ICLEI Canada is seeking interested communities for a new adaptation initiative starting in Fall 2010.  More information can be found in the Expression of Interest here.  Also contact ICLEI for more details and information.
Take a look at the ICLEI Canada website here.

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Institution of Civil Engineers 2010 Americas Convention
June 3~5, 2010, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Engineers @ the Heart of Society: Collaborating + Innovating for Our Common Future
Westin Wall Centre
3099 Corvette Way, Richmond, BC
V6X 4K3
Thursday 3rd June – Welcome Reception
Friday 4th June – Conference & Gala Dinner
Saturday 5th June – Tours
To Download the Convention Program in pdf (with useful [...]

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ACT’s Executive Director Deborah Harford will be speaking at the Projecting Change Film Festival. “The Great Squeeze: Surviving the Human Project” directed by Christophe Fauchere, will be playing at the Fifth Avenue Cinemas Saturday, April 24 at 2:30pm.
For tickets and more information, visit the Projecting Change Film Festival Website here.
Saturday, April 24, 2:30pm
THE GREAT SQUEEZE: [...]

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DATE:          Wednesday, April 28, 2010
TIME:          3:30 – 4:30 pm
PLACE:        Social Sciences and Mathematics Bldg. Room A120, University of Victoria
SPEAKER:   Dr. Barry Carin, Associate Director, Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria and Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation
TITLE:          An Outside-the-Box Approach to Climate Change Negotiations
Abstract:
There is little hope of an early agreement on binding [...]

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ACT Executive Director Deborah Harford featured during living blogging at UBC Resilience Symposium:
(From the live blogging site)
Doborah Hartford, the Executive Director of the Simon Fraser University Adaptation to Climate Change Team pointed out that global warming has diverse and unpredictable effects on water cycles around the world, from flooding in the UK to severe droughts [...]

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The Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions is hosting a special seminar “Climate Security: What it Means and Why it Matters: Perspectives from the UK and the EU”. Presented by Dr. Sabrina Schulz, Climate Security Project Leader, British High Commission in Ottawa.
Friday April 9, 2010, 2:00 – 3:00 pm. Social Sciences and Math Building (SSM), Room [...]

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Climate change: the unavoidable and immensely inconvenient truth.
“It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it,” writes Al Gore in an op-ed for the New York [...]

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How can collective deliberation by citizens lead to wise and timely action on climate change, including by municipal and provincial governments? Alberta will be a testing ground for this question over the next five years. An international team of scholars, NGOs, businesses, and governments will be addressing it, supported by $1 million in funding from [...]

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The BC Regional Adaptation Collaborative (BC RAC) has been announced. You can read the full press release below, or find it here on NRCAN’s website.

In order to prepare effectively for climate change and its impacts, decision-makers need regionally relevant tools and knowledge to work closely with local stakeholders and resource managers. The British [...]

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SFU’s Graduate Public Policy Program Brown Bag Lunch Seminar Series proudly presents:
“Forests for a Cooler Planet” with Ben Parfitt, Forestry Expert and Author, and George Heyman, Executive Director, Sierra Club BC.
Thursday February 4th 2010 at 12:00 – 1:00pm at SFU’s Vancouver Campus at Harbour Centre, room 3000.

Overview of Topic:
BC has had long standing conflicts between [...]

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