Climate Care Toronto (TO)

Climate Care TO is a multi-year collaborative, community-based digital citizen science initiative. The purpose of Climate Care TO is to capture and respond to adverse climate change impacts on health among underserved communities in Toronto.

Digital citizen science is an approach that ethically engages citizens via their own digital devices. Using a custom-built progressive web application, citizens can report on environmental hazards, extreme weather events, and related health issues (i.e., heat stroke) in their communities. This app is linked to environment and weather databases, and uses artificial intelligence to anonymize and aggregate both citizen with environmental data to provide communities with real-time support to manage their health risks.