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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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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.
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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.
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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.
Guide
Climate Adaptation
Climate Adaptation
Stormwater ponds for flood resilience
Guidance, costing and real-world examples to support municipal stormwater ponds projects for flood resilience.
Guide
Climate Adaptation
Climate Adaptation
Wetland restoration or construction for flood resilience
Guidance, costing and real-world examples to support municipal wetland restoration or construction projects that reduce flood risks.
Webinar recording
Climate Adaptation
Climate change adaptation
Climate Adaptation
Climate change adaptation
Webinar recording: Turning climate adaptation plans into projects
Learn how to move from climate adaptation planning to implementation. Explore tools, resources and peer insights to get your project shovel-ready.
Video
Climate Adaptation
Climate Adaptation
Build flood resilience with our video training series
Strengthen your community’s flood resilience with support from our video training series.
Case Study
Climate Adaptation
Climate change adaptation
Climate Adaptation
Climate change adaptation
Case study series: Adapting to climate change impacts on the water cycle
Read our case study series to discover how communities across Canada are using data to inform local climate adaptation planning.
Webinar recording
Climate Adaptation
Climate change adaptation
Climate Adaptation
Climate change adaptation
Webinar recording: Climate risk assessment and adaptation planning for municipalities
Learn how to identify climate impacts, assess climate risks and create an equitable, community-informed municipal adaptation plan.
