Extreme Heat
Three Steps to Cost-Effective Home Heat Protection
Extreme temperatures and heat waves already occur across Canada and will become more extreme in the future. These easy-to-follow heat protection guidelines will help residents living in houses reduce their risk to extreme heat exposure. Download your copy and distribute freely across your community or municipality.
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Three Steps to Cost-Effective Apartment and Condo Heat Protection
Extreme temperatures and heat waves already occur across Canada and will become more extreme in the future. These easy-to-follow heat protection guidelines will help residents living in apartments and condos reduce their risk to extreme heat exposure. Download your copy and distribute freely across your community or municipality.
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Flooding
Three Steps to Cost-Effective Home Flood Protection
Intense rainfall events combined with aging municipal infrastructure, increased urbanization and a lack of flood protection measures at the household level have resulted in losses in billions of dollars for Canada’s insurance companies, governments, homeowners, landlords and tenants over the past decade. The Intact Centre has developed a list of top actions Canadians can take around their home to reduce their flood risk.
Key Flood-Resilience Measures for Commercial Real Estate in Canada
The commercial real estate industry can implement flood-resilience measures to reduce property damage, business disruptions and potential flood-related injury and loss of life stemming from extreme rainfall events.
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Wildfire
Three Steps to a Cost-Effective FireSmart™ Home
FireSmart™ Canada leads the development of resources and programs designed to empower the public and increase community resilience to wildfire across Canada. The Intact Centre has collaborated with FireSmart Canada™ to create a summary of the top actions residents can take to reduce home wildfire risk.
Three Features of a Wildfire-Ready Community
The Intact Centre has developed best practice guidance that communities can integrate into their wildfire risk management plans to limit damage and disruption from wildfire events and strengthen emergency preparedness.
Nature
Three Ways to Reduce Climate Risk: Working with Nature at Home
Wildfires, flooding, and extreme heat – these perils are threatening Canada’s residential housing market, and homeowners, in ways not imagined just a few years ago. The good news is there are ways residents can protect their property by working with nature to limit the impacts of extreme weather – think planting a rain garden to absorb water and avoid basement flooding, or using shade trees to limit direct sunlight from heating a home and allowing for cost savings on air conditioning. Download your copy and distribute freely across your community or municipality.
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Capital Markets
Due to escalating impacts of climate change and extreme weather events, investors must incorporate climate risk into portfolio management. This infographic provides a framework that will act as a) a template for companies to self-evaluate their management of physical climate risk, and b) an industry-wide benchmark to compare company efforts that reduce risks within an industry sector.
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