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Mapping Climate Readiness for the Social Service Sector in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (DTES)

Launched in 2025 in partnership with SFU鈥檚 Community-Engaged Research Initiative (CERi), 51社区黑料Climate Innovation, and VanCity Community Foundation, we're co-creating a strategic climate readiness Roadmap to support adaptive capacity building with and for residents and organizations in Vancouver's DTES.

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Integrated Climate Action for British Columbia Communities Initiative (ICABCCI)

From 2018 to 2021, the Integrated Climate Action for British Columbia Communities Initiative (ICABCCI) partnered with 13 local governments across British Columbia, ranging from small to large, and from rural to urban, at all stages of climate action. The goal was to collaboratively advance and test the low carbon resilience approach in planning and decision-making.

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The BC Atlas of Disaster

Inspired by Rebuild by Design鈥檚 Atlas of Disaster, the BC Atlas of Disaster seeks to visualize and map climate disaster impacts in BC in order to equip communities and decision-makers with detailed information that promotes proactive climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction and climate justice. The BC Atlas of Disaster is a collaboration between UBC's Disaster Resilience Research Network, UBC鈥檚 Centre for Climate Justice, ACT, and Rebuild by Design.

One Okanagan Bioregion

One Okangan works with and for local Indigenous and community-led partners, drawing upon and advancing best available research-for-impact in areas related to innovative governance, ecosystem-based monitoring and approaches, regenerative enterprise across sectors, innovative finance, and community-centred climate innovation. The goal is to accelerate experimentation, learning, and best practice across the Salmon Nation bioregion.

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Biodiversity-Led Nature-based Solutions

ACT has been working since 2017 to develop research insights into ways climate adaptation can benefit biodiversity, and vice versa. Nature-based solutions (NbS) are emerging worldwide as a low carbon, resilient option in urban and rural planning, and it's important that we begin to consider how these approaches can also be designed to benefit species struggling to survive and adapt under a changing climate. 

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Coastal Cities at Risk

From 2012-2016, Metro Vancouver was one of four international metropolitan areas, along with Manila, Lagos, and Bangkok, that took part in the $12.5 million research Coastal Cities at Risk network that ACT contributed to, funded by the Canadian International Development Research Council鈥檚 International Research Initiative on Adaptation to Climate Change (IRIACC).

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Columbia River Treaty

From 2015 to 2017, ACT completed significant work on the implications of climate change for the future of the Columbia River Treaty. Our research explored the initial intent of the Treaty and its success to date, its costs to Columbia Basin residents and ecosystems, and new influences the signatories should consider.

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Areas of Focus

ACT was founded to study nine core topics that require climate change adaptation planning in Canada. Each topic was assigned a senior policy author and a team of graduate researchers, and featured research into climate change challenges and policy responses as well as workshops and other engagement and outreach. 

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