Imagine a Climate Ready future
Before we can build climate-ready communities, we need to imagine what they look like.
That means grounding ourselves in local climate realities, listening to lived experience, learning from community data, and creating a shared picture of what safety, care, and resilience should look like where we live.
When we can name the future we need, we can build a stronger call for the action required to get there.
What could a Climate Ready future look like here?
This is where we start to collectively imagine:
- What does safety look like in a changing climate?
- What would help our neighbourhoods feel more prepared and connected?
- What should local resilience actually include? What does “resilience” mean to you?
- What do we want our governments to protect, support, and invest in?
- How do we address the root causes of climate change?
When we can name the future we need, we can build a stronger call for the action required to get there. Take the survey below to get started!
Explore the climate realities
Explore climate data, local impacts, and resources that can help ground our shared vision in what communities are already facing. This is intentionally a work in progress as we work to build a community archive with everyone who wants to participate.
Explore the Data
ClimateData.ca
What could summer temperatures look like where you live in 2050? How might rainfall, wildfire weather, or extreme heat change over time?
Explore climate projections across Canada through interactive maps, graphs, and climate indicators. ClimateData.ca helps you investigate specific climate variables, compare future climate scenarios, and understand how conditions could change in the places you care about.
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Plan2Adapt
What will climate change feel like in your community? How much warmer, wetter, or drier could your region become over the coming decades?
Unlike ClimateData.ca, which allows you to explore individual climate variables across Canada, Plan2Adapt summarizes projected climate change for communities and regions across British Columbia. Designed for planners, local governments, and decision makers, it compares historical and future climate conditions through maps, graphs, and summary tables to show what long term changes could mean for your region.
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BC Hazard Map
What natural hazards affect your neighbourhood? Could your community face flooding, wildfire, landslides, earthquakes, or tsunamis?
PreparedBC’s interactive Hazard Map helps you explore the hazards that could affect communities across British Columbia. Use it to understand local risks and discover additional resources for specific hazards, including flood, wildfire, and tsunami mapping.
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Climate Change in the Salish Sea Bioregion
How is climate change already reshaping the Salish Sea? What could this region look like in the future?
Explore climate impacts through a bioregional lens with interactive maps focused on the Salish Sea. This resource helps connect climate science to the landscapes, waters, ecosystems, and communities that make this region unique.
Explore the Salish Sea climate maps →
Resilient Coasts for Salmon Atlas
How are our shorelines changing? Where have human activities altered the coast, and what does that mean for salmon habitat?
The Resilient Coasts for Salmon Atlas maps shoreline conditions along eastern Vancouver Island, including shoreline armouring, overwater structures, log accumulation, forage fish habitat, and other coastal features. Explore map layers, community reports, and downloadable datasets to better understand how healthy shorelines support resilient salmon and coastal ecosystems.
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Read the Reports
Resilience Pathways Report
What would it take to build a climate-ready British Columbia? How can communities, governments, researchers, and Indigenous Nations reduce disaster risk together?
The Resilience Pathways Report brings together stories, research, and lessons from practitioners working across British Columbia. Explore case studies and insights on wildfire, flooding, resilient infrastructure, Indigenous leadership, governance, and community resilience.
Read the Resilience Pathways Report →
BC Disaster and Climate Risk & Resilience Assessment
What are British Columbia’s biggest climate risks? Which hazards pose the greatest threats to our communities, infrastructure, ecosystems, and health?
This provincial assessment provides a broad picture of the climate and disaster risks facing B.C. It examines hazards including extreme heat, wildfire, flooding, drought, sea level rise, and earthquakes, helping identify where resilience efforts and investments are needed most.
Read the assessment →
Use the Toolkits
Building Climate Resilience in Rural & Remote Communities
What does climate resilience look like in practice? How are communities adapting to wildfire, flooding, extreme heat, and other climate impacts?
Developed by the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions and partners, this collection of guides, case studies, webinars, and planning resources highlights climate adaptation approaches from rural, remote, and Indigenous communities across British Columbia. Explore examples of resilient infrastructure, community planning, and locally led solutions.
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Build Resilient Neighbourhoods
How can neighbours prepare for heat waves, smoke, and emergencies together? What can your block do before disaster strikes?
Climate readiness is about more than infrastructure. It is also about relationships, care, and connection. These practical guides, worksheets, and conversation tools help neighbours strengthen preparedness, build local networks, and support one another before, during, and after emergencies.
Explore the neighbourhood toolkit →
Looking for more?
Want to explore further? These collections bring together additional maps, datasets, monitoring programs, and research related to the Salish Sea and climate resilience.
Sharing Knowledge in the Salish Sea Ecosystem
Explore additional datasets, scientific resources, monitoring programs, and research related to cumulative effects and ecosystem health in the Salish Sea.
Browse Salish Sea knowledge resources →
Pacific Salmon Foundation Marine Data Centre
Explore additional marine datasets and mapping resources related to salmon, coastal ecosystems, and ocean conditions.
Explore marine data resources →
PreparedBC Know Your Hazards
Find additional hazard information and preparedness resources for communities across British Columbia.
Explore hazard resources →
Ready to turn that vision into a stronger call for action?
Once we can name the future we need, we can more clearly name who should help pay for it and what governments must do next.
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Resilient Coastal Communities
Climate Ready Now! is part of our Resilient Coastal Communities work, which supports communities in building resilience to climate change through collective action, local leadership, and community-driven solutions. Your donation helps communities prepare for climate impacts, strengthen local resilience, and create a more just and sustainable future for the Salish Sea.