Update government policies and build partnerships to improve local climate resilience
It means finding effective and affordable ways to slow down climate change and build more resilient communities to prepare for its effects.
Update government policies and build partnerships to improve local climate resilience
• Modernize the Building Code to better equip homes and buildings to be better able to withstand extreme weather events. This could include affordable adaptation measures such as requiring backwater valves in new homes that are at risk of backflow, which would significantly reduce the impacts of basement flooding.
• Review the Municipal Disaster Recovery Assistance program to encourage municipalities to incorporate climate resilience improvements when repairing or replacing damaged infrastructure after a natural disaster. Since the Municipal Disaster Recovery Assistance program was launched in 2016,over $2.6 million has been provided to 11 municipalities.
• Consult on tax policy options to support homeowners in adopting measures to protect their homes against extreme weather events,such as ice and wind storms and home flooding.
• Review land use planning policies and laws to update policy direction on climate resilience. This will help make the way our communities are planned and designed more responsive and adaptive to changing weather conditions, such as improving the way that stormwater is managed.
• Build resilience in the province’s critical infrastructure, through better technology as well as back-up generation and energy storage options, so that our vital services and infrastructure, such as hospitals, can better withstand and remain operational during extreme weather events.
• Support improvements to existing winter roads where they may be required to replace roads that are deteriorating as a result of changing weather conditions and shortened interseasons, and develop a strategy to enhance all-season road connections to northern communities.
• Continue to support programs and partnerships intended to make the agriculture and food sectors more resilient to current and future climate impacts. We will support on-farm soil and water quality programming and work with partners to improve agricultural management practices.
Ontario will reduce its emissions by 30% below 2005 levels by 2030.
This target aligns Ontario with Canada’s 2030 target under the Paris Agreement.
This is Ontario’s proposed target for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, which fulfills our commitment under the Cap and Trade Cancellation Act, 2018.
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