Bridging Scales of Action creates spaces for Canadians to make sense of and help develop indicators for measuring the effectiveness of climate adaptation. By taking stock of what we already track, improving it at home, and sharing what we learn internationally, this effort helps Canadians contribute to the global effort under the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) of the Paris Agreement to understand what a well-adapted world looks like.
How communities prepare for and live with a changing climate — early-warning systems for wildfires and floods, infrastructure built for new extremes, stronger supports for heat and drought. Canadians are already doing it, from Atlantic coasts to the Prairies to the North.
An agreed way of checking progress. How many communities have early warnings for floods? Can people still get safe drinking water in a drought? Simple questions — but the answers tell us whether adaptation is working. Importantly, what gets measured shapes what gets funded and done.
In the international climate negotiations, countries are negotiating the Paris Agreement's collective goal for adaptation known as the GGA. The GGA focuses on enhancing adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience, and reducing vulnerability. In 2025, at COP30 in Belém, countries adopted the first 59 shared indicators for it — hard-won, imperfect, and still evolving. Every country now needs to understand how its own measures relate to the global ones.
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