Canada's National Adaptation Strategy promotes "climate mainstreaming" to address global climate issues and achieve Paris Agreement goals.
Canada's National Adaptation Strategy promotes "climate mainstreaming," urging citizens to consider climate change impacts in everyday decisions and various development programs. Climate mainstreaming, systemically embedding climate responses in all policies and actions, is crucial for addressing urgent global climate issues and achieving Paris Agreement goals, which require reducing global greenhouse gas emissions by 43% from 2019 to 2030. This approach ensures more comprehensive and cost-effective interventions by addressing multiple issues simultaneously but faces slow progress and uneven implementation due to institutional resistance. Climate mainstreaming can learn from the longstanding struggle to mainstream gender equality in international and national public policy agendas. To improve climate mainstreaming, governments, development partners, and industries can use multiple strategies, build institutional accountability, and adopt a climate justice perspective, ensuring transparency, monitoring, and a stronger commitment to climate action.