Wawanesa Climate Champions
Building climate resilient communities
Climate resiliency is a growing need in every community we insure.
Our new Wawanesa Climate Champions program invests $2 million annually to help people on the front lines of climate change who are working to build more resilient communities.
We’re bringing our program to life with community partners, granting programs and employee volunteer events across three pillars: Environmental Guardians, Community Protectors and Youth Stewards.
Environmental Guardians
Conservationists, farmers and Indigenous Peoples working on nature-based solutions for climate resiliency.
Community Protectors
Disaster preventers, responders and rebuilders working to protect our members and communities from climate-related disasters, before and after they occur.
Youth Stewards
The next-generation of Wawanesa Climate Champions taking action to help our communities become more climate resilient.
Wawanesa Climate Champions aligns with our commitment to Sustainability and is the signature investment of our overall Community Impact Program.
Wawanesa is proud to support the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction and the ICLR Climate Resilience Centre in Winnipeg. The Centre displays proven ways in which Canadians can protect property from loss due to extreme weather.
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Support for climate resiliency projects
Wawanesa offers three grant programs to support climate mitigation and adaptation initiatives across the country.
Wawanesa Climate Champions: Local Grants
Grants up to $25,000 to support local community climate adaption and mitigation projects.
Learn moreWawanesa’s Community Wildfire Prevention Grants
Grants up to $15,000 to increase community resilience to wildfires through risk reduction or prevention activities.
Apply nowWawanesa Climate Champions: Youth Innovation Grants
For youth enrolled at C2R2 partner colleges, grants for up to $30,000 to launch or enhance an innovative climate adaptation or mitigation project.
Applications accepted in January.
Learn moreStories of our Climate Champions
How Youth Climate Lab is empowering next generation leaders in climate resilience
Youth Climate Lab brings people together from across Canada who are passionate about climate change issues and want to make a difference.
Read moreMeet the non-profit organization who plants millions of trees across Canada each year
Tree Canada is Canada’s only national non-profit organization dedicated to planting and nurturing trees in rural and urban environments in every province across the country.
Read moreThe power of youth champions on prairie grassland protection
Over 80 percent of Canada's prairie grasslands have been lost. The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) is on the front lines of protecting this endangered environment and connecting youth to this essential work.
Read moreChampioning farmers and ranchers on the front lines of climate change
Founded in 2020, Farmers for Climate Solutions is a farmer-led national coalition representing over 20,000 farmers and ranchers in Canada.
Read moreOur Wawanesa Climate Champions partner organizations
