Local Leadership For Climate Adaptation Grant

Up to $1 Million Available for Climate Adaptation Improvements

Funding INformation

1. Adaptation in Action

   • Aims to increase the implementation of equitable climate adaptation actions.
   • Funding available for both implementation projects and feasibility studies until August 14, 2024.

2. Climate-Ready Plans and Processes

   • Focuses on integrating equitable and inclusive climate resilience into municipal plans, processes, and management systems, such as asset management systems planning.
   • Funding available starting Fall 2024.

3. Financing Adaptation

   • Encourages the use of new financing models by Canadian municipalities to finance climate adaptation capital projects.
   • Funding available starting Spring 2025.

Purposes

• Community Development
• Reduce Pollution
• Improve Energy Efficiency

Adaptation in Action Stream

Eligible Implementation Projects:

1. Cooling/Warming Infrastructure:

   • Installing, retrofitting, or upgrading public cooling/warming infrastructure to reduce community vulnerability to extreme temperatures (e.g., designated cooling/warming centres, cooling corridors, naturalized areas).

2. Hazard Exposure Reduction:

   • Incremental operations to use existing assets to reduce hazard exposure during severe events (e.g., running heating/cooling centres) over a period of up to 18 months.

3. Climate-Resilient Design:

   • Incremental costs associated with improving the design of a capital project to incorporate climate-resilient elements.

4. Enhanced Municipal Services:

   • Enhancing municipal service levels to respond to climate risks.

5. Backup Power Installation:

   • Installing backup power on critical infrastructure/facilities.

6. Infrastructure Relocation:

   • Relocating municipal infrastructure to safer areas.

7. Upgrading Public Structures:

   • Installing, retrofitting, or upgrading public structures or critical infrastructure for municipal service provision to reduce risks associated with climate hazards.

8. FireSmart Activities:

   • FireSmart-aligned vegetative management or vegetation-based wildfire risk mitigation activities.

9. Flood Protection:

   • Installing, retrofitting, or upgrading structural flood protection or stormwater collection works (e.g., sponge parks, flood conveyance works, pump stations, flood walls, flood boxes, debris catchment structures, jetties, detention ponds).

10. Floodplain Restoration:

    • Dam, dike, or channel decommissioning and floodplain restoration.

11. Wetland Restoration:

    • Wetland restoration or construction.

12. Aquifer Recharge:

    • Rehabilitating important aquifer recharge areas.

13. Green Infrastructure:

    • Installing, retrofitting, or upgrading green infrastructure (e.g., rain gardens, bioswales, green roofs, permeable pavement).

14. Shoreline Rehabilitation:

    • Restoring natural shoreline protection through natural infrastructure, beach nourishment, and/or bank stabilization.

15. Slope Stabilization:

    • Slope stabilization projects that reduce the risk of debris flow, particularly in fire-impacted areas.

Eligible Feasibility Studies:

1. Feasibility Studies for Climate Adaptation Projects:
   • Conducting studies to determine the viability and potential impacts of proposed climate adaptation projects.