Municipal Assets: High-Level Climate Risk Screening

Facilitated by: Matt Delorme, P.Eng. and Emily Cowin, P.Eng.

Full workshop takes place over three sessions: a mix of online and in-person events.

Online Session 1: November 12, 2025, 9 am to 11 am (all participants)
Online Session 2: November 26, 2025, 9 am to 11 am (all participants)

Session 3
(Online - Newfoundland Only): January 23, 2026, 1 pm to 4:30 pm
(In Person - Halifax): January 22, 2026, 1 pm to 4:30 pm
(In Person - Moncton): January 29, 2026, 1 pm to 4:30 pm


Purpose:
Climate resilience is no longer optional. It is essential for funding, planning, and protecting your community. Municipalities are already feeling the effects of heavier rainfall, summer droughts, stronger winds, and rising storm surges. To secure funding and build long-term success, you need more than a one-time report: you need the skills to understand, track, and act on evolving climate risks.

This workshop does not require detailed technical knowledge to attend.
The content is based on the Public Infrastructure Engineering Vulnerability Committee (PIEVC) Portfolio and High-Level Risk Screening guides, which were developed with small and medium sized communities in mind. It will show you how to:

• Use your own data to catalogue assets by climate risk.
• Access publicly available climate forecasts for your community.
• Understand social and economic drivers of risk.
• Complete a high-level risk screen for one asset class using your own data.
• Identify when to build and when to mitigate risk.

You’ll leave ready to identify priority projects, demonstrate climate action, and confidently guide decision-making and add demonstrated value to your municipality and your role within it.

Who Should Attend: Municipal asset managers, CAOs, department heads, public works managers, facility managers, council members, climate and sustainability staff.

Outcomes or Deliverables:
High-Level Climate Risk Screen of one asset class
High-Level Climate Risk Screen tool for other asset classes
Cost: $150 per participant

Coffee and snacks will be provided at the in-person sessions. One-on one support and work review is available after the workshop is complete.

Levels of Service at a Watershed Scale - A pathway to resiliency beyond borders

Facilitated by Stephanie Paradis-Leger.

Moncton NB November 18th, Halifax NS November 20th, or Deer Lake NL November 25th (Online)

Your community relies on natural assets every day: rivers and aquifers that supply drinking water, wetlands and forests that manage runoff, beaches that reduce erosion, and natural spaces that support recreation and tourism.

These assets don’t stop at municipal boundaries, yet they directly affect your budgets, service delivery, and ability to secure funding under programs guided by the National Adaptation Strategy.

This hands-on workshop will show you how to link natural assets with conventional infrastructure, define service levels at a watershed scale, and come prepared to advocate for your community in discussions with provincial agencies, landowners, and funding bodies.

Using your own community as a case study, you will:

• Map connections between natural and built assets for integrated management.

• Apply a practical, intuitive tool (co-designed by CCNB and AIM Network) to assess ecosystem services to your community.

• Identify the natural asset(s) most critical to your service delivery and define the risks to those assets under climate change, growth, and decisions by other jurisdictions. 

• Build strategies to present findings to council and secure buy-in for protective action.

• Understand how to use this information in discussions with other agencies (provincial land owners, transportation departments and funding agencies)

You’ll leave with concrete skills to reduce risks, lower costs, and strengthen your community’s case for funding.

Climate Resilience in Operations & Maintenance Planning

Facilitated by: Martha Myers, P. Eng. CAMP and Ian Tenhaff, P. Eng., AIM
Network.

Dates and Locations:

November 19th Halifax NS - Venue TBD

November 21st, Moncton NB - Venue TBD

November 27th, St John’s NL - Venue TBD

What the workshop is about: 
Floods, fires, and storm surges are impacting municipal infrastructure and services as well as private property in many municipalities throughout Atlantic Canada. 

Developing robust operations and maintenance plans are important to manage the risk of these increasingly frequent climate events and their impacts. 

Participants in this workshop will be guided through the process of integrating climate resilience into municipal operations and maintenance, and will be provided access to AIM Network’s O&M toolkit.
As an outcome of this workshop, participants will be empowered to communicate to council, other staff members, and the public the benefits of incorporating climate resiliency into operations and maintenance planning.

You will also be given the tools to explain how it reduces the municipalities liability and improves relations with residents during major climate events.

Who Should Attend: 
Municipal Operations, Maintenance and Public Works
staff.

Outcomes or Deliverables: Participants will prepare an Operations and
Maintenance resilience action roadmap for their municipality.

Lunch and refreshments will be provided.


This workshop is delivered through the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ Green Municipal Fund and the Government of Canada.