Canada has released their National Adaptation Strategy to combat climate change effects.
Created over the course of two years, the plan outlines a framework to reduce the impacts of climate-related disasters on communities and the economy.
Climate-related emergencies have been steadily rising in volume with heatwaves, wildfires, and floods across the country.
And according to the Canadian Climate Institute, those impacts will slow economic growth by $25 billion annually by 2025.
Now, in the coming months, Ottawa will work with individual governments and Indigenous communities to create unique action plans to implement the strategy.
As well the strategy provides a framework for how to monitor and evaluate the collective progress of implementation.
At the same time, a $164.2 million investment was announced to continue flood hazard identification and mapping for the next 5 years.
