Climate change report: Expect warmer and wetter Ottawa, shorter winters
The National Capital Commission (NCC) and the City of Ottawa commissioned the report to improve the region’s resilience to extreme weather events and other impacts related to climate change. The NCC approved a five-year sustainability plan back in 2018, and Ottawa city council officially declared a climate emergency in the capital last year.
The report projects that, assuming global carbon emissions continue to grow at the current pace, Ottawa will likely see average temperatures 1.8 C warmer in the next three decades as compared to the study’s baseline time period of 1981-2010.