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Climate Risk and Resilience: Self-Assessment Tool for Communities
By Evergreen
An abridged version from Evergreen’s “Progressing to Resilience: A Climate Risk and Resilience Self-Assessment Tool for Communities” toolkit.
This tool is an evaluative checklist designed as a baseline, to examine a municipality’s current allocation of climate-resilient infrastructure, data and technology integrations, and programs on community health and wellbeing to assess a community’s ability to withstand and adapt to challenges posed by climate change.
This tool aims to support communities in assessing their vulnerabilities, developing robust adaptation plans, and implementing sustainable practices to safeguard their infrastructure, livelihoods, and natural resources. As climate-related risks intensify, developing a structured framework for preparedness, risk reduction and resilience-building is important.
By assessing current capabilities and understanding priority challenges, this checklist aims to prompt municipalities to evaluate their respective options and provide localized solutions that can play a critical role in implementing climate resiliency initiatives.
The abridged tool of this resource has been prepared by Joshua Welch, Bhani Wadhwa, Zoya Sodhi with support from Kelly Mai for use in Evergreens Climate Ready ‘Communities’ Series, This series and tool is carried out with funding from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ Green Municipal Fund and the Government of Canada.