climate change adaptation plan
City of Fredericton
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City of Fredericton Climate Change Adaptation Plan (BARC Program)
Through the Building Adaptive and Resilient Communities (BARC) Program we worked with the City of Fredericton in completing Milestones 1 and 2 of the Program. This initiative began by assisting the City in recruiting a 13-person Adaptation Team that would lead the BARC Program initiative locally. The Adaptation Team was made up of individuals from a range of different municipal departments, particularly different types of engineers. We prepared a climate science report for the community, which was used to identify 33 impacts that could affect that City’s built, social, and environmental systems. From there, we assisted the City’s project lead to undertake a corporate vulnerability and risk assessment process with the Adaptation Team. Outputs from this assessment indicated a concern for impacts to trees and natural areas, as well as damages to road infrastructure and City buildings from climate change. Fredericton is currently in the process of completing Milestone 3.
About BARC
Many will know BARC as a national capacity building program for municipalities focused on adaptation and resilience. Well over 100 Canadian municipalities, large and small, have used BARC’s framework, tools and resources to guide their adaptation and resilience building efforts. However, BARC has grown to become much more than a program. BARC is the window through which ICLEI engages in adaptation and resilience policy development, planning, applied research, resource development, capacity building, networking and much more.
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