Local Leadership for Climate Adaptation
What You Need to Know
Communities across Canada are adapting to a changing climate. Flooding, extreme heat, wildfires and shoreline erosion affect homes and businesses, put pressure on local infrastructure, and add to the costs that families and municipalities carry. Preparing for these risks in advance is one of the most effective ways to keep people safe and to keep those costs from growing.
Through the latest round of the Green Municipal Fund’s Local Leadership for Climate Adaptation initiative, $34.2 million is being invested in municipalities across the country to help strengthen their resilience to climate change. These projects include the development of resilience plans, climate-focused asset management strategies, comprehensive risk assessments, and program design studies for adaptation financing and implementation projects.
Protecting Canadians from a changing climate means preparing before the next flood or heat wave, not after. Doing that work now keeps people safe, holds down the costs that families and communities carry, and keeps Canada’s economy strong and competitive.
