Since 2025, the City of Dauphin has been developing a Climate Adaptation Plan to prepare for current and future climate change challenges, including floods, droughts, heat waves, heavy rainfall, and intense winds.
As part of the planning process, the City invited community members to share their experiences, concerns, and priorities through a community survey. The survey is now closed, and the feedback received will help inform the development of the Climate Adaptation Plan.
Thank you to everyone who took the time to provide input.
About the Climate Adaptation Plan
The City has long recognized how a changing climate affects our infrastructure, services, and the people who live here. To prepare for current and future challenges, the City is creating a Climate Adaptation Plan to bettern understand how the impacts of climate change are affecting the community and identify actions that will reduce the risk of these impacts.
The process to develop the Climate Adaptation Plan will prioritize climate hazards and identify adaptation actions. Climate hazards are climate-related events that can put infrastructure, natural ecosystems, and social systems at risk and produce negative consequences.
Climate adaptation actions are initiatives and strategies created to respond to actual or anticipated impacts of climate change that minimize the effects and reduce the risks of climate change on infrastructure, natural ecosystems, and social systems.
Adaptation actions may include responses to extreme heat, such as maintaining and increasing the urban tree canopy, creating cooling centres, and developing heat response plans. Some examples of adaptation actions in response to heavy rainfall may include expanding stormwater capacity, installing green infrastructure such as rain gardens and bioswales, and incentivizing the installation of sump pumps in homes.
What has the planning process involved?
The City formed a Climate Action Working Group to help guide the process and ensure that the risks and adaptation actions identified reflect the realities of the community. Representatives from the City of Dauphin, Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty 2 Territory, and the Northwest Métis Council are part of the Working Group and have helped guide the climate adaptation planning process.
In May 2026, a workshop was held with key internal and external stakeholders to:
- Explore local climate and projected climate change impacts and hazards;
- Identify consequences of climate change impacts and hazards;
- Assess consequences and determine risk; and
- Develop and evaluate adaptation actions.
The planning process also included outreach to nearby Indigenous communities and Councils, as well as community stakeholders and organizations.
From August 19 to September 21, 2026, the City conducted a community survey to gather input from residents about their experiences with climate change, their concerns, and the actions they believe should be prioritized.
How will community input be used?
Community input is an important part of the climate adaptation planning process. Feedback received through the community survey will help the City better understand how residents are affected by climate change, which climate hazards are of greatest concern, and which adaptation actions are important to the community.
This feedback will be considered alongside technical research and input gathered through the planning process as the Climate Adaptation Plan is developed.
Updates will be shared as the project progresses.