Since 2025, the City of Dauphin has been developing a Climate Adaptation Plan to prepare for current and future climate change challenges, including floods, droughts, heat waves, heavy rainfall, and intense winds.
The City of Dauphin is seeking input from community members to help inform the plan. We want to understand how you have been impacted by climate change, what your biggest concerns are and which actions you believe should be prioritized.
Complete the Community Survey
Complete the survey by Monday, September 21, 2026, for a chance to win one of two $50 Chamber Bucks gift cards!
If you prefer to complete a paper survey, copies are available at City Hall.
About the Climate Adaptation Plan
The City has long recognized how a changing climate affects our infrastructure, services, and the people who live here. To prepare for current and future challenges, the City is creating a Climate Adaptation Plan to learn about how the impacts of climate change are affecting the community and identify actions that will reduce the risk of these impacts.
The process to develop the Climate Adaptation Plan will prioritize climate hazards and identify adaptation actions. Climate hazards are climate-related events that can put infrastructure, natural ecosystems, and social systems at risk and produce negative consequences.
Climate adaptation actions are initiatives and strategies created to respond to actual or anticipated impacts of climate change that minimize the effects and reduce the risks of climate change on infrastructure, natural ecosystems, and social systems.
Adaptation actions may include responses to extreme heat, such as maintaining and increasing the urban tree canopy, creating cooling centres, and developing heat response plans. Some examples of adaptation actions in response to heavy rainfall may include expanding stormwater capacity, installing green infrastructure such as rain gardens and bioswales, and incentivizing installations of sump pumps in homes.
What has been the project process?
The City has formed a Climate Action Working Group to guide the process and help to ensure that the identified risks and adaptation actions reflect the realities of the community. Representatives from the City of Dauphin, Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty 2 Territory, and the Northwest Métis Council are part of the Working Group and are helping to guide the climate adaptation process with the City.
In May 2026, a workshop was facilitated with key internal and external city stakeholders to:
- Explore local climate and projected climate change impacts and hazards;
- Identify consequences of climate change impacts and hazards;
- Assess consequences and determine risk; and
- Develop and evaluate adaptation actions.
The planning process also included outreach to nearby Indigenous communities and Councils as well as community stakeholders and organizations.
How will community input be used?
Engaging with local community members is a critical element of the planning process. We want to understand how you have been impacted by climate change, what climate hazards you are experiencing, and which adaptation actions you believe should be prioritized.
Your input will help us build a better understanding of how community members are impacted by climate change and the potential actions that will help build a more resilient Dauphin for all.
Complete the survey by Monday, September 21, 2026, for a chance to win one of two $50 Chamber Bucks gift cards!
Paper copies are also available at City Hall.