A report to Kelowna council on methods to cut greenhouse gas emmissions identifies drivers as some of the biggest targets.
The ideas are some of the proposed measures for the Community Climate Action Plan, which will be finalized by council early next year.
Potential suggestions on cutting pollution include banning new drive-thrus, bringing in a vehicle idling ban, and raising parking rates.
Councillor Gail Given says climate change can be a tough conversation starter, but it needs to be talked about.
"I know there's often, in the bigger scheme of things, people will say 'well, until China does something we're not going to impact anything.' Well, it's kind of a toss it off to somebody else," she said.
"Whereas each individual one of us can take actions that will change the future."
Councillor Maxine DeHart's annual drive-thru breakfast is one of the biggest local fundraisers for the United Way.
She heard from Sustainability Coordinator Tracy Guidi on the timeline for those measures to be approved.
"When we actually get to implementing (a drive-thru ban), that's when we would do full-on engagement and gauge organizations that are already with drive-thrus," she said.
"At the point in March when we bring this plan back to you, if that remains one of the actions that are in here, it doesn't mean that that would happen overnight. It would mean we'd actually have to come back (to council) and change the bylaws, come back for public hearing, and go through that full process."
The latest numbers from 2012 say Kelowna's emissions totalled over 642,000 tonnes of CO2, with 55% of that total coming from cars.
The report also talked about the likelihood of extreme weather events, like flooding and forest fires, increasing over the coming years.
Mayor Colin Basran stressed that the public will have an opportunity to make their feelings heard in the new year.
"Please get engaged and involved and give us your feedback, because that's the whole point of this exercise," he said.
"You may not like some of these ideas, but that's the whole point, is to put everything out on the table, and allow you to give us your feedback. So that's what we're doing."
City staff will lead consultation with the public starting in January, and present a draft of their Action Plan later in the year.