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Getting pro-active on climate change and population displacement
By on March 28th, 2012

Getting pro-active on climate change and population displacement

A cyberseminar organized by the Population-Environment Research Network in November 2011, brought together academics and practitioners from around the world to discuss the topic of population displacement. Each expert offered a research study they had been participating in to advance the knowledge surrounding population displacement and climate change. The cyberseminar addressed how communities can better [...]

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Deborah Harford’s Water Governance webinar for Community of Practice now online
By on March 27th, 2012

Deborah Harford’s Water Governance webinar for Community of Practice now online

On March 27, 2012, ACT Executive Director Deborah Harford delivered a webinar for the national Community of Practice (CoP) on the topic of Climate Change Adaptation and Water Governance. A complete recording of the webinar is now online along with the PDF slides from Deborah’s presentation. Learn more about the Climate Change Adaptation Community of [...]

ACT News • Featured • Water Governance
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Digital Coast Partnership Group offers “Roadmap” assessment methodology training
By on March 27th, 2012

Digital Coast Partnership Group offers “Roadmap” assessment methodology training

Roadmap for Adapting to Coastal Risk Developed and delivered by the NOAA Coastal Services Center This three-hour training introduces the “Roadmap” assessment methodology designed to help communities characterize their exposure to current and future hazard and climate threats and assess how existing planning and policy efforts may integrate this information to address community issues. Three [...]

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PICS Climate News Scan for 27 March 2012
By on March 26th, 2012

PICS Climate News Scan for 27 March 2012

Download the PICS Climate News Scan for 27 March 2012 produced by ISIS, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia in partnership with the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS). ??The PICS Climate News Scan is a weekly summary of the major climate-change related science, technology, and policy advances of direct relevance to the BC provincial [...]

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CASE STUDIES / Facing the Elements: Building Business Resilience in a Changing Climate
By on March 22nd, 2012

CASE STUDIES / Facing the Elements: Building Business Resilience in a Changing Climate

March 22, 2012 release from David McLaughlin, NRT President & CEO The National Round Table (NRT) is pleased to present the first of three reports that show how businesses are adapting to climate change. This compilation of Canadian and international case studies, “Case Studies / Facing the Elements: Building Business Resilience in a Changing Climate“, [...]

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Looking at the future of our food
By on March 21st, 2012

Looking at the future of our food

By Christina Toth, The Abbotsford, Mission Times Climate change will be – is – changing the foods we eat in Canada. Ask local farmers, and they know their growing seasons are shifting. Chilliwack corn and blueberries are some of the common foods we find in the Fraser Valley that may be affected, and what of [...]

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ACT hosts Climate Change Impacts on Coastal Cities conference
By on March 16th, 2012

ACT hosts Climate Change Impacts on Coastal Cities conference

ACT’s Climate Change Impacts on Coastal Cities conference was held March 7-9, 2012 in Vancouver at the SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue. The proceedings were chaired by Dr. Gordon McBean, UWO, Principal Investigator for the Tri-Council funded Coastal Cities at Risk project, which twins Metro Vancouver with Manila, Bangkok and Lagos, and hosted [...]

ACT News • Featured • Sea Level Rise
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Rising seas, storm surges due to climate change await Lower Mainland
By on March 08th, 2012

Rising seas, storm surges due to climate change await Lower Mainland

The Georgia Straight By Matthew Burrows, March 8, 2012 Delta, Richmond, and “about one-third of Surrey” are “implicated” in the sea-level rise and extreme storm surges due in the region as a result of climate change, according to Deborah Harford. However, the executive director of SFU’s Adaptation to Climate Change Team told the Straight, “I [...]

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