Slide from HealthADAPT presentation.
The city of Moncton is part of a 3 year pilot project aimed at understanding the impact climate change has on overall health.
The initiative focuses on developing tools that other communities can to use to identify and adapt to these situations.
Project Manager Tracey Wade says they chose communities that reflect the province’s 50-50, urban-rural split.
She says Moncton was selected to represent the province’s urban areas.
“Simply because the North is more rural than the South is, we knew that the rural project would be up there so were looking in the Southern area,” she says.
Wade says while Fredericton and Saint John were also considered, Moncton is closest to being ready to implement a project like this.
Two communities in the Chaleur region will represent the province’s urban areas.
“We were aiming for communities that complemented each other but that also represented New Brunswick in terms of cultural diversity and that kind of thing,” Wade says.
Wade says the data collected will help Health Canada identify where certain policies should be introduced.
This is one of 10 projects across Canada under the HealthADAPT program.
Slide from HealthADAPT presentation.
