Creating a More Resilient Yellowknife

Climate Change Impacts and Municipal Decision Making

Like many northern communities, the City of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, has witnessed impacts on municipal infrastructure that are in part attributable to climate change. As a result, the City undertook a project aimed at developing the tools, capacity, and decision-making processes necessary to systematically address community climate change impacts as they emerge. This final project report includes information about Yellowknife and climate change; the results of a series of climate change adaptation workshops held for municipal decision makers; and recommendations to help the City become a model of climate change adaptation decision making.