New Brunswick expects to release its new five-year climate change action plan over the coming months.
The current plan, launched in 2017, has nearly 120 action items dealing with mitigation and adaptation.
In the final progress report released last week, the province said it had completed 76 per cent of the items.
Jeff Hoyt, executive director of the Climate Change Secretariat, expects there will be a smaller number of actions in the new plan.
“118 actions was a large number and any time you have that size of a number of actions, it does make it difficult to focus on priorities,” Hoyt said in a recent interview.
“I think that a renewed plan will have a more focused agenda and will have a more focused suite of actions on the things that truly need to drive us forward in our climate priorities in New Brunswick.”
Hoyt said an engagement process has taken place over the past few months to get input from residents and key groups.
The standing committee on climate change and environmental stewardship heard presentations from subject matter experts and First Nations representatives throughout the winter.
New Brunswickers also had the chance to provide input on the new action plan through an online public consultation period in January and February.
“All of that information has been taken in at this point and we’ve synthesized all of that and worked closely with our partner departments,” said Hoyt.
The new plan is expected to be released later this summer, he said.
