WHY?
HOW?
WHO?
WHY?
(Resources & Activities)
Objectives
 To get municipalities to
consider climate change
into municipal decisions
and delivery of services in
order to reduce risk and
costs.
 Decisions are being made
at the municipal level that
will be with us for the
next few decades and it
makes sense that these
decisions should take
future climate change
impacts and risks into
consideration.
 Incorporating climate
change impacts and
vulnerabilities into
decision making and
program and service
delivery will result in
avoided costs, reduced
impacts from climate
change and more
resilient communities
that have more
resources available to
making communities
more liveable.
Strategies and Activities
Inputs or Resources
 Assemble adaptation  Finances for staff
team
and/or consultants
to manage team
 Develop awareness
and develop plan
and engagement
 Analyze local climate  Political
Will/Mandate
trends and climate
projections
 Staff/Departmental
support
 Identify likely local
impacts and
 Climate
vulnerabilities
Change/Extreme
Weather Impacts
 Risk assessment to
prioritize actions
 Assess and choose
among adaptation
options
 Develop Adaptation
Plan
 Incorporate
adaptation goals in
key Policies and
Plans
 Implement projects,
policies and
decisions to reduce
risk and increase
resilience
 Track and evaluate
results and
effectiveness of
adaptation
 Modify and improve
effectiveness of
decisions, programs
and delivery of
services
Outputs or Deliverables
 Training Program

 Development of a
Climate Change
Adaptation Team
 Research of Climate
Change Impacts and
Applicability to Local
Level
 Climate Change
Adaptation Training
Program
 Impacts and
Vulnerability
Assessment and
Prioritization
 Adaptation Plan

 Climate Change
factored into other
Municipal Plans
 Documentation of
Steps, Process,
Decisions and Results
 Meeting and
Webinars to share
experiences, lessons
learned with other
jurisdictions
 Climate Change
Adaptation Business
Case
Reach
Mid-Level
municipal staff
primarily from
the following
departments:
Environment/
Sustainability;
Public Health;
Planning; Roads
and
Transportation;
Infrastructure;
Storm Water
Management ;
Water
Management
Municipal
Political
Representatives
Direct or Immediate
Outcomes
(1 year)
 Increased
awareness of
climate change
impacts and
vulnerabilities
 Increased
understanding of
municipal
opportunities to
build resilience
to climate
change impacts
and
vulnerabilities
 # of
municipalities
undertaking
training program
 # of
municipalities
developed/devel
oping
adaptation plans
 # of Municipal
Plans
incorporating
Climate Change
into Plans
 # of
Municipalities
documenting
and sharing their
experiences and
lessons learned.
Intermediate
Outcomes
(2-3 years)
Long-term
Outcomes or
Impacts
(5 years)
 Development
 Municipalities
and
are asking
Implementati
themselves the
on of Climate
climate change
Change
question on an
Adaptation
ongoing basis
Plans part of
and
BAU.
incorporating
 True Cost
the climate
Accounting
change
that looks at
question into
externality
their other
costs as well
plans
as short term
 Increased
as well as long
provincial and
term costs.
federal support
 Monitoring
for municipal
and Tracking
climate change
of reduced
adaptation
impacts and
 Climate
avoided costs
Change
Adaptation a
criteria in
infrastructure
spending