Climate Adaptation Library

Explore climate change information and engaging infographics. Providing insights into rising temperatures, precipitation shifts, more frequent intense storms, sea level rise, and ocean changes. This overview provides individuals an understanding of our climate future.

Discover a comprehensive list of climate action plans, progress reports, and targets that highlight Nova Scotia’s journey toward to adapting to our changing climate.

A valuable resource for climate data, information, climate adaptation, and funding

Here you will find essential climate data. This vital resource is key in learning climate data and how it has a role in climate change adaptation.

They are a vital organization that supports the Nova Scotia agricultural sector and is a host of many valuable agricultural resources and services.

Find a variety of funding pathways offered by the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture. The links provided offer an overview and key details about the programs, allowing you to find the ones that best fit your needs.

This podcast goes over the impacts of climate change on transportation and discusses topics surrounding how maintain sustainable transportation.

Farm Data Tools for weather station information, growing degree day calculator, and the NS soil survey and maps. These can provide great climatic data and information pertinent in agriculture.

The Living Labs project focuses on cover crops, riparian zones and shelterbelts, and land swapping. Here you can learn of the projects taking place in Nova Scotia and the role they have in climate change adaptation and mitigation in agriculture.

Environmental farm plans are a great way to identify and manage environmental risk factors on farms. This information is a valuable way to learn of potential risks and provided in some background on the program and ways to obtain an environmental farm plan

This is a great farmer lead organization that is working towards and on climate solutions in agriculture. Here you will find their work surrounding policy and farm solutions that are beneficial to the agricultural sector.

FaRM – Farm Resilience Mentorship is program offered through Farmers for Climate Solutions surrounding BMPs for nitrogen management, grazing systems, and cover cropping.

Agricultural energy managers and technologies assist to help save energy in areas such as lighting, heating & cooling, refrigeration, smart farms, electrification, and more.

Here you will find a vast array of resources for the agricultural sector including, climate adaptation maps, climatic data links, reports, and more. These links can assist in the collection of climate and weather related information.

This short infographic highlights climate change impacts and adaptation approaches in forest resilience and management.

This publication is an academic review of the impacts of climate change on the Acadian Forest. It covers the review of research on climate impacts to varies tree species and forest resilience.

Here you will find information produced by the climate adaptation project by New Brunswick woodlot owners. They provide resources about beneficial management practices and education for a more resilient forest.

The interactive plant hardiness models and maps are provided by Natural Resources Canada as a tool to provide species specific data for certain regions and climates.

Weather and drought related to agriculture – drought condition indictors, agroclimate maps, satellite soil moisture, agroclimate risk report, extreme weather indices, and more – Agriculture and Agri-food Canada

This interactive atlas provides data surrounding frost free seasons, growing degree days, precipitation, and more. This atlas can provide valuable data for farmers and producers in their adaptation and mitigation efforts.