotter. Cooling buildings will save lives.
Vancouver cuts to housing retrofits will be 'responsible for lost lives'
Funding for the city's existing buildings retrofit program was nixed in a last-minute amendment brought forward by ABC Councillor Lenny Zhou to Mayor Ken Sim's controversial 2026 budget.
nationalobserver.com
The impacts of this decrease in both the number and amount of NIH and NSF funding will be felt for generations, but props to the NIH and NSF program managers and support staff who got this many grants and this much funding out the door under very difficult circumstances.
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article)
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
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goin to Miami 🎶 #vwfc
Ben Steiner@bensteiner00.bsky.social · 8mo ago🌊VANCOUVER WHITECAPS TO MLS CUP! The Whitecaps are off to MLS Cup for the first time with a dominant 3-1 win over San Diego FC. Next Saturday afternoon in Fort Lauderdale — #VWFC v Miami. 11 years after the 2014 World Cup, Müller and Messi meet in a final once again.
9/ This is reckless climate and economic policy. And magical thinking. Net zero doesn’t happen without reducing fossil fuel supply. At least the US has the cojones to say it doesn’t give a shit about climate. @mark-carney.bsky.social is still pretending that Canada does. FIN
Not the big pipeline news today but deeply important: "part of a pattern of the public being asked to foot the bill for fossil fuel infrastructure"
Canada's National Observer@nationalobserver.com · 8mo agoIn other pipeline news, small towns in BC are about to lose a huge chunk of tax revenue from the last pipeline that rolled through town: the Trans Mountain expansion.
We're revisiting Comment articles from 2025. Today, take a read of "Planning for equitable carbon removal governance" by @holcaggiano.bsky.social
Planning for equitable carbon removal governance - Nature Reviews Clean Technology
With growing investment in technological options for durable, large-scale carbon removal projects, there is an opportunity for planners to consider what equitable models of carbon removal development and deployment might look like in practice.
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At a time when prices are skyrocketing, climate commitments are getting rolled back, and assistance programs are threatened — I hope you'll read about the public utility that almost was and the lessons we learned along the way, so you can win next. climateandcommunity.org/research/end...
End Point or Setback? A Retrospective of the Maine Public Power Ballot Initiative
CCI polling revealed that even following the vote, twice as many Mainers prefer public ownership of energy resources than private ownership.
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Report launch day! Check out this project with @cplusc.bsky.social looking back on Maine's public power ballot initiative. Despite a classic case of corporate capture and a loss at the polls, this is a hopeful story that (imo) has a lot to teach us @smconstantino.bsky.social #energysky
Climate and Community Institute@cplusc.bsky.social · 9mo agoWhat lessons can utility justice and public power advocates draw from this campaign? Read the full report and recommendations to learn more: climateandcommunity.org/research/end...
Absolute banger and a set piece assist, Sebastian Berhalter is player of the game 🫡 Throw back to when he brought the Voyageurs cup to our house last year @axilla2.bsky.social Now for conf semi finals LFG WHITECAPS #VWFC #USMNT
Berhalter and Reyna out here scoring goals and healing generational trauma... You love to see it #usmnt
In this new report from me & @rhymeswithocean.bsky.social for @cplusc.bsky.social & @publicgrids.org, we argue the current electricity affordability crisis is caused by the rules of private ownership. To solve the crisis, we recommend banning shutoffs now and using many tools to expand public power!
Overcharged: The Rules Of The Electricity Affordability Crisis
Nearly a quarter of adults in the US—or over 52 million people—cannot pay their power bills.
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Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW). The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
charjaebug@jael.bsky.social · 10mo agoSCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency @heatmap.news