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About Natural Assets Initiative (NAI)

The Natural Assets Initiative (NAI) is changing the way communities deliver everyday services, increasing the quality and resilience of infrastructure at lower costs and reduced risk. The NAI team provides scientific, economic, and civic expertise to support and guide local governments, watershed agencies, Indigenous Nations, and others in identifying, valuing and accounting for natural assets in their financial planning and asset management programs, and in developing leading-edge, sustainable and climate-resilient infrastructure. Local governments across Canada are faced with significant asset management challenges. Many of the services they provide — including water and wastewater, waste removal, transportation, and environmental services —depend, in large part, on engineered infrastructure assets that are in need of renewal. Meanwhile, the effects of climate change are expected to put even more strain on these assets and on local government budgets. From a single initiative in the Town of Gibsons in 2016 to working with over 140 local governments, professional associations, and provincial and federal jurisdictions today, NAI has led the creation and development of the most widely-accepted approach to #NaturalAssetManagement in Canada. As communities from coast-to-coast-to-coast experience the impacts of climate related weather events, natural asset management is an increasingly important way to help us protect and manage the ecosystems that deliver the key services on which all of us rely.

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