The National Adaptation Strategy sets out a vision, goals and near-term targets across five interconnected systems:
- Disaster resilience
- Health and wellbeing
- Nature and biodiversity
- Infrastructure
- Economy and workers
Targets under the strategy include:
- By 2025, 60% of Canadians, including northerners and Indigenous Peoples, are aware of the disaster risks facing their household.
- By 2025, 50% of Canadians have taken concrete actions to better prepare for and respond to climate change risks facing their household.
- By 2027, 80% of coastal communities and 60% of businesses located in coastal regions are implementing adaptation actions to increase climate resilience and reduce the economic impacts of climate change.
- By 2028, the federal government, provinces, and territories have worked collaboratively to prioritise at least 200 higher-risk flood areas for new flood hazard maps / regional level modelling, and have taken evidence-based risk mitigation actions in accordance with scientific guidance.
- Communities, including northern and Indigenous communities, in zones of high risk, as identified by provinces and territories, develop wildfire community prevention and mitigation plans by 2030, with up to 15% implemented by 2028.
- By 2030, robust guidance, codes and standards covering the top climate change risks for key public infrastructure systems are available to be adopted by all infrastructure decision-makers.
- By 2040, deaths due to extreme heatwaves have been eliminated.
The Adaptation Action Plan provides the framework to achieve the goals of the National Adaptation Strategy.
