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Climate change adaptation

Domain

Environment

Subdomain

Environment and people

Indicator

Climate change adaptation

Climate change adaptation data snapshot
Description - Climate change adaptation data snapshot

58.5% of municipal organizations factored climate change adaptation into their decision-making processes in 2020.

Climate change adaptation - Public infrastructure assets
  Potable water Solid waste Stormwater Wastewater
Climate change adaptation 46.9% 27.1% 52.8% 48.4%

Source: Statistics Canada and Infrastructure Canada.


Definition

Proportion of core public infrastructure owners who factored climate change adaptation into their decision-making process.


Measurement

This indicator measures the proportion of core public infrastructure owners that factored climate change adaptation into decision-making processes, by core infrastructure asset, by type of owner, by urban and rural municipalities, and by size of municipality. It is measured using data from Canada's Core Public Infrastructure Survey (CCPI).

Climate change is a long-term shift in weather conditions identified by changes in temperature, precipitation, winds, and other indicators. Climate change can involve both changes in average conditions and changes in variability, including for example, extreme events.

Climate change adaptation involves planning for and acting on the anticipated impacts of climate change. It involves making changes to how people live and what can be done before climate change impacts happen (anticipatory) as well as being ready to respond to increasingly likely and frequent extreme events (reactive).


Data sources


Data visualizations

The following data visualization products do not include the climate change adaptation indicator as defined above by Canada's Quality of Life Framework, but include contextual information on climate change:


Data analysis

The following data analysis products do not include the climate change adaptation indicator as defined above by Canada's Quality of Life Framework, but include contextual information on climate change:


Additional information

  • Urban heat islands tools and resources from Health Canada
  • Climate Lens from Infrastructure Canada (updated periodically)
    The Climate Lens is intended to incent behavioral change and consideration of climate impacts into the planning of infrastructure projects with a view to implementing Canada's mid-century goals of a clean growth low-carbon economy.
  • Canada's National Adaptation Strategy (2021) from Environment and Climate Change Canada
    As part of the strengthened climate plan, A Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy (December 2020), the Government of Canada committed to develop Canada's first National Adaptation Strategy with provincial, territorial and municipal governments, Indigenous Peoples, and other key partners.

Frameworks

This indicator aligns with the following frameworks:

This indicator does not align directly with the following framework, however, it also addresses climate change adaptation:

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