Designing for Resiliency can help to reduce the damages caused by extreme climate-related disasters and can speed up the recovery processs. Many suvivors of climate emergencies are forced to wait for years to put their lives back together.
The fact that our weather patterns are changing is not headline news. The rising frequency and severity of extreme weather events are of growing concern.
Canadians are facing larger disasters on a more frequent basis. There is no doubt that some of these recent and future events are the result of an increasingly unstable climate.