The Climate Change Adaptation Practice Guide is designed to serve as a reference for inspiration and ideas to help planners and related professionals integrate climate adaptation into practice. It includes four main sections to help planners understand and apply planning interventions to foster more climate resilient communities.

• Climate Change and Planning: This section relates planning practices to climate change adaptation and identifies the legislative framework and enabling policies for adaptation planning in Ontario.
• Climate Hazards and Adaptation Planning: This section provides an overview of key climate hazards worsened by climate change and related adaptation planning measures that can be considered to manage associated risks.
• Planning Interventions Supporting Climate Adaptation: This section provides an overview of specific interventions planners can use to advance adaptation, including case studies that illustrate how these interventions have been successfully implemented across Ontario.
• Resource Guide: This section includes a curated collection of resources intended to support planners in applying the information in this guide.

Using this guide, Ontario planners can draw valuable insights from climate actions undertaken elsewhere in the province while empowering communities to create interventions that resonate with their values and needs.

This resource was developed by the Ontario Professional Planners Institute and the Climate Risk Institute through the Ontario Resource Centre for Climate Adaptation (ORCCA)—a pilot initiative led by ICLEI Canada and supported by the Ontario Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks, alongside financial support from the Government of Canada through the federal Department of Environment and Climate Change Canada.