Support northern communities confronting immediate climate adaptation challenges.

What success looks like

Northern communities strengthen their capacity to adapt to changing environments.

Government's narrative on progress

Under the Pan-Canadian Framework for Clean Growth and Climate Change, the Government of Canada has been working with Territorial governments, communities, academia and Indigenous partners to implement climate change adaptation projects in Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Nunavik and Nunatsiavut. The Climate Change Preparedness in North program, announced in Budget 2016 and expanded in Budget 2017, provides support to northern communities and organizations to help them adapt to climate change impacts by funding projects such as assessment of vulnerability and risk assessments of climate change impacts, development of hazard maps and adaptation plans, development of adaptation options, and implementation of non-structural and structural adaptation measures. To date, the program has funded 111 climate change adaptation projects in the North representing $15.1 million in total investments. The Indigenous Community-Based Climate Monitoring Program, announced in Budget 2017, supports the collection of local data on climate and climate change impacts that can be used to support adaptation planning and decision making. To date, the program has funded 50 community-based climate monitoring projects in the North, representing $3.3 million in total investments.

Note: this is the government's own description, not an independent assessment.