B.C. Looks At Rebuilding Better A Year After Devastating Flooding

Monday marked one year since an atmospheric river swept British Columbia, devastating a number of communities.

The Mayor of Merritt is expressing frustration with the federal government’s lack of speed in getting cash to communities for future flooding disasters.

Mike Goetz, who lost his own home after the storms, says meetings are set for this week with federal officials.

BC's Solicitor General and Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth touting what his government has done to help so far, including spending 24-million dollars in Disaster Financial Assistance to repair dikes.

Farnworth says the province needs to continue to adjust to the reality of climate change; meaning better flood planning and mapping. He says that work is already underway.

Flooding - climate change in general - is top of mind in Egypt at the United Nations COP27 climate talks. 

Canada’s Environment Minister is hosting an event and challenging the rest of the world to lower greenhouse gas emissions - hoping to triple carbon-pricing coverage from 20 percent of global emissions today, to 60 percent by 2030.

Steven Guilbeault says eight other countries have come on board.