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.

Canada needs national infrastructure adaptation initiative

Announcements

At a seminar titled Catastrophic Loss: Fires, Floods, Explosions — What’s Next, Locusts? last week, CCAP Chair Blair Feltmate made the case for a national infrastructure adaptation program. Urban infrastructure needs to be adapted so that water from extreme weather events can be absorbed into the earth, instead of flooding the streets. Until that happens, insured and […]

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The ‘winning conditions’ and priority areas for saving Canadian cities from flooding

Announcements

The Co-operators Group and the University of Waterloo have been working together since 2013 to find ways to de-risk the Canadian residential property market from the increasingly negative impacts of overland flooding. The project, “Partners for Action: Priorities for Advancing Flood Resiliency in Canada” has involved property & casualty (P&C) insurers, government policymakers, flood risk experts, professional associations, […]

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