Coastal Climate Resilience Collaborative

Establishing a regional Collaborative to strengthen coastal resilience.

Coastal flooding and rising sea levels know no boundaries, with the challenges faced by one community having ripple effects across an entire region. The Coastal Climate Resilience Collaborative (CCRC) brings together local governments, First Nations, regional organizations, and health authorities from across the Pacific North Shore and Sunshine Coast to think regionally—identifying shared resilience priorities, and advancing key climate adaptation initiatives.

About the Initiative

The Coastal Climate Resilience Collaborative brings together local authorities to co-define and prioritize resilience actions and develop shared strategies and coordinated action all while sharing knowledge and resources across jurisdictions.

The initiative, supported by Natural Resources Canada’s Climate-Resilient Coastal Communities Program, leverages cross-border collaboration to strengthen regional resilience and advance the implementation of climate strategies. By translating achievements and key learnings into tools, the CCRC’s impact will be extended, with regions around the country able to follow its lead.

Objectives

Build local and regional climate resilience by facilitating collaboration among local governments, First Nations, regional organizations, and health authorities.
Develop a regional approach to resilience, implementing lessons learned from other regional climate collaboratives.
Address regional coastal climate risks, particularly sea level rise, drought, and extreme weather.
Implement priority adaptation actions, focusing on ecosystem restoration, infrastructure improvements, updated codes, and broad community engagement.
Promote biodiversity and public health by ensuring that adaptation actions enhance ecological and human well-being.

CCRC Partners and Advisors

Community Partners

Partners invited to join the CCRC are staff representatives of local governments and First Nations in the region, who hold responsibility for climate resilience in their professional roles. They represent a diversity of perspectives from across the region. They are working together beyond jurisdictional boundaries to advance coastal resilience—discussing their experiences, reflecting on local challenges, sharing results of existing work, and co-developing shared strategies and coordinated action.

Advisory Group

A group of multidisciplinary experts, including leaders from municipal and regional climate, biodiversity and public health organizations, provide strategic insight, capacity building, and support to guide the CCRC and connect their work to other efforts across coastal British Columbia.

CCRC Project Resources