Climate change adaptation

Proportion of municipal organizations that factored climate change adaptation into decision-making processes.

This indicator measures the proportion of municipal organizations that factored climate change adaptation into decision-making processes, by core infrastructure assets, by urban and rural, and by population size.

It is measured using data from Statistics Canada and Infrastructure Canada's 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.

As of 2018, climate change adaptation is defined as changes in processes, practices, and structures to moderate potential damages or to benefit from opportunities associated with climate change.

• Canada's Core Public Infrastructure Survey (CCPI)
  • Table 34-10-0277-01 – Count of municipal organization who factored climate change adaptation into decision-making process, by core infrastructure assets, by urban and rural, and population size, Infrastructure Canada
• Estimates are presented as percentages on the Canadian Indicator Framework for the Sustainable Development Goals Data Hub:
  • Indicator 13.3.1 – Proportion of municipal organization who factored climate change adaptation into their decision-making process.

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)
• Sustainable Development Goals: Goal 13, Climate Action (Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Report, October 20, 2020)

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 in a Changing Climate: Advancing our Knowledge for Action from Natural Resources Canada (2022)
• 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)
• Environmentally Adjusted Productivity Growth and the Market Price of Greenhouse Gas Emissions for the Canadian Manufacturing Sector (Economic Insights, May 8, 2019)
• Carbon Pricing in the Canadian System of Macroeconomic Accounts (Latest Developments in the Canadian Economic Accounts, May 31, 2017)

• 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.