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Proactive climate adaptation can cut Ontario public infrastructure costs: watchdog  

November 23, 2023 Jordan Omstead - THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO – The dangers of a changing climate could add more than $4 billion per year to the cost of maintaining Ontario’s public infrastructure over the rest of the century, the province’s financial watchdog said Wednesday.   But the report from

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Canadian municipalities looking to become ‘spongier’ to build climate resilience  

October 10, 2023 Morgan Lowrie - THE CANADIAN PRESS

MONTREAL – From green roofs in Toronto to Vancouver’s rain city strategy, Canadian cities are looking to become “sponges” in order to help mitigate some of the effects of extreme rainfall events.   In Montreal, Mayor Valerie Plante announced last week

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Too early to confirm costs from flooding in B.C., Ontario, Quebec and Maritimes: Aon

May 11, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

Persistent recent heavy rainfall falling across several Canadian provinces has led to increasingly rising rivers, streams and lakes this week, as communities “raced to protect from water inundation,” Impact Forecasting said on Thursday in an Aon cat alert. Financial losses

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ICLR to host webinar on lot-level approaches to control urban flood risk and mitigate basement flooding

April 7, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

The Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR) will be hosting a webinar in two weeks on lot-level approaches to control urban flood risk and mitigate basement flooding. The webinar on April 21 at 10 a.m. Eastern time is part of

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ICLR to host webinar related to extreme rainfall on March 24

March 2, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

The Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR) will be holding a webinar on “physics” versus climate models as related to extreme rainfall on March 24. The ICLR announced the webinar, titled Practical issues in updating IDF curves for future climate:

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UN report: Human footprint ‘increasingly visible’ in climate

November 8, 2016 Karl Ritter - THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MARRAKECH, Morocco – Hot and wild and with an “increasingly visible human footprint” – that’s how the U.N. weather agency sums up the global climate in the past five years. In a report released Tuesday at international climate talks in