Ontario Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Act, 2025
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- Creates a Strategic Action Plan, due within two years, to protect Ontarians from climate change risks like floods, heat, storms and wildfires
- Establishes an arm's-length Ontario Climate Adaptation Fund to finance adaptation and resilience projects
- Sets up an Ontario Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Resource Centre for climate data, research and public advice
- Creates a Whole-of-Government Climate Adaptation Co-ordination Secretariat to align policy across all ministries and agencies
- Requires the Legislature to review the strategic action plan every two years starting four years after enactment
- Mandates specific measures on flood mapping, extreme heat cooling, wildfire response, infrastructure codes and farmland protection
- Proposes an Ontario Youth Climate Corps offering wages and education support for climate-related work