Climate Change: Adaptation Tools and Guides
Accelerating Adaptation in Canadian Communities
In 2012, the Clean Air Partnership (CAP) connected with municipal representatives across Ontario and identified a number of key recurring gaps related to climate change adaptation in Ontario municipalities. Accelerating Adaptation in Canadian Communities is a series of nine case studies and three webinars.
By developing these case studies and addressing gaps in climate change adaptation in Ontario, CAP hopes to: Review and update understanding of the current state of climate change adaptation in Ontario municipalities; describe the experiences of municipalities that have begun adaptation actions; and motivate more municipalities to undertake adaptation measures.
Land Use Planning Tools for Local Adaptation to Climate Change
This document describes tools in the land use planning sector that communities can use in preparing to adapt to climate change. In addition, it provides information on decision-support tools, tools that provide information and resources to help planners and local decision makers take effective adaptation action. A brief example of each tool and its use by a Canadian community is given.
Municipal Climate Change Adaptation Training
In 2011 as part of the Ontario Regional Adaptation Collaborative, the Clean Air Partnership (CAP) delivered an Intensive Municipal Adaptation Training in climate change adaptation planning for municipal officials in Ontario. The Training Program addressed the key considerations for municipal climate change adaptation; the impacts of climate change on Ontario municipalities; how to assess community risks and vulnerabilities; key steps in planning for adaptation; and how municipalities can build on their strengths to integrate climate change adaptation measures into existing goals, plans and programs. Visit this tool to access all of the resources used for this adaptation training.
Climate Change Adaptation Toolkit User Guide
The Climate Change Adaptation Toolkit has been developed to facilitate robust decision-making processes and to integrate climate change adaptation across the organisation. Specifically: Integrate adaptation and support effective risk management, be more responsive to climate change shocks and trends, maintain standards of service delivery in the face of extreme weather, make effective and consistent decision regarding climate change, form linkages across different work areas, and incorporate uncertainty into decision making.
Implementing Climate Change Adaptation: Lessons Learned from ten Examples
Some of the main questions communities face in planning for and implementing climate adaptation are: how to begin, how best to use climate science, how to determine the right policies, how to institutionalize them, and how to budget for them. This paper presents ten examples of cities and counties around the country. Each highlights the key lessons learned in the process of moving from planning to implementation on climate adaptation.
Adapting to Urban Heat: a Toolkit for Local Governments
This Urban Heat Tool Kit is designed to help local governments reduce the effects of increased heat on their communities and citizens. It provides an analytic tool for policy makers to consider a combination of four built-environment changes (cool roofs, green roofs, cool pavements, and urban forestry), providing clear criteria for selecting among these approaches. It also examines the roles government can play in pursuing these changes: shaping government’s own operations, mandating or providing incentives for private choices, and engaging in public education.
Leadership & Legacy: Handbook for Local Elected Officials on Climate Change
This handbook has been tailored for elected officials given their position on the front lines. The goal of the handbook is to provide justifications for why cities should proactively undertake an adaptation process and information on climate change that can be used to rationalize adaptive actions. The handbook also offers clear-cut strategies for communicating climate change and the necessity of adaptation in cities.
Center for Climate Strategies Adaptation Guidebook: Comprehensive Climate Action
This report provides a complete stepwise, fact based, sector-specific methodology on climate adaptation action planning and policy development. Through comprehensive climate action planning that includes adaptation, federal, state, regional, and local governments can anticipate, manage, and reduce the risks and impacts of climate change, as well as pursue opportunities for optimizing strong climate investments and policy making.
Climate Change Adaptation Planning: a Handbook for Small Canadian Communities
The purpose of the Handbook is to help small Canadian communities to prepare and implement a Climate Change Adaptation Plan (CCAP). The Handbook helps community planners take the key steps required to plan for climate change adaptation and decision makers determine what strategic actions need to be taken.
AdaptME Toolkit: Adaptation Monitoring & Evaluation
This toolkit will help you to: 1) refine your evaluation purpose and objectives, 2) reflect on what you are trying to evaluate and the logic behind it, 3) understand how specific traits of climate adaptation can make evaluation challenging and how you can overcome these challenges, 4) draw out, understand and re-evaluate your assumptions, 5) consider how progress and performance might be best measured and evaluated, 6) identify examples, good practice and techniques which may help ensure your evaluation is robust, 7) prioritize your evaluation activities.