What is Climate Change?
Climate change is a significant change in the distribution and variability of the earth’s weather patterns ...
Welcome to the Climate Change Adaptation Project: Canada
The Climate Change Adaptation Project: Canada (CCAP) was designed to identify and operationalize practical, meaningful and cost-effective adaptation solutions to the most challenging impacts of climate change facing Canada.
There have been initiatives in Canada that profile the long-term, broad impacts of climate change and the need to embrace adaptation. But there has not been an initiative at the national level to identify a short list of priority areas of climate change challenges and solutions that Canada must address immediately. The CCAP is designed to address this policy gap by not only identifying urgent adaptation solutions, but also turning these solutions into action.
ReNew Magazine features CCAP
AnnouncementsThe November/December issue of ReNew Canada, a magazine focused on infrastructure, profiles CCAP and Partners for Action (a multi-sectoral initiative launched by the University of Waterloo and the Co-operators Group). The article is about how each group is tackling climate change adaptation, with a special focus on adapting urban infrastructure to reduce flooding.
CBC’s DocZone highlights the urgency to adapt to climate change
AnnouncementsThe documentary “Weather Gone Wild” was aired on CBC last Thursday night and it had a clear message: extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and intense due to climate change. The documentary relied heavily on CCAP Chair Blair Feltmate to provide proof of climate change impacts and to underline the urgent need for adaptation. […]
Canada lagging in reducing greenhouse gas emissions
AnnouncementsThe Fall 2014 Report of Environment and Sustainable Development Commissioner was not a flattering one for the Government of Canada. Julie Gelfand’s report showed that Canada will miss 2020 greenhouse gas emission targets and yet doesn’t have a plan for getting greenhouse gases under control. The Harper Government seems to be dragging its feet on […]
Stephane Dion had it right with his carbon tax
AnnouncementsIt’s time for Canada to listen to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and set up a carbon tax. CCAP Director Jason Thistlethwaite told the Guelph Mercury in a recent article that Canada needs to be a leader in reducing greenhouse gases. The burden of taxes should be on carbon emitters instead of incomes […]