Assessing Climate Change Risk and Resilience in the Yukon
The risk assessment will be repeated on an
ongoing basis to inform future actions in Our
Clean Future. In Our Clean Future, the
Government of Yukon commits to assess
climate hazards and vulnerabilities to those
hazards across Yukon every three to four years
between 2020 and 2030 to prioritize climate
change adaptation actions. This current
assessment also provides a starting point for
informing how the Yukon can achieve its
adaptation target, as set out in Our Clean
Future: "by 2030, Yukon will be highly resilient
to the impacts of climate change."
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