INTRODUCTION
Since 2025, the City of Dauphin has been developing a Climate Adaptation Plan. The City has long recognized how a changing climate affects our infrastructure, services, and the people who live here. To prepare for current and future challenges – such as floods, droughts, heat waves, heavy rainfall, and intense winds – the City is creating a Climate Adaptation Plan, to learn about how the impacts of climate change are affecting the community and identify actions that will reduce the risk of these impacts.
The process to develop the Climate Adaptation Plan will prioritize climate hazards and identify adaptation actions. Climate hazards are a climate-related event that can put infrastructure, natural ecosystems, and social systems at risk and produce negative consequences. Climate adaptation actions are initiatives and strategies created to respond to actual or anticipated impacts of climate change that minimize the effects and reduces the risks of climate change on infrastructure, natural ecosystems, and social systems. Adaptation actions may include responses to extreme heat, such as maintaining and increasing the urban tree canopy, creating cooling centres, and developing heat response plans. Some examples of adaptation actions in response to heavy rainfall may include expanding stormwater capacity, installing green infrastructure such as rain gardens and bioswales, and incentivizing installations of sump pumps in homes. Engaging with local community members is a critical element of the planning process. Accordingly, we are inviting community members of Dauphin, like yourself, to complete this survey. We want to understand how you have been impacted by climate change, what climate hazards you are experiencing, and which adaptation actions you believe should be prioritized.
Below is a series of questions to help us learn more about the impacts of climate change on you and your community. This will inform the development of the Climate Change Adaptation Plan. Your input will help us build a better understanding of how all community members are impacted by climate change and the potential actions that will help build a more resilient Dauphin for all.
We are grateful for your time and effort to share your input with the City of Dauphin.
