Climate Ready Ottawa
The draft climate resiliency strategy, Climate Ready Ottawa, is now available for public consultation. Climate Ready Ottawa identifies actions to address the top risks facing Ottawa and prepare for a much warmer, wetter and unpredictable climate.
Climate Ready Ottawa builds on the Climate Projections and Climate Vulnerability and Risk Assessment. It has been created collaboratively with all City departments and with input from the community. The summary of Climate Ready Ottawa provides an overview of the visions, principles and framework for the strategy.
The strategy is split into five main themes:
- Resilient communities
- Resilient buildings, transportation and water systems
- Natural environment and parklands
- Extreme weather preparedness and response
- Cross-cutting actions that deal with more than one of the themes above
Climate Ready Ottawa is a long-term strategy that will guide action and investment that transition Ottawa to a resilient city by 2050. Once input has been provided on the long-term strategy, a short-term implementation plan that prioritizes specific actions will be developed. Although the City has many initiatives underway, Climate Ready Ottawa identifies new policies, programs and actions to build Ottawa’s resiliency to a changing climate.
Preparing for climate change will require everyone to take action. Climate Ready Ottawa identifies actions that support individuals, communities, businesses and organizations, as well as where more support is needed from other levels of government.
Survey
Have your say on the draft strategy by completing the survey by May 21.
The results of the survey will help us to:
- Identify which actions the City should take first.
- Make it easier for Ottawans to prepare for climate change.
The survey is split into questions on each of the five themes listed above. We recommend you read the content linked above before completing the survey.
Open Houses
The open house sessions to review the Draft Climate Resiliency Strategy have been cancelled until further notice. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
