{"id":21010,"date":"2019-12-02T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T07:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=21010"},"modified":"2019-12-02T15:51:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T15:51:28","slug":"canada-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/news\/canada-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"<Canada Climate Change>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s building rules are being rewritten due to climate change.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>From how concrete is mixed for road construction, to roofing standards enabling\u00a0buildings to withstand stronger storms and plans to help homeowners manage increased flooding, Canada&#8217;s building rules are being rewritten due to climate change, according to briefing notes for a senior government official seen by CBC News.<\/p>\n<p>If no changes are made to the way we build, infrastructure failures linked to climate change could cost Canada $300 billion over the next decade, according to estimates cited in the partially redacted documents.<\/p>\n<p>With Canada warming twice as fast as the rest of the world, according to an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/technology\/canada-warming-at-twice-the-global-rate-leaked-report-finds-1.5079765\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0official report<\/a>\u00a0leaked this month, analysts say it&#8217;s crucial to design infrastructure that protects residents from extreme weather while reducing carbon dioxide emissions.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the new rules for construction in the era of climate change are nearly ready, while others remain in the planning stages, according to a briefing note prepared for the deputy minister of infrastructure in 2018 and accessed by CBC News under freedom of information laws.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The development of building and infrastructure codes and guidelines in this country is a somewhat ponderous process,&#8221; the high-level briefing states.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;More problematically, the code development process has also been very slow to address the very significant challenges posed by climate change for Canada&#8217;s buildings and core public infrastructure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/canada-building-code-climate-change-resilience-1.5092732\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read about some of the changes and considerations<\/a> under discussion for buildings and crucial\u00a0infrastructure in Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s building rules are being rewritten due to climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":21011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[1983,529,99,1385,744,1984],"class_list":["post-21010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-building-rules","tag-canada","tag-ceo","tag-ceo-northam","tag-climate-change","tag-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21010"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21030,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21010\/revisions\/21030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}