be needed in the next decade to offset retirements and fill new jobs, driven by the aging population.12 Over the next several 8 | Smart Prosperity Institute The impacts of a changing climate in Of particular concern in the Canadian context is the risk and Canada impacts of flooding and erosion. [...] The changing definition of climate taken place.30 With the NAS set to be completed by the end of change adaptation makes it difficult to concretely 2022, this report aims to inform its development by driving the narrow the scope of a quantitative analysis that aims to case for programs and policies needed to develop the work- identify impacts of investing in adaptation measures, force needed to su. [...] The 2011 Adaptation community, region, or country and can include physically Policy Framework pre-dated the PCF and aimed to understand distinct and measurable actions such as building flood the impacts of climate change on the lives of Canadians, ensure resilience infrastructure and switching to drought-resis- that the tools needed to adapt to these impacts are in place, tant crops to intangible. [...] the workforce demand from building out municipal FRM Governments need to create training programs to ensure that infrastructure at levels needed to avoid the worst impacts of the workforce in affected sectors, like construction, engineering climate change by 2030, and to identify the skills needs of this and a number of skilled trades have the skills needed to develop adaptation workforce. [...] Developed capacities that facilitate learning or the more rapid For example, as mentioned above, the construction sub sectors acquisition of knowledge in the IOIC used in the first part of the analysis did not have their counterparts in the NAICS codes which is why the second part Sub-Categories Skills Details of the analysis had to rely on the two-digit construction sector as a whole.
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