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ACT was founded to study nine core topics that require climate change adaptation planning in Canada - extreme weather, energy, sea level rise, health risks, population displacement, biodiversity, innovative governance, crops and food supply, and new technologies. Throughout our past projects and in the research we do today, ACT takes the key areas of focus that we were founded on, and the low carbon resilience approach that emerged, into consideration. Now, ACT is leading the Natural Solutions Initiative (NSI) to promote more cohesive and systemic nature-based solutions planning and implementation. Details on the areas of focus and past projects can be found below.

Integrated Climate Action for British Columbia Communities Initiative (ICABCCI)

From 2018 to 2021, the Integrated Climate Action for British Columbia Communities Initiative (ICABCCI) partnered with 13 local governments across British Columbia, ranging from small to large, and from rural to urban, at all stages of climate action. The goal was to collaboratively advance and test the low carbon resilience approach in planning and decision-making.

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Biodiversity-Led Nature-based Solutions

ACT has been working since 2017 to develop research insights into ways climate adaptation can benefit biodiversity, and vice versa. Nature-based solutions (NbS) are emerging worldwide as a low carbon, resilient option in urban and rural planning, and it's important that we begin to consider how these approaches can also be designed to benefit species struggling to survive and adapt under a changing climate. 

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Columbia River Treaty

From 2015 to 2017, ACT completed significant work on the implications of climate change for the future of the Columbia River Treaty. Our research explored the initial intent of the Treaty and its success to date, its costs to Columbia Basin residents and ecosystems, and new influences the signatories should consider.

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Areas of Focus

ACT was founded to study nine core topics that require climate change adaptation planning in Canada. Each topic was assigned a senior policy author and a team of graduate researchers, and featured research into climate change challenges and policy responses as well as workshops and other engagement and outreach. 

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Coastal Cities at Risk

From 2012-2016, Metro Vancouver was one of four international metropolitan areas, along with Manila, Lagos, and Bangkok, that took part in the $12.5 million research Coastal Cities at Risk network that ACT contributed to, funded by the Canadian International Development Research Council’s International Research Initiative on Adaptation to Climate Change (IRIACC).

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