Climate change adaptation

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

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).

• Canada's Core Public Infrastructure Survey (CCPI)
  • Table 34-10-0290-01 – Asset management practices of core public infrastructure

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:

• Goal 13, Climate Action (Sustainable Development Goals, January 25, 2024)
• Physical flow account for greenhouse gas emissions: Interactive tool (Statistics Canada - Data Visualization Products)
• Greenhouse gas emissions from Environment and Climate Change Canada
• Accounting for ecosystem change in Canada: selected findings from Human Activity and the Environment, 2021 (Statistics Canada - Infographics, January 25, 2022)
• A look at the potential impact of telework on public transit and greenhouse gas emissions using 2015 data (Statistics Canada - Infographics, April 22, 2021)

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:

• Canada’s Core Public Infrastructure Survey : asset management practices, solid waste infrastructure, and culture, recreation and sports facilities, 2022 (The Daily, February 4, 2025)
• Canada's Core Public Infrastructure Survey: Replacement values, 2022 (The Daily, October 24, 2024)
• Research to Insights: Social, Economic, and Health Perspectives on Climate Change (A Presentation Series from Statistics Canada About the Economy, Environment and Society, April 15, 2024)
• Accounting for ecosystem change in Canada (Human Activity and the Environment 2021, January 25, 2022)
• Working from home: Potential implications for public transit and greenhouse gas emissions (Economic and Social Reports, April 22, 2021)

• 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.