The Resilience Imperative (Canada and USA) Beyond the costs of temporary disruptions of power, transportation, and other infrastructure services, extreme weather can have dangerously destabilizing effects on our economy. For example, the Toronto and Alberta floods have shed some light on what climate change might mean for the housing market, a key sector in Canada. As Blair Feltmate, chair of the Climate Change Adaptation Project (CCAP), explains, “The harsh reality is that if we don’t make an urgent push to weather-harden our infrastructure, climate change will drive us toward an uninsurable housing market in flood-prone communities across Canada—indeed, in certain markets, we have reached this point. De-risking Canada’s vulnerability to extreme weather should be a national imperative.” renewcanada.net/2014/the-resilience-imperative/
Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 12:28:12 +0000
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