A lot of municipalities already have something called a Climate Action Plan, an adaptation strategy, or a vulnerability assessment sitting on a shelf. The problem is rarely the diagnosis, but rather what happens after. Recommendations that don’t connect to a capital plan, a funding source, or an engineering feasibility study tend to stall exactly where budgets are tightest. In a year when every municipal budget line is under scrutiny, a plan that can’t be built or funded isn’t an asset — it’s a sunk cost.
Our Community Planning for Climate Change Program was built to solve that specific problem. It starts with a risk and vulnerability assessment grounded in predictive modeling and local data, but it doesn’t stop there — priority assets move directly into engineering feasibility review, cost estimation, and capital planning integration, so council isn’t just told what’s at risk, but what it will take, and cost, to fix it. Most importantly, community and Indigenous engagement is built into the process from the start.
| That structure matters more than ever given where funding is flowing. In August 2026, the federal government and FCM announced $34.2 million for 141 local climate adaptation projects through the Green Municipal Fund, which continues to support climate-ready plans and processes for communities across the country. Programs like these favour applications backed by real engineering and cost data, which is exactly the kind of output our program is designed to produce. |
It’s also, frankly, the program we get asked about most, and one of the things that most clearly sets our Earth & Environment team apart. Instead of coordinating separately with an environmental consultant, an engineering firm, and a grant writer, municipalities get one integrated team guiding the project from initial risk assessment all the way to a funded, buildable plan.
Our Firm was built by people who come from the field, which means the plans we write are plans we’re confident we, or another qualified team, could actually execute. If your community is heading into a budget cycle or a grant deadline with an outdated plan, or no plan at all, let’s talk.
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We would love to hear more about you and the project that you have in mind.
“We think about sustainability in terms of hundreds of years.”
Dwight Crouse, RPF
Director, Sustainability & Analytics
dwight.crouse@priengineering.com