Ever since the global food price spike in 2007-2008, grain crops, which make up half of the total human caloric intake around the world, have been subject to much discussion as climate impacts such as droughts, heat waves and temperatures increases have continued to shift their prices upward. A recent article by Janet Larsen of [...]
The Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS) is pleased to announce the following events taking place in Victoria and Vancouver this week: What: BC Weather Year in Review for 2011: An Introduction to PCIC Climate Analysis and Monitoring presented by Faron Anslow, Climatologist, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium When: Wed. February 15, 2012; 3:30 – 4:30 [...]
By ACT water researcher Tim Shah A recent article in the Canadian Journal of Water Resources offers a discussion of flooding and how a new approach is required to help mitigate the increasingly fatal risks. Authors Matthias Jakob and Mike Church explain that river and coastal floods, in an average year, kill over 25,000, affect [...]
Climate Change: Coastal Impacts for Major Cities March 8th, 7:00-900 p.m. Segal Room #420, SFU Vancouver (515 West Hastings St.) Free to the public This town hall-style meeting will feature brief presentations on coastal hazards from a visiting group of top Canadian experts, and offer the public an opportunity to engage on the challenges we [...]
Download the PICS Climate News Scan for 7 February 2012 produced by ISIS, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia in partnership with the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS). The PICS News Scan is a weekly summary of the major climate-change related science, technology, and policy advances of direct relevance to the BC provincial [...]
The Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS) is pleased to announce the following events taking place in Victoria and Vancouver this month: What: Why We Disagree About Climate Change presented by Mike Hulme, Professor of Climate Change, University of East Anglia, UK? When: Wed. February 15, 2012; 5:00 – 7:00 pm? Where: Fletcher Challenge Theatre (Room [...]
The UK Government has published the country’s first ever National Climate Change Risk Assessment. DEFRA (the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (only in England…) demonstrated the enormous influence a national government can exert on all levels of a country’s policies by funding this extraordinary undertaking, which, in the true spirit of adaptation, will [...]
ACT Executive Director Deborah Harford speaks at the second UBC TerreWeb seminar tomorrow, January 26th 2012, on climate change and the energy-water nexus, as well as policy and media strategies for communicating scientific work. Climate change impacts will affect hydrological systems as well as energy production and distribution. Compounding these challenges is the fact that [...]
