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Canada's National Adaptation Strategy: A roadmap

Most Canadians believe climate change is an urgent crisis and are feeling its impacts already. The federal government will soon develop Canada’s first-ever national adaptation strategy and our experts have ideas to make it effective.

June 16, 2021
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