Mobilizing private capital for climate adaptation infrastructure

This scoping paper is part of a series that explores specific challenges and opportunities in the development and implementation of adaptation policy  in Canada. Infrastructure is essential to Canadians’ well-being and to the country’s economic activity, but increasingly acute climate impacts pose serious threats. 

The paper concludes that in addition to providing capital to make the necessary investments, the private sector could help build adaptation infrastructure with greater speed and scale, and in some instances more sophistication, while sharing some of the risk.