Climate change is affecting Canada more quickly and dramatically than almost any other place on Earth.
Canada is warming about twice as fast as the global average. In our Arctic regions the pace of warming is at three times the global average.
Among other impacts, Canada is already experiencing:
- Longer and more severe flood and wildfire seasons
- Rapid permafrost thaw
- Glacier retreat
- More extreme heat events
- Rising sea levels on all coasts
These impacts are accelerating and expected to intensify through 2040 regardless of global emissions cuts.
In other words, climate change is now effectively beyond our control, and its impacts are going to get worse not better.
The effects of climate change are impacting people, property, the environment, and the economy directly. Climate change is also having an impact on the critical infrastructure that supports community resilience and social cohesion.
It comes as no surprise, therefore, that CounterCrisis Tech is seeing a significant increase in requirements for emergency management software from across all Canadian emergency management, public safety and defence market segments at all levels of government as well as critical infrastructure operators, airlines and airports.
This is because organizations with responsibilities to the public are realizing that, if you can’t control the climate, you need to focus on the things you can control, which include well established information management and workflow processes for emergency preparedness, mitigation, response, resilience, and recovery.
All these emergency management processes can be optimized through the implementation of advanced technology to enable better communication, coordination, resource tracking, decision making and situational awareness information sharing among all key stakeholders in real time.
And, in the Canadian context, this means implementing and supporting the world’s most advanced emergency management software solution for both English and French-language operations – a SaaS solution developed in Canada to meet identified domestic technology capability gaps and implemented by sophisticated and experienced teams with deep experience in delivering high-complexity integrated solutions hosted in secure Canadian environments.