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Scientists at Canada’s National Research Council suggest ways building codes can be updated to adapt infrastructure to a shifting climate.

The BC government has taken steps to prepare for a major earthquake, investing millions of dollars in an early warning system and spending billions to seismically retrofit schools and infrastructure. But it has shown little interest in dealing with thousands of privately owned buildings largely constructed before the 1970s, which do not meet earthquake safety standards.

'While prevention measures such as dikes and floodways are not cheap — often running into the hundreds of millions — there is a strong economic case to be made for investing up front,' said Paul Kovacs, executive director of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction...

'Funding for disaster risk reduction and disaster preparedness is not very 'sexy' for donors - global, domestic and private,' says Jouni Hemberg of FinnChurchAid...

Environment Minister Peter Kent said that 'the improvements will allow Environment Canada to better notify Canadians about severe weather events, which lead to deaths, injuries and millions of dollars of property and infrastructure damage in the country each year...'

Francis Scarpaleggia, a MP for Lac-Saint-Louis looks at the many issues facing Canada regarding water management in the country. He advocates for a national policy to legislate both the environment and the movement of water to prepare and adapt for climate change...

'Inuit approach climate change not only as a crisis, but as an opportunity to adapt, to find new techniques for living sustainably within the natural world' says Zacharias Kunuk, producer and co-director with environmental scientist Ian J. Mauro, of 'Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change' launched online today...