BARC Webinar
Evolving adaptation strategies to meet community needsBARC Webinar: Evolving adaptation strategies to meet community needs
Wednesday November 19, 2025 | 2-3 PM ET | Online
Communities across Canada are facing floods, wildfires, and extreme heat, making climate adaptation an immediate priority. The updated Building Adaptive and Resilient Communities (BARC) framework offers a clearer, more flexible approach that aligns resilience planning with pressing needs like housing, affordability, infrastructure renewal, and equity. Watch the replay from November 19, 2025, to learn what’s new, how the updated tools and approaches strengthen adaptation planning, and how the refreshed BARC framework can support communities at any stage of their resilience journey. This recording is available for anyone who could not attend the live session.
Replay and Presentation
- Welcome and land acknowledgement (00:00:00)
- Introduction to BARC (00:01:37)
- The five BARC Milestones (00:03:28)
- History and evolution of BARC (00:05:50)
- What’s new in BARC (00:12:02)
- How equity and reconciliation lenses are embedded in the new guide (00:18:40)
- How to use the new Guide (00:23:57)
- How to join BARC (00:31:45)
- Question and answers (00:34:05)
Building Adaptive and Resilient Communities (BARC) Guide
This webinar highlights the new features of the updated BARC framework and shows how to use the BARC Guide, which provides a comprehensive overview of the framework and details the activities and expected outcomes at each milestone, from risk assessment and implementation to monitoring and evaluating results.
About BARC
BARC is a proven climate adaptation framework for local action. Developed by ICLEI Canada with and for Canadian communities, it provides a clear, flexible five-milestone methodology to build adaptive and resilient communities in a changing climate. Recognized as Canada’s go-to adaptation program, BARC drives climate resilience from early planning through to implementation and monitoring. Above all, BARC meets communities where they are, whether they are just starting, struggling with implementation, or ready to update an existing plan.
Reach us
iclei-canada@iclei.org
Suite 204
401 Richmond St. W
Toronto, ON
M5V 3A8
We respectfully acknowledge that ICLEI Canada’s work happens across Turtle Island which has traditionally been and is home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples since time immemorial.