Operationalizing Adaptation to Climate Change

In contrast to the healthy debate about the best way to mitigate Canada’s contribution to climate change, there is a distinct lack of debate on how Canada will adapt to its effects. Should Canada’s ports rebuild infrastructure to accommodate the predicted rise in sea levels? Must Canada’s highways be engineered to higher standards to withstand the effects of greater temperature variability? More fundamentally, who is responsible for developing adaptation strategies and measures? The Conference Board of Canada gathered some of the leading domestic “adaptation” thinkers for the first Private Sector Roundtable on Adaptation to Climate Change. Operationalizing Adaptation to Climate Change reports on the Roundtable, its discussions and its conclusions.