Surrey’s participation in the VANOC 2010 Carbon Partners Program will support coordinated efforts to fight climate change, create awareness and inspire action in our community. The Future Lives Here is our civic motto and showing leadership on this critical issue celebrates Surrey’s active commitment to our motto and our future.
The City of Surrey has created a Sustainability Charter that outlines the City’s approach to social, cultural, environmental and economic sustainability. Surrey’s commitment to a climate change action plan is just one of the ways that the Sustainability Charter will generate results at a community level.
Surrey has teamed with the official Carbon Offsetter of the 2010 Winter Games to calculate and offset the carbon emissions associated with the Surrey 2010 Celebration Site. To learn more about Offsetters, our partner in reducing causes of climate change, please click here.
You can offset too! For individual travelling to the Games events, Offsetters has developed a way for you to calculate and choose to offset the emissions associated with your travel:
The City of Surrey , an official partner of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games , will play host to the biggest games-time celebration south of the Fraser. The Surrey 2010 Celebration Site is a 13 day FREE winter festival featuring live entertainment, live Games broadcasts, arts performances and on-site activities.