This initiative aims to improve Canada’s climate change mitigation and adaptation responses
as they relate to individuals, families, and communities that are experiencing poverty.
Networks of experts, policymakers, and community organizations co-design and provide
research, policy, education, and service direction based on the best available evidence on the
climate change-poverty-health nexus in Canada. Literature reviews, think tanks, and
participatory lived experience engagement inform this work. An intersectional lens is applied,
with specific emphases on the experiences of women, children and youth, older adults, and
populations experiencing homelessness and housing precarity. Connecting and aligning this
work with Indigenous communities, racialized communities, and other key points of intersection
is a priority.
The Initiative provides a free, online, self-paced course: Climate Change and the Social
Determinants of Health. A certificate of completion is available.
Click here to access The Canadian Poverty, Health Equity, and Climate Change Initiative
Click here to access the course, Climate Change and the Social Determinants of Health
