rain | Corporate Knights https://corporateknights.com/tag/rain/ The Voice for Clean Capitalism Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:51:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://corporateknights.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/cropped-K-Logo-in-Red-512-32x32.png rain | Corporate Knights https://corporateknights.com/tag/rain/ 32 32 Toronto in 2040: Hotter days, more heat waves, increased flooding https://corporateknights.com/multimedia/toronto-2040-extreme-weather/ Fri, 13 Mar 2015 11:24:34 +0000 http://corporateknights.com/?p=8319 The City of Toronto’s Subcommittee on Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation held its first public meeting in early March. More than 300 citizens attended the

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]]> The City of Toronto’s Subcommittee on Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation held its first public meeting in early March. More than 300 citizens attended the meeting, where city staff presented a background document outlining the city’s GHG reduction targets, progress to date, and the current sources of city emissions. Also highlighted were the risks to public health and city infrastructure as a result, partly, of increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. So what can Torontonians expected over the next few decades when it comes to extreme weather? It doesn’t look good.

 

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