• October 14, 2024
• Frank Came
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• Building Resilience, Research

Aside from water, concrete is the most-used material in the world, with about 14 billion cubic metres being used every year. Of that, 40% of that is used to build places for people to live.

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• September 24, 2024
• Frank Came
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• Building Resilience, Opinion, Research

Flooding in Montréal, and other Canadian cities, is becoming a more frequent occurrence.

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• September 3, 2024
• Frank Came
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• Building Resilience, News, Opinion, Research

As intense heat breaks records around the world, a little-reported fact offers some hope for cooling down cities: Under even the most intense periods of extreme heat, some city blocks never experience heat wave temperatures.

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• September 2, 2024
• Frank Came
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• Finance, Opinion

Climate change will bring new weather patterns that are beyond emergency managers’ current playbooks, which are filled with protocols honed by past experience. The capacity to adapt will be essential when those playbooks can’t handle compounding disasters that few had imagined.

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