Program
Acting Today for Our Shared Tomorrow
Join us in Toronto for four days of panels, workshops, dynamic city-wide tours, exhibits, plenaries, side events, and networking opportunities.
Co-designed by adaptation experts from across Canada, our program is designed to break down silos and build meaningful connections. Six interconnected themes ground discussions in real-world action, equity, and innovation. From systems change to on-the-ground solutions, these themes explore the complexity of climate risk and resilience in Canada while highlighting diverse leadership, bold ideas, and the partnerships needed to move adaptation forward across all sectors and communities.
Information about select programming for remote participation will be available in January 2026.
Conference Themes
Explore our preliminary themes and check back for updates
In addition to the themes outlined below, the following cross-cutting themes will feature across a variety of sessions and program areas:
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Indigenous ways of knowing and governance
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Equity, diversity, and inclusion
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Climate data and digital tools
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Policy levers and regulatory mechanisms
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Resilience financing
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Capacity building and local leadership
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Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Navigating Complexity: Risks, Impacts, and Urgency
Explores Canada’s evolving climate risk landscape, considering topics such as regional and sectoral vulnerabilities, the role of climate data in decision-making, understanding and assessing risk, navigating uncertainty, and more.
Power in Partnerships: Co-creating Adaptation
Looks at collaboration, reconciliation, and shared leadership, including topics such as working together in the face of multiple and evolving crises, coordinating policy and action across jurisdictions and sectors, weaving together Indigenous knowledge and Western science, collaborative approaches for financing adaptation, and more.
Designing Solutions: Adaptation in Practice
Highlights practical tools, models, and scalable projects that are driving adaptation forward on the ground, including topics such as resilient infrastructure and housing, nature-based solutions, emerging investment practices, and more.
Equity at the Centre: Just and Inclusive Adaptation
Considers adaptation through an equity and justice-based lens, exploring topics such as systemic barriers, accessible and community-designed solutions, how equity can be integrated into all levels of action, and more.
Adaptive Leadership: Systems for Change
Reflects on the systems and leadership needed for long-term resilience, including topics such as local and regional leadership, legal and regulatory frameworks, learning from failure, measurement and accountability, the conditions needed for transformative change, and more.
Outside the Box: Innovative and Creative Approaches
Presents bold and creative approaches to adaptation, including topics such as intergenerational dialogue and storytelling, innovative technologies, art, design, and cultural expression as tools for adaptation, building a culture of resilience across sectors and jurisdictions, and more.
