Invest in Climate Resilience
Prioritizing climate adaptation helps safeguard our communities while also offering significant economic benefits—saving up to $15 for every dollar spent on climate adaptation strategies. Through the Green Municipal Fund, the Local Leadership for Climate Adaptation (LLCA) initiative is investing over $530 million to support more than 1,400 activities by 2031.
Explore how LLCA can support your community in building climate resilience—today and into the future.
Explore our funding opportunities
LLCA provides tailored funding to help municipalities plan, test and implement local climate adaptation solutions. Some opportunities are open now; others will launch soon.
Climate-Ready Plans and Processes – Summer 2025
Start where it matters most—with a good plan. Climate-Ready Plans and Processes funding helps your municipality create or update a climate adaptation plan tailored to your community’s specific needs, priorities and realities.
Adaptation in Action: Feasibility Studies – July 8 - October 28, 2025 (Next available funding will be Spring 2026)
Turn a great idea into a workable plan. Feasibility Study funding helps you explore the options, evaluate costs and risks, and build a solid foundation for your next climate adaptation project.
Adaptation in Action: Implementation Projects – Call #1: July 8 - August 19, 2025; Call #2: August 20 - October 9, 2025 (Next available funding will be Spring 2026)
Move from planning to action with support to get your project in the ground. Whether it’s reducing flood risks or improving natural defences, Implementation Projects funding helps bring your adaptation projects to life.
Residential Resilience Financing – Apply by January 15, 2026
Designed for municipalities with PACE-enabling legislation, Residential Resilience Financing helps build local programs that make it easier for homeowners to invest in climate resilience solutions for things like flood protection or wildfire-proofing.
Need guidance on where to start?
LLCA can take your community from awareness to action
Climate adaptation focuses on helping our communities to better handle the effects of a changing climate. While mitigation focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, adaptation seeks to respond to the climate impacts already being felt in communities, like extreme heat, flooding, or sea level rise.
LLCA meets communities where they are in this journey. Whether you’re laying the groundwork or scaling up, LLCA offers support that’s practical, inclusive and tuned into the priorities of municipal leadership. By investing in climate adaptation today, communities can improve public safety, protect local economies, and improve long-term quality of life.
Tools and resources to support your work
Climate adaptation isn’t just about responding to climate change—it’s about building stronger, more resilient communities that are better prepared for whatever lies ahead. As climate risks intensify, so does the urgency to act.
We’ve curated a growing library of tools to help municipalities plan effectively, collaborate across departments, and lead with confidence Whether you’re developing a policy, launching a project, or engaging with your community, these resources can help turn uncertainty into action.
Get started on your climate adaptation journey
LLCA’s integrated support system combines funding, training and practical tools—so you can move from ideas to action, one step at a time. We provide what you need, when you need it, to help your community adapt and thrive.
With LLCA, you can:
- Learn about your local climate risks
- Develop a plan for resilience
- Test your ideas with a feasibility study
- Implement high-impact adaptation projects
- Design a local financing program for homeowners to invest in climate resilient home upgrades
Factsheet: Why equity matters in municipal climate adaptation
Explore the importance of taking on equity-centred climate adaptation work
Read moreAdaptation Actions to Implement Climate Resilience
Discover projects to reduce your community’s climate vulnerabilities and risks
Read moreFactsheet: Applying an Indigenous inclusion lens to climate adaptation
How Indigenous perspectives strengthen municipal climate adaptation strategies
Read moreFactsheet: Advancing equity, diversity and inclusion in municipal service delivery
Serving residents better through inclusive policies and approaches
Read moreFactsheet: Advancing government-to-Nation relationships
Building strong, respectful and equitable partnerships with First Nations
Read moreExplore training opportunities from GMF Partners
Find workshops, webinars and learning sessions delivered by GMF Partners to help you strengthen your community’s climate resilience. Topics include climate risk assessments, asset management, implementation planning and more.
Self-guided learning
Enhance your understanding of climate resilience at your own pace with our on-demand materials. These factsheets and courses are designed to support you learn at your own pace at every stage of your adaptation journey.
Climate-Ready Communities Assessment Tool
Assess your community’s climate adaptation efforts and discover actionable steps to improve resilience
Read moreCourse: Building climate resilience with asset management
How to protect municipal infrastructure from climate hazards
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Webinars and Events
Stay connected through live events and webinars. Join experts and community leaders as they share insights, experiences and best practices in climate resilience planning and execution.