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• Define climate adaptation, and its relationship to climate change impacts and other related responses.
• Define hazards and risks, with examples that prompt the link between adaptation and climate change impacts.
• Develop a basic understanding of adaptation and its relationship to Indigenous perspectives on the environment and climate change.
• Identify how the vision of a climate-resilient Canada connects to the Public Sector Values and Ethics Code’s values of stewardship, integrity, and excellence.
• Explain how and why every public servant has a role to play in building resilience and adaptation.
• Give examples of climate adaptation solutions available to meet Canada’s climate ambitions.
• Demonstrate a basic understanding of climate adaptation strategies, including Canada’s targets and pathways.
• Identify specific climate adaptation strategies appropriate to Canada’s various geographic regions.
• Demonstrate a basic understanding of Canada’s National Adaptation Strategy, including its vision for a climate-resilient Canada and the principles that guide it.
• Explain the challenge and importance of measuring progress on climate resilience.
• Explain how climate change impacts and adaptation priorities relate to your work.

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This course introduces the core challenges presented by the climate crisis, alongside the vision and vocabulary for transformative solutions in both mitigating greenhouse gas emissions as well as adapting to the changing climate. With reconciliation as its framework, this course also weaves Indigenous knowledges and climate leadership.

While it was designed and built for Canadian federal public servants, this material represents key learnings relevant for all of us. The course encourages reflection on how your work affects the climate and the changing climate affects your work: you are invited to consider this in the context of whatever personal, professional, or community circumstances are relevant to you.

The course was designed by Environment and Climate Change Canada's Strategic Environmental and Economic Analysis Secretariat, to support all public servants to integrate climate, nature and economic considerations into all our decisions. As you work through the course, we warmly invite you to consider how you can bring a climate-aware perspective to your own professional and personal activities.

Climate change is the challenge of our times, and the actions we take today will affect the scale of the impacts for our children and their children - Please consider sharing the course widely!

Thank you for your efforts to learn and share in the vision for a resilient, net-zero, nature-positive Canada!