

Despite our efforts to reduce carbon pollution, we need to ensure Vancouver is prepared for the impacts of a changing global climate.
What is climate change adaptation?
Adapting to climate change means understanding what climate we are likely to experience in the future, and creating proactive plans that take advantage of opportunities and prepare for impacts. This is different than mitigation, which refers to our efforts to limit climate change by reducing greenhouse gases.
What's happening
Planning Vancouver Together to 2050 and beyond
We’ve launched the process to develop the Vancouver (City-wide) Plan that will guide our city to 2050 and beyond.
Share your voice and sign up for updates
What we're doing to prepare for climate change
In 2012, Council adopted the Climate Change Adaptation Strategy to ensure a vibrant, liveable, and resilient city in the face of climate change.
The strategy was updated in 2018 to incorporate the most recent science, best practices, and new focus areas.
Read the updated Climate Change Adaption Strategy PDF file (9 MB)
Future changes to our climate and environment
By 2050, we are expecting hotter, drier summers, wetter falls and springs, and warmer winters. Extreme weather events will be more frequent and intense, and sea level rise is anticipated to be 1 meter by 2100.