Climate Change Adaptation: Environment Canada

Climate Change Dept: A special framework on climate change adaptation introduced in last year's budget calls on bureaucrats across the government to routinely think about how decisions they make today could be hit by climate change in the years ahead, according to CBC. However, internal documents show that the team implementing the plan fears it may be dismissed in some corners of the bureaucracy, since officials won't have to keep track of how their decisions deal with climate-related risks and environment Canada is worried that the Harper government's own effort to encourage public servants to more carefully consider the risks and possible impacts of climate change is falling on deaf ears, documents show. The goal is to ensure officials get savvy to climate risks, so federal policies and programs are better able to withstand ground-level changes -- melting permafrost destabilizing infrastructure in Canada's North, for instance, or ocean acidification killing sockeye salmon. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.