LCR Snapshot - LCR Communications and Implementation - Lessons from ICABCCI Partner Communities

further embed LCR in procurement LCR in procurement policy: The champion practices and align enlisted procurement staff to embed LCR con- efforts across the cepts and language into various aspects of a organization to renewed procurement policy, directly embedding facilitate greater LCR into internal procurement processes, and impact and the indirectly building LCR capacity within the com- realiza. [...] The LCR ICABCCI ’S ROLE : THE CHAM P ION’ S PERSPECTIVE lens can be included in all planning requiring finance and • The SFU relationship provided legitimacy to the LCR concept and credibility funding decisions to ensure municipalities • Flexible and ongoing advisory support are considering adaptation and mitigation implications of their decisions over the short and long-term. [...] ICABCCI ’S ROLE : THE CHAM PION’ S PERSPECTIVE • Provided ongoing advisory and research support and feedback • Viewed as a ‘friendly enforcer’ to influence a collective of five municipalities, and their consultants, to include climate change and natural assets in asset manage- ment planning and implementation • Helped consultants assess the impact of climate change on fixed assets, and areas to be. [...] 20 | ACT LCR COMMUNICATIONS AND IMPLEMENTATION 2.2.1 Overcome the perception of competing priorities Challenge: A few of the first wave champi- • Emphasize the potential to streamline goals ons encountered internal perceptions that LCR and benefits and the ability to piggyback work may conflict with existing processes and on existing efforts. [...] It will therefore take years of nization in the short and long-term, and monitoring and evaluation to determine some which apply to co-benefits, to begin the aspects of the effectiveness of investments process of benchmarking and evaluating made today in LCR; however, credible economic LCR success over time.