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Climate Adaptation
Climate Adaptation
Factsheet: Why equity matters in municipal climate adaptation
Discover how your local government can build equity into its climate resilience activities. Read this factsheet for key definitions and helpful resources.
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Guide
Municipal buildings
Municipal buildings
Guide: Taking your indoor swimming pool to net zero
A guide with key measures and lessons learned to help you build a plan for net-zero indoor swimming pools.
Guide
Municipal buildings
Municipal buildings
Guides: Equity and non-energy benefits of community building retrofits
Explore the equity and other non-energy benefits of retrofitting community buildings.
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Trees
Trees
Factsheet: Urban forest planning
Read up on why developing an urban forest plan is important for the long-term success of trees in your community.
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Sustainable affordable housing
Affordable, community-led care for seniors in rural PEI
Climate Adaptation
Protecting Teslin from disastrous flooding
The False Creek Neighbourhood Energy Utility (NEU) received a $1.5-million grant and a $10.1-million loan from GMF to expand its existing sewage heat recovery (SHR) system in downtown Vancouver.
Webinar recording
Climate Adaptation
Climate Adaptation
Equitable climate adaptation starts with community
An expert panel discussed examples, approaches and strategies around local climate adaptation through an equity lens, sharing insights into local climate priorities and resources to support community climate adaptation projects.
Webinar recording
Climate Adaptation
Climate Adaptation
Building for climate change
An expert panel discussed what climate data is and shared their experiences in applying it to municipal adaptation initiatives, showing us how municipalities are uniquely positioned to use data to respond to the changing climate and strengthen their adaptation efforts.
Webinar recording
Climate Adaptation
Climate change adaptation
Climate Adaptation
Climate change adaptation
Webinar recording: Strengthen your Adaptation in Action implementation project application
Learn how municipalities can assess flood risk, prioritize action, and integrate resilience into real-world projects.
Municipal buildings
Case studies: Winners of FCM's 2024 Sustainable Communities Awards
Discover the outstanding environmental initiatives that received FCM’s Sustainable Communities Awards in 2024.
Webinar recording
Climate Adaptation
Climate change adaptation
Climate Adaptation
Climate change adaptation
Webinar recording: From assessing flood risks to taking action
Learn how municipalities can assess flood risk, prioritize action, and integrate resilience into real-world projects.
Webinar recording
Climate Adaptation
Climate change adaptation
Climate Adaptation
Climate change adaptation
From climate plans to projects
An expert panel discussed the challenges in moving from project planning to implementation, offering strategies, tools and insights for prioritizing projects, getting buy-in and securing funding.
Webinar recording
Climate Adaptation
Climate change adaptation
Climate Adaptation
Climate change adaptation
Webinar recording: Moving climate adaptation projects into action
Practical climate adaptation tools and examples to help small municipalities move from climate risk to action and start building local resilience.
Webinar recording
Climate Adaptation
Climate change adaptation
Climate Adaptation
Climate change adaptation
Webinar recording: Start collaborating for municipal climate adaptation planning
Learn how your municipality can collaborate with partners to engage in and strengthen equitable climate adaptation planning.
Guide
Climate Adaptation
Climate Adaptation
Fire-resistant material installations for community facility resilience
Guidance, costing and real-world examples to support municipal fire-resistant material installation projects for community facilities resilience.
Guide
Climate Adaptation
Climate Adaptation
Green roof installations for community facility resilience
Guidance, costing and real-world examples to support municipal green roof installations for community facilities resilience.
Guide
Climate Adaptation
Climate Adaptation
Battery back-ups and battery-powered generators for community facility resilience
Guidance, costing and real-world examples to support municipal battery back-up and generator projects for community facilities resilience.
Guide
Climate Adaptation
Climate Adaptation
Wildfire prevention training for wildfire resilience
Guidance, costing and real-world examples to help municipalities deliver wildfire prevention training that builds local capacity and preparedness.
Guide
Climate Adaptation
Climate Adaptation
Vegetative management and replacement for wildfire resilience
Learn how vegetative management and replacement reduce wildfire risk through fuel reduction, buffer zones and community-led action.
Guide
Climate Adaptation
Climate Adaptation
Prescribed and cultural burns for wildfire resilience
Guidance, costing and real-world examples to help municipalities plan prescribed and cultural burns to reduce wildfire risk and support ecosystem health.
Guide
Climate Adaptation
Climate Adaptation
Cooling centres for heat resilience
Guidance, costing and real-world examples to help municipalities plan accessible cooling centres during extreme heat events.
Guide
Climate Adaptation
Climate Adaptation
Shade structures for heat resilience
Learn how shade structures reduce heat risk in public spaces, with design guidance, costs and real-world municipal examples.
Guide
Climate Adaptation
Climate Adaptation
Permeable pavements for flood resilience
Guidance, costing and real-world examples to support municipal permeable pavements projects for flood resilience.
