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Issues
Primary Issue:
- Adapting to a Changing Climate
Context/Policy linkage
- Climate is changing. To be prepared and remain competitive, implement an innovative “Made in Canada” policy, emphasizing new technology, developed in concert with provinces and in coordination with other major industrial countries.
Key Performance Indicators
- number of adaptation strategies published each year that are based on NRCan impact assessments
- number of published vulnerability studies based on NRCan work
- number of adaptation measures adopted that acknowledge NRCan contributions and are deemed successful
Outcomes and outputs
Activities
Economic resilience
- Spatio-temporal assessments for energy, agriculture and northern ecosystem services
- Development of models, methodologies, databases
Community Adaptation
- Collaborative work with stakeholders in coastal, drought-prone and Arctic communities/regions
- Knowledge transfer to urban communities and the planning profession
Advising Public Policy
- Glacier and permafrost monitoring
- Paleo-reconstructions
- Climate, landscape & water change & modelling
- Knowledge transfer to government policy groups
- Reporting, contributing to national and international CC I&A programs