Library of climate resources

This is a collection of links to climate datasets, tools, guidance and related resources. The sources include the federal government, provincial and territorial governments, national professional organizations, climate consortia and established international organizations. It can be useful for impact, vulnerability and risk assessments, and for adaptation planning.

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Explanation of the different resource types
  • data product - downloadable climate dataset
  • tool - builds on a dataset with further analyses and/or visualization
  • guidance - provides direction on the use of climate information or on conducting climate-related assessments
  • codes and standards - guidance and best practice documents for climate resilient design
  • additional resources include educational and awareness-raising material, impact assessments and scientific syntheses

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  • Canada's Marine Coasts in a Changing Climate (Opens in a new Window)

    Canada's Marine Coasts in a Changing Climate assesses climate change sensitivity, risks and adaptation along Canada's marine coasts. The report includes overviews of regional climate change impacts, risks and opportunities along Canada's three marine coasts, case studies demonstrating action, and discussion of adaptation approaches. Led by Natural Resources Canada, the development of this report involved over 60 authors and 70 expert reviewers, and synthesized over 1300 recent publications.
    Organization:
    Natural Resources Canada
    Resource formats:
    • Vulnerability or risk assessment

    Coastal Adaptation Toolkit Adapting to Climate Change in Coastal Communities of Atlantic Canada: Part 1 Guidance for Selecting Adaptation Options (Opens in a new Window)

    Part 1 Guidance for Selecting Adaptation Options, introduces climate change adaptation for the coastal regions of the Atlantic Provinces. It describes the five main adaptation approaches, describes climate change impacts in the Atlantic Region, characterizes the coastal environments, presents criteria for adaptation decision-making, and links adaptation tools and strategies to the coastal settings of the Atlantic Provinces.
    Organization:
    CLIMAtlantic
    Resource formats:
    • Educational and awareness-raising material

    Coastal Adaptation Toolkit Adapting to Climate Change in Coastal Communities of Atlantic Canada: Part 2 Land Use Planning Tools & Adaptation Options (Opens in a new Window)

    Part 2 Land Use Planning Tools Adaptation Options, presents over 50 land use planning tools for coastal climate change adaptation. The tools and examples in this guidance document are the land use planning options of the CLIMAtlantic web-based Coastal Adaptation Tool. The document also includes overviews of the land planning and management frameworks and legislation that could support coastal climate change adaptation in each of the four Atlantic Provinces and First Nations
    Organization:
    CLIMAtlantic
    Resource formats:
    • Educational and awareness-raising material

    Coastal Adaptation Toolkit Adapting to Climate Change in Coastal Communities of Atlantic Canada: Part 3 Coastal Intervention Options & Engineering Considerations (Opens in a new Window)

    Part 3 Coastal Intervention Options and Engineering Considerations, presents over two dozen intervention options to manage coastal flooding and erosion, describes the suitability of the tools for different coastal conditions and climate change adaptation objectives (e.g., short to long-term, low, medium or high cost), and identifies the technical and permitting requirements for the adaptation approaches. The tools and examples in this volume are the engineering options of the CLIMAtlantic web-based Coastal Adaptation Tool
    Organization:
    CLIMAtlantic
    Resource formats:
    • Educational and awareness-raising material

    Indigenous Climate Change Adaptation Planning Toolkit (Opens in a new Window)

    The objective of the Indigenous Climate Change Adaptation Planning (ICCAP) Toolkit is to provide a suite of user-friendly tools, resources, and key considerations to support Indigenous individuals and communities interested in undertaking climate change adaptation planning. The intent is for the toolkit to be used by communities at all different stages of the adaptation planning process, including communities with little or no prior experience. The toolkit includes six guidebooks, additional guidance, and two Indigenous language glossaries.
    Organization:
    Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources
    Resource formats:
    • Impact assessment
    • Vulnerability or risk assessment
    • Adaptation planning
    • Training

    Inuvialuit Settlement Region Climate Change Strategy (Opens in a new Window)

    Few places in the world are experiencing the effects of anthropogenic climate change as rapidly and intensely as the Inuvialuit Settlement Region or ISR, in the Western Arctic. Inuvialuit communities and Traditional Knowledge experts have raised deep concerns about climate change and the rapid and unfamiliar environmental transformations underway, including shifting ice freeze-up and break-up trends, plant and animal species migration, coastal erosion, permafrost degradation, flooding and health and wellness effects. The ISR Climate Change Strategy aims to address the wide-ranging issues and opportunities that Inuvialuit communities face and will continue to experience in the coming years. The strategy covers core goals and enabling actions across six thematic areas: Food and Wellness, Safety, Housing and Infrastructure, Education and Awareness, Ecosystem Health and Diversity, and Energy.
    Organization:
    Inuvialuit Regional Corporation
    Resource formats:
    • Adaptation planning
    • Case study

    National Inuit Climate Change Strategy (2019) (Opens in a new Window)

    This climate strategy advances Inuit-determined actions to strengthen the sustainability and resilience of Inuit communities in the face of a rapidly changing climate and landscape, including core actions to protect Inuit culture, language and way of life. The inter-connected strategy focusses on five priority areas: knowledge and capacity-building; health, well-being and the environment; food systems; infrastructure; and, energy. The strategy provides guidance to existing and future partners, including governments and organizations, on how to work with Inuit communities to achieve their climate priorities. The strategy is available in Inuktitut Syllabics, Inuktitut Qaliujaaqpait, French, and English.
    Organization:
    Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
    Resource formats:
    • Adaptation planning

    Projet Résilience côtière (in French only) (Opens in a new Window)

    This project aims to reduce the vulnerability of communities and coastal ecosystems to coastal erosion, develop tools for improving improving the planning and commitment to coastal protection, and ease the choice of adaptation solutions for coastal erosion in the context of short, medium, and long-term climate changes.
    Organization:
    Université du Québec à Rimouski
    Resource formats:
    • Vulnerability or risk assessment
    • Adaptation planning
    • Educational and awareness-raising material


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