Climate Change & the Environment

Climate adaptation platforms

Here's what the 2025 Canadian election parties are promising.

Liberal

  • Provide funding for low- and middle-income households, including renters, to adopt heat pumps and energy efficiency upgrades

    "Funding home retrofits and lowering utility bills while making it easier for low- and middle-income households, including renters, to adopt heat pumps and energy efficiency upgrades including insulation upgrades, heat pump installation, and window replacements;" — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14

  • Provide funding to help households protect against floods, wildfires, and other extreme weather events with home repairs and improvements

    "Lowering household risks to floods and wildfires, directly helping Canadian families to protect against floods, wildfires, and other extreme weather events. This will help with funding oriented towards adaptation measures such as repairing or replacing your roof, installing a sump pump, or sealing cracks in your foundations;" — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14

  • Have big polluters pay for household improvements, using a reformed carbon credit market

    "A Mark Carney government will use a reformed carbon credit market to finance these climate conscious choices, meaning that big polluters, not taxpayers, will pay." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14

  • Provide a $500M top-up for the Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund to help strengthen community infrastructure against disasters
  • Invest in Parks Canada's disaster response capabilities, including expanding wildfire response teams, clearing debris and using controlled burns, creating evacuation plans, and updating building codes

    "Improving Parks Canada’s disaster response capabilities, having learned lessons from what happened in Jasper, Alberta, last year, and the devastation experienced by the local economy and the surrounding nature and wildlife. We will invest to ensure our national parks have a well-resourced response force including expanding and equipping Parks Canada’s wildfire response teams with additional training and modern firefighting equipment to meet emerging wildfire threats. We will increase investment in FireSmart programs, including strategic debris clearing and controlled burns; ensure comprehensive evacuation planning for all communities within national parks, developed in collaboration with local and Indigenous partners; update building codes and infrastructure standards for all new constructions in national parks, ensuring climate-resilient design that accounts for future wildfire and climate risks." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-22

  • Create a Youth Climate Corps pilot to provide paid skills training for young people to respond to climate emergencies, support recovery, and build community resilience

    "Establish a Youth Climate Corps pilot which will provide paid skills training for young Canadians to quickly respond to climate emergencies, support recovery, and strengthen resilience in communities across the country. This is our moment to act boldly, prepare for the emergencies we know are coming, and empower the next generation to lead the fight for our future." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-22

  • Ensure federally-supported housing is not built in areas that are at high risk for floods and wildfires

    "Build federal homes in ways that reduce the risk of costly damages. To protect homeowners and renters from costly flood and wildfire risks, federally supported housing will not be built in areas that are at high risk for floods and wildfires. Housing will be built in safer locations, reducing homeowners’ exposure to costly risks and protecting their health and wellbeing." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-23

  • Stand up a high-risk flood insurance programme by April 2026

    "Stand up Canada’s high-risk flood insurance program by April 2026 to support homeowners to reduce their exposure to future climate risk. We will expedite work with provinces, territories, and industry to finalize this low-cost program." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-23

We don't have any Conservative policies on Climate adaptation.

Bloc

  • Exiger des réinvestissements immédiats et structurants dans le Fonds d’atténuation et d’adaptation en matière de catastrophes
  • Doubler l’émission d’obligations vertes et de rediriger les nouvelles sommes investies par les épargnants dans l’adaptation climatique

    Le Bloc proposera au fédéral de doubler l’émission d’obligations vertes et de rediriger les nouvelles sommes investies par les épargnants plus spécifiquement dans l’adaptation climatique.

  • Protéger les maisons des Québécois face aux catastrophes naturelles récurrentes en exigeant du fédéral un programme de réassurance

    Le Bloc Québécois travaillera à protéger les maisons des Québécois en exigeant du fédéral un programme de réassurance, permettant à tous de jouir d’une assurance à prix raisonnable face aux catastrophes naturelles récurrentes.

  • Proposer d’augmenter substantiellement le financement de la Stratégie nationale d’adaptation et de transférer au Québec sa part

NDP

  • Establish a national wildfire fighting force

    "We will establish a national wildfire fighting force that can be deployed across the country to protect communities on the frontlines of climate disasters." — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19

  • Scale up long-term funding for climate resilient infrastructure

    "Research from the Canadian Climate Institute shows that every dollar invested in adaptation can save up to $15 in future disaster costs—so we’ll scale up long-term funding for infrastructure that keeps people safe." — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19

  • Include disaster resilience in the building code, and keep new buildings out of high-risk areas

    "And we’ll make sure new buildings are kept out of high-risk areas, with disaster resilience built into Canada’s building code." — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19

  • Update the National Building Code to include cooling requirements and safe maximum indoor temperature limits
We don't have any Green policies on Climate adaptation.

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