Data Catalogue

Climate Change Adaptation Plans of Local Governments

Data purpose: To provide awareness of climate change adaptation plans of local governments.

Data description: Climate change adaptation planning enhances a community’s resilience to climate change impacts by reducing vulnerabilities and risks. For local governments creating and implementing an adaptation plan will increase their adaptation resiliency and enhance their adaptive capacity.

The database of local governments climate change plans provides information on status of development of climate change adaptation plans. Currently 62% of local governments in New Brunswick have completed a climate change adaptation plan, of which:

• 44% have plans that cover a portion of their territorial entity, and
• 18% have plans that cover their entire local government entity.

The database provides information on:

1. LGs with no plan
2. LGs with a plan covering partial territory
3. LGs with a plan covering their whole territory

Also, the database provides access to publicly available local governments climate change adaptation plans which includes risks and vulnerability assessments and adaptation implementation actions.

Update requirements: Yearly

Restriction on use: Unrestricted

License: Open Government Licence

Georeferencing: datum - NAD83(CSRS), map projection - NB Stereographic Double, (EPSG 2953)

Data formats: ESRI file geodatabase, ESRI shape file

Data coverage and size: Provincial coverage

Responsible Agency: Department of Environment & Local Government