Goal: Increase the resilience of built assets, infrastructure and services to endure extreme weather and environmental events.  

Resilient infrastructure reduces risks to human health, safety, property, transportation, services, wildlife, and natural areas. The frequency and intensity of heavy rain events, rain on snow events and drier summers are projected to increase. We must make our infrastructure and services more resilient to floods, debris flows, drought and related impacts.

What we’re doing

• Review and improve flood plans and stormwater systems to ensure they can handle projected climate changes, such as storm frequency and intensity. 
• Update plans and policies to protect Whistler’s drinking and firefighting water supply from potential contamination and drawdown. Climate change is expected to cause more extreme rain and snow events as well as longer, hotter, drier summers. 
• Develop strategies to improve public safety for extreme rain, snow, heat,wildfire and wildfire smoke events. For example: emergency plans for  transportation and critical service disruption. 
• Develop strategies to make recreation trails and outdoor recreation assets more resilient to extreme weather conditions. 
• Encourage community economic diversification in Whistler to increase climate resilience. Examples include developing cultural tourism, increasing learning and education opportunities, and providing more weather-independent tourism and recreation opportunities. 
• Integrate climate change considerations into the corporate asset management system.