Canada launches first-ever national climate adaptation strategy

Indigenous fisherman Mike Diabo drills a hole through ice to check its thickness on a lake in the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg Reserve in Quebec, Canada [File: Blair Gable/Reuters]

Canada has launched its first-ever national strategy to help communities adapt to increasingly severe weather caused by climate change.

Increased flooding, wildfires and melting permafrost are among the issues the government will seek to address under the strategy, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault explained in a press conference on Tuesday.