Announcements, Tools and Other Resources 

Let's Talk Adaptation!
The Government of Canada has initiated a public engagement to collect ideas and comments for the purpose of developing Canada's first National Adaptation Strategy. This engagement initiative will run from May to July 15, 2022. During this time, Canadians will be engaged on specific, measurable and achievable short-term actions to support long-term transformational goals and medium-term objectives identified in the adaptation priority sections listed below and on this discussion paper. If your organization or government would like to provide a written submission on the National Adaptation Strategy, please send it to adaptation@ec.gc.ca.  

New Resources:
Due North  (2022) - Northern Canada faces a double threat of already inadequate infrastructure in a rapidly warming climate. Due North, from the Canadian Climate Institute, is the first major assessment of the costs of climate change to infrastructure across all of Northern Canada, and finds that all orders of government should set policies and make investments without delay to prepare for the impacts of climate change on Northern infrastructure. 
 
Clear Seas (2022) - Clear Seas Centre for Responsible Marine Shipping (Clear Seas) developed this report to provide an understanding of the extent of climate change threats, and to identify potential adaptation strategies for managing climate threats in the Canadian maritime environment. Information provided in this report serves to support decision making by the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) and other governmental departments, port authorities, industry, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), Indigenous and coastal communities, and Indigenous governments responsible for delivering maritime services. This report will support these decision makers as they explore integrated and long-term strategic approaches to climate change adaptation planning to decision making for the management of maritime services in Canada, including to deliver safe, accessible, and sustainable waterways for Canadians. 

New Scholarly Resources:
Resilience to climate change-caused flooding - Metro Vancouver case study (2022) - Climate variability, together with other drivers of global change (like population growth, land‐use change, etc.), is affecting the management of floods. Traditional approaches are no longer sufficient to address the increased pressures that areas vulnerable to flooding are facing.To capture the dynamic spatio‐temporal characteristics of resilience and gauge the effectiveness of potential climate change adaptation options, a flood resilience simulation tool (FRST) is developed to use the analytical framework. The FRST is applied to a case study in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The simulation model focuses on the impacts of climate change‐influenced riverine flooding and sea‐level rise.

Topographic and vegetation drivers of thermal heterogeneity along the boreal–grassland transition zone in western Canada: Implications for climate change refugia (2022) - Climate change refugia are areas that are relatively buffered from contemporary climate change and may be important safe havens for wildlife and plants under anthropogenic climate change. Topographic variation is an important driver of thermal heterogeneity, but it is limited in relatively flat landscapes, such as the boreal plain and prairie regions of western Canada. Topographic variation within this region is mostly restricted to river valleys and hill systems, and their effects on local climates are not well documented. This study seeks to quantify thermal heterogeneity as a function of topography and vegetation cover within major valleys and hill systems across the boreal–grassland transition zone.