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Climate Insight

Helping communities build low-carbon, resilient infrastructure

Climate Insight

In the face of Canada’s escalating climate and housing challenges, communities across Canada need easy access to trustworthy data and climate information. Climate Insight is an online platform designed to meet this need. It provides a centralized source for communities to find the tools and data they need to advance low-carbon, resilient housing and infrastructure initiatives in their communities.

About the platform

Climate Insight is a free online platform that empowers communities across Canada with the data and information needed to build low-carbon, resilient housing and infrastructure. It is designed as the go-to destination to find the relevant, actionable data and information needed to understand climate risks and emissions, support decision-making, and find solutions. Climate Insight is designed to meet the needs of housing and infrastructure professionals, and is a key resource for communities feeling the impacts of aging infrastructure and increasing climate risk. Climate Insight is informed by the needs of housing and infrastructure professionals. With user feedback at the heart of the process, the platform’s functionality, features, and content is continuously being updated to better serve communities as they confront the growing challenges of climate change.

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About the Climate Toolkit for Housing and Infrastructure

Climate Insight is part of the Climate Toolkit for Housing and Infrastructure—a suite of free tools, resources, and support services from Housing, Infrastructure, and Communities Canada. This toolkit, which comprises Climate Insight, a Climate Help Desk, and the Climate Ready Infrastructure Service, enables communities across Canada to build environmentally friendly, climate-resilient housing and infrastructure.

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“Climate Insight is a great tool to aid in decision making. Having access to tools, project experiences, and a wider base of knowledge helps local Engineers develop solutions to municipal infrastructure climate change challenges.” 

– Sean Lee, Assistant Director of Engineering, City of Fredericton

“The Solutions Finder is so useable, giving me good options for specific examples. I see the map as a planning tool, and the Solutions Finder as an action tool.” 

– Municipal user

“The library in itself offers so many articles, insights, tools right at my fingertips that will build capacity in my team, since we won’t have to do searches that would take us hours. It is all right there! And knowing that the information has been vetted by ICLEI is a game changer.” 

– Jinny Toffelmire, Environment Team Lead, Town of Okotoks

Climate Insight: A training session

Watch the recording of this online training to learn more about Climate Insight—an online platform that empowers communities across Canada with the data and information they need to build low-carbon, resilient housing and infrastructure. Watch this training session to discover how its various features and capabilities can support your work.

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Climate Insight is funded in part by the Government of Canada. Climate Insight is delivered by ICLEI Canada with support from Housing, Infrastructure, and Communities Canada.

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