THE CANADIAN URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL
HEALTH RESEARCH CONSORTIUM (CANUE)
Press release
Montreal, February 14th, 2025 – Over the next two years, the Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE) will receive funding from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ (FCM) Local Leadership for Climate Adaptation program. With an investment of $30 million in the LLCA program, the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, and Rebecca Bligh, President of the FCM, want to highlight adaptation in action within local governments and establish collaborations for long-term success.
The funded project aims to assist and build capacity for municipalities to fold health and health equity considerations into their climate adaptation plans. Specifically, the project will allow municipalities to learn about how they can develop climate adaptation plans that maximize the health and health equity benefits of their residents. Through a variety of capacity building activities, the project will increase awareness about the health and health equity risks that climate change presents and on the strategies that can be used to integrate those considerations into local plans to fight climate change and create more resilient communities.
CANUE will introduce municipalities to its HealthyPlan.City tool, which helps them identify the neighbourhoods and populations that are at greatest risk from climate-related impacts. CANUE will also organize peer-to-peer webinars that showcase leaders in this field and convene inter-sectoral workshops with municipalities that want to develop climate adaptation plans that maximize health and health equity benefits for their communities.
For more information: FCM press release
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For more information on our first webinar.