Toronto, ON (Oct. 22, 2019) \u2013 Natural disasters caused by climate change are real and immediate. These disasters cost people, businesses and governments billions of dollars every year, and they take a toll on Canadians\u2019 mental and physical health.<\/p>\n
Through the Intact Adaptation Action Grants, Intact Financial Corporation is investing $1 million in charities that are developing practical and effective solutions that help protect people from natural disasters like floods, wildfires, extreme heat, wind and hail.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur purpose is to help people, businesses and society prosper in good times and be resilient in bad times. We do that by mobilizing our more than 4,000 claims employees to help customers get back on track quickly after a catastrophic weather event. These events are impacting our communities and that\u2019s why we\u2019re taking a proactive approach to protect people from natural disasters by building a more climate-resilient country,\u201d said Charles Brindamour, Chief Executive Officer, Intact Financial Corporation.<\/p>\n
The Intact Adaptation Action Grants will prioritize projects that use natural infrastructure as part of their solutions, take a community engagement approach, and help Canadians understand the climate risks they are facing.<\/p>\n
Transformational change takes time and requires investing in both new and existing ideas. With this in mind, Intact is funding three types of grants:<\/p>\n
Over the past two years, Intact Financial Corporation has invested $2.3 million in 16 projects to help create a more climate-resilient Canada. Successful projects are helping to reduce flooding by protecting and restoring natural infrastructure. They are also helping to reduce urban heat islands by greening our cities and using artificial intelligence to predict wildfires. See the attached backgrounder for a full list of charitable partners and their projects.<\/p>\n
Click here<\/a> for more details about the Adaptation Action Grants window, including the link to apply.<\/p>\n About Intact Financial Corporation<\/b><\/p>\n Intact Financial Corporation (TSX: IFC)<\/em> is the largest provider of property and casualty (P&C) insurance in Canada and a leading provider of specialty insurance in North America, with over $10 billion in total annual premiums. The Company has approximately 14,000 full- and part-time employees who serve more than five million personal, business and public sector clients through offices in Canada and the U.S. In Canada, Intact distributes insurance under the Intact Insurance brand through a wide network of brokers, including its wholly-owned subsidiary BrokerLink, and directly to consumers through belairdirect. In the U.S., OneBeacon Insurance Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary, provides specialty insurance products through independent agencies, brokers, wholesalers and managing general agencies. For more information, visit www.intact.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n Source: Intact Financial Corporation<\/i><\/p>\n NATIONAL:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n ALUS Canada<\/a> Nature Conservancy of Canada<\/span><\/a><\/b> Green Learning Canada Foundation<\/a><\/b> FireSmart<\/a><\/b> BRITISH COLUMBIA:<\/span> <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n University of British Columbia<\/span><\/a><\/b> ALBERTA:<\/span> <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n The Miistakis Institute of the Rockies Inc.<\/a><\/b> University of Alberta<\/span><\/a><\/b> Green Calgary<\/span><\/a><\/b> ONTARIO:<\/span> <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Ducks Unlimited<\/a><\/b> QUEBEC:<\/span> <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n WWF-Canada<\/a><\/b> Conseil r\u00e9gional de l\u2019environnement et du d\u00e9veloppement durable de l\u2019Outaouais<\/a><\/b> Nature-Action Qu\u00e9bec<\/a><\/b> Nature Qu\u00e9bec<\/a><\/b> Sentier Urbain<\/a><\/b> NOVA SCOTIA:<\/span> <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Coastal Action<\/a><\/b> NEW BRUNSWICK:<\/span> <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Community Forests International<\/a><\/b> Tags: climate change<\/a>, Intact<\/a>, Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation<\/a> Read the original article at Insurance-Canada.ca <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Canadian charities can now apply for the 2019 Intact Adaptation Action Grants Toronto, ON (Oct. 22, 2019) \u2013 Natural disasters caused by climate change are real and immediate. These disasters cost people, businesses and...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Backgrounder:<\/h3>\n
2017 and 2018 Charitable Partners<\/h2>\n
<\/b>Project name<\/b>: Implementing natural infrastructure projects in communities upstream of urban centres
Description<\/b>: ALUS Canada implements natural-infrastructure projects on marginal or inefficient-to-farm agricultural lands, to reduce the risk of floods in Calgary<\/span>, Ottawa<\/span> and Brandon, MB
Outcomes to date<\/b>:<\/p>\n\n
<\/b>Project name:<\/b> Protecting and restoring wetlands
Description<\/b>: Protecting and restoring wetlands in Ontario<\/span> to help reduce the impact of severe storms
Outcomes to date:<\/b><\/p>\n\n
<\/b>Project name<\/b>: Wild weather \u2013 engaging youth in education and action on extreme weather preparedness
Description<\/b>: Flood education directly engages youth in preparing their schools and homes for a flood event
Results to date:<\/b><\/p>\n\n
<\/b>Project name<\/b>: FireSmart Home Partners
Description<\/b>: Addressing the need for a standardized system that offers defendable, detailed and customized wildfire risk assessments and tracks measurable risk reduction for homes
Results to date<\/b>:<\/p>\n\n
<\/b>Project name<\/b>: Megafires \u2013 urgent need for climate change adaptation to build community resilience, prevention and recovery
Description<\/b>: Developing post-fire recovery strategies to prevent future forest fires and increase climate resilience in 21 communities in Canada<\/span>
Results to date<\/b>:<\/p>\n\n
<\/b>Project name<\/b>: Smart from the start
Description<\/b>: Creating a least-conflict lands planning tool to guide placement of large scale solar and wind projects.
Results to date<\/b>:<\/p>\n\n
<\/b>Project name<\/b>: Using artificial intelligence (AI) to predict extreme fire weather
Description<\/b>: Developing a computer program that recognizes large scale atmospheric patterns associated with extreme fire weather using AI
Results to date:<\/b><\/p>\n\n
<\/b>Project name<\/b>: Flood prevention through rainwater harvesting
Description:<\/b> Helping Calgarians to act to protect their homes through rainwater harvesting
Results to date<\/b>:<\/p>\n\n
<\/b>Project name<\/b>: Brick Ponds Wetland Restoration and Enhancement
Description<\/b>: Increasing the amount of shallow water wetland cells to provide wildlife habitat, increase aquatic plant diversity and to aid in flood water management and water quality improvement.
Results to date<\/b>:<\/p>\n\n
<\/b>Project name: <\/b>Bleu Montreal<\/span>
Description<\/b>: Restoring water to the urban landscape, improving water management and strengthening Montreal\u2019s<\/span> resilience by uncovering underground rivers and creating new ones.
Results to date<\/b><\/p>\n\n
<\/b>Project name<\/b>: Reducing heat islands of downtown Gatineau<\/span>
Description<\/b>: Reduce the impact of urban heat islands by implementing a strategy that includes greening and community involvement
Projected outcomes<\/b>:<\/p>\n\n
<\/b>Project name<\/b>: Restoring shorelines to reduce flood risk in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu<\/span>
Description<\/b>: Shoreline restoration of the Hazen Bleury and the Barbotte rivers targeted for their vulnerability to flood and their low vegetation
Results to date<\/b>:<\/p>\n\n
<\/b>Project name<\/b>: Healthy Living Space
Description<\/b>: Help municipalities reduce the number of heat islands and air pollution through heat island mapping, public awareness and green areas preservation and restoration
Results to date<\/b>:<\/p>\n\n
<\/b>Project name<\/b>: The Garden Circuit
Description<\/b>: Restore green areas by creating urban gardens, improving water management, increasing the levels of oxygen and reducing CO2 <\/sub>emissions in the sector
Results to date: <\/b><\/p>\n\n
<\/b>Project name<\/b>: Green Streets stormwater project
Description<\/b>: Working directly with municipal and community partners in southwest Nova Scotia<\/span> to locate, design and install low impact development (LID) projects with the aim of improving stormwater management
Results to date: <\/b><\/p>\n\n
<\/b>Project name<\/b>: Forest Infrastructure Adaptation Project
Description<\/b>: A natural infrastructure adaptation approach to flood-risk reduction in New Brunswick
Results to date:<\/b><\/p>\n\n