Alain Bourque News Today

In its report, the group named five major priorities. One of the report's authors says it's urgent the province implements these strategies or it risks more destruction.

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at what fish skin can teach us about keeping buildings more energy-efficient and why Montreal is investing so much in "sponge" infrastructure.

The city will unveil a pilot project next week to unveil its first "sponge street."

Alain Bourque is the executive director of Ouranos, Quebec's climatology and climate change innovation hub, which helps provide the training.

As farmers haul water to their livestock and homeowners are ordered to restrict water use, rural municipalities try to plan for a future where the resource is even more scarce. Is the province doing enough to help?

Quebecers will need to rethink how they design their homes and lives to prevent further destruction from the effects of climate change, experts say.