Time to stop building infrastructure for yesterday’s climate

Climate change impacts have a high price tag. The Canadian Climate Institute has estimated that key climate change impacts are already costing households in Canada roughly $720 per year.

Coquihalla Highway 5 in British Columbia was closed to regular vehicle traffic on Nov. 14, 2021, due to damage caused by an atmospheric river, but permanent repairs were completed by November 2023.Photograph courtesy of Flickr.com, distributed under a CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED license

Opinion

BY RYAN NESS

April 8, 2024

Spring used to be the best time of the year, bringing both light and lightness as the winter receded. Increasingly, it ushers in an extended season of anxiety as many of the most serious impacts from climate change occur in Canada in the spring and summer months: floods, wil...

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