Canada’s National Adaptation Strategy will be too little, too late without action now

The risk of not acting to limit extreme weather risk, when the answers are in hand, is akin to ignoring holes in the roof when the near-term forecast calls for sunny skies.

As Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault works on the country’s first National Adaptation Strategy, it’s time to set targets for protecting Canadians from extreme heat, floods and wildfires, write Raissa Marks, Blair Feltmate, and Craig Stewart. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY RAISSA MARKS, BLAIR FELTMATE, AND CRAIG STEWART

August 22, 2022

Environment and Climate Change Canada is now racing against time to deliver Canada’s first National Adaptation Strategy. With 10 weeks to go before nations table their adaptation strategies at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, advisory tables set up to support development of a Canadian approach hav...

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