climate adaptation

When it comes to adapting to climate change and disasters, the rest of Canada can learn a lesson or two from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. 

Faced with an almost guaranteed increase in climate-related disasters, Canada could improve its resilience by combining efforts to adapt to climate change with its approach to emergency response, according to a new report by the Council of Canadian Academies.

Ontario’s financial watchdog considers the cost of climate change on the province's public buildings in its latest report, a price tag that could be disproportionately paid by younger taxpayers.

Our country has all the necessary ingredients to excel in this challenge, write Andy Chisholm and Sean Cleary.

Canada’s National Observer asked federal Liberal Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson about critical issues in the upcoming election, and how his party would respond to the climate crisis.

Climate Proof Canada says the federal government needs to do more to keep Canadians safe from the impacts of severe weather.

Extreme weather is revealing how unprepared Canada is for the climate crisis. A new report from Natural Resources Canada spells out the disaster ahead without significant adaptation efforts.

What is already known is stunning: the average cost per weather-related disaster has soared by 1,250 per cent since the 1970s, and the number of catastrophic events has more than tripled since the 1980s.

With key infrastructure in the Maritimes and Quebec again threatened by surging waterways, flooding experts say it's past time for fixes that consider worst-case climate change scenarios.

When Alain Bourque started working in the field of climate change in the mid-1990s, he recalls how, from one presentation to the next, people didn't take him seriously.

Predicted sea level increases this century mean many face increased flooding, stronger storm surges and unpredictable weather striking Asia's coasts.