Where We Build Matters: Land use planning for safety, affordability, and resilience
Where we build matters more now than ever. Land use planning offers pathways to build more resilient communities as climate risks worsen across B.C.
Featured Research
Vital Connections: Linear Critical Infrastructure and Climate Risk in B.C.
B.C.’s infrastructure systems aren’t ready for the risks ahead — but there are practical ways governments and operators can build climate resilience.
Where We Build Matters: Land use planning for safety, affordability, and resilience
Where we build matters more now than ever. Land use planning offers pathways to build more resilient communities as climate risks worsen across B.C.
CleanBC Insights Series
Through research and insights, this series explores how CleanBC is working, what challenges remain, and how today’s choices will shape B.C.’s future.
Explainers
The power of confluence: A guide for integrated flood management for B.C. communities
Turning down the heat: How to better protect your community in extremely hot weather
From ember to inferno: Wildfires in B.C. explained
A tool for tough decisions: rethinking climate change risk assessments
Mapping the future of flood resilience
How to get B.C.’s climate groove back
The cost of cost-benefit analysis in flood adaptation
Gimme shelter: Upzoning for climate risks
Knowledge Highlights
Bridging Science and Land: Climate vulnerability and resilience assessment for northern forest service roads
Indigenous-Led Climate Resilience: Learning from the conservation economy in the Great Bear Rainforest
Post-Wildfire Increases in Creek Flow Are Short-Lived in Syilx Okanagan First Nation
Caring for the ƛ̓əq̓ƛ̓aqtn Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area
Intertidal Restoration as Anti-Colonial Climate Resilience
First Nation Engagement with Flood Mapping: Advocating for Semá:th First Nation flood rights through mapping
Supporting Indigenous Sovereignty Through Kelp Forest Restoration and Monitoring
Supporting Kitasoo Xai’xais Nation’s Cultural and Spiritual Approach to Climate Action
Reflections
Like paddlers in a canoe: Lessons on climate and reciprocity in a PICS summer internship
What I learned about seasonal readiness from inside the health system
How disinformation undermines climate action: Lessons from COP30
What does reconciliation look like in an era of climate turmoil?
Climate Reflections in B.C.’s Southern Interior
Living climate change: Emma Cosman
Living climate change: Caroline Tucker
Living climate change: Rachel Stern
The ability to map floods has never been better… so why is flood damage still growing?
Reports
Planning for Collective Ownership of Climate Transition Infrastructure in B.C.
Where We Build Matters: Land use planning for safety, affordability, and resilience
Vital Connections: Linear Critical Infrastructure and Climate Risk in B.C.
Pathways to Accelerating Household Clean Technology Adoption across British Columbia
Sustainable and Affordable Housing: Strategies, innovations, and policy directions
Maximizing Public Funds: Examining the fiscal efficiency of climate policy in B.C.
Climate Policy as Territorial Development
Positioning British Columbia’s Energy System for Decarbonization and Increased Competitiveness