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Infrastructure Resilience Professional (IRP) Credentialling Program Upcoming ONLINE COURSES!

Climate Change and Infrastructure Risk Assessment – The PIEVC Protocol  - Wednesdays, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm EST, February 23 to March 23, 2022.

Asset Management and Climate Resiliency - Tuesdays,12:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST, February 15 to March 22, 2022.

Évaluation du changement climatique et des risques pour les infrastructures : le protocole CVIIP - Les jeudis du 17 février au 17 mars 2022, 13h30 à 15h30 heure de l’est. 

Registration Opening Soon for: 
Engineering Risk Management (Course offerings in Spring 2022) 

For further information, please contact:
Paul Cobb or Jacqueline Richard 
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Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Training for Professional Planners Course starting March 10, 2022 (10:00 am – 12:30 pm)

For further information, please contact:
Megan Gereghty

Announcements, Tools and Other Resources 

The New Brunswick Environmental Network launches new courses on natural infrastructure!
The New Brunswick Environmental Network has announced the launch of 3 courses on natural infrastructure produced as part of their BRACE project. The courses aim to support the understanding of natural infrastructure principles and applications for university students and professionals in engineering, planning, environmental science, forestry, ecology and biology. The courses are taught by various experts of natural infrastructure in the Maritimes and are available in English and French:
  • Natural Infrastructure 101: Climate change data in New Brunswick and the role of natural infrastructure in climate change adaptation
  • Rain Garden Conception: Rain garden conception guide for stormwater management
  • Coastal restoration: Considerations and case studies for nature-based shoreline restoration

New Brunswick Releases Updated, Interactive Flood Hazard Mapping
New Brunswickers can now access comprehensive and interactive flood hazard mapping to help inform them of flood-prone areas and the effect of climate change on water levels in the province. The mapping will assist in decisions about land-planning, flood-proofing existing infrastructure and planning evacuation routes in the event of a flood.

ICYMI ... Check out these Webinar Recordings:
If you missed the first two webinars in Canada’s Climate Change Adaptation Platform Winter Webinar Series, a series of webinars on the Canada in a Changing Climate: National Issues Report, recordings of the webinars can be found HERE.


Prairie Communities Adapting to Climate Change
Owning over half of the aging public infrastructure in Canada, municipalities are facing some of the biggest challenges they’ve ever seen as a result of climate change. Creating plans to adapt to climate impacts is complex and uncharted territory for many municipal staff, councillors, residents, and community leaders. In this video from ClimateWest, urban, rural, and Indigenous communities in the Prairies share their unique approaches, successes, and lessons learned in prioritizing risks and preparing for the changes to come.
 
Beijing 2022 - Olympics and Climate Change in the News:
Climate change and the future of the Olympic Winter Games: athlete and coach perspectives (2022) - This study provides novel insight into climatic thresholds for sport and tourism, and builds on previous analyses on the future of the Olympic Winter Games in a warmer world by incorporating the unique perspectives of elite international snow sport athletes and coaches. Based on these participant-defined conditions needed for safe and fair OWGs, the authors examine how the likelihood of these conditions has and will continue to change at the locations of past Games.
Climate change means more manmade snow and more athlete accidents
Climate change will limit choice for Winter Games hosts, says Canadian study

There are new additions to the Library:

  • Building a Resilient Canada (2022) - Current risk management approaches may be insufficient to prepare for future disasters, particularly where hazards overlap. Integrated approaches have potential to be more impactful, stretching limited resources further. Building a Resilient Canada examines current practices and emerging actions to reduce vulnerability and exposure to natural hazards through the integration of climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction (DRR). These actions are diverse but rest on a common foundation of accessible and up-to-date information, sufficient funding and insurance incentives, and coordinated and collaborative governance.
  • A Guide to Finding Climate Information & Data (2022) - This new guide from ClimateWest provides an overview of credible resources that offer free access to climate data about the future. Focusing on climate information needs within the Prairie provinces of Canada, the guide outlines where different types of climate data reside and some basics for how climate information and data can be used in risk management and adaptation planning.
  • Preparing for Climate Change in the Prairie Provinces: Regional survey outcomes on the climate adaptation priorities and progress of communities (2022) - Over the fall and winter of 2020-2021, the Prairies Regional Adaptation Collaborative (PRAC) reached out to municipalities and Indigenous communities throughout Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba to better understand the current extent of their climate change adaptation needs, planning, and implementation. This report provides an overview of the survey’s main outcomes and full results.
  • Resilient infrastructure. Resilient economy. Resilient future. Exploring Ontario’s climate vulnerability and the case for resilience (2022) - In 2021, the Ontario Environment Industry Association (ONEIA) struck a special working group, under the oversight of its Climate Change Committee, to examine the issue of climate resilient infrastructure. The working group addressed five broad areas of infrastructure resilience, paying particular attention to generating specific, practical recommendations about what Ontario should do to mitigate the threats posed by climate change AND to maximize the economic opportunity that such mitigation presents.

New links from online resources:

  • An assessment of systems, agents, and institutions in building community resilience to climate change: A case study of Charlottetown, Canada (2022) - This qualitative study, based in Charlottetown, Canada, utilizes the framework of resilience theory to examine the relationship between systems, agents, and institutions in addressing climate vulnerability to build community resilience. This study highlights the importance of robust local government agents and institutions as a prerequisite to enable local-scale climate adaptation.
  • “Land is everything, land is us”: Exploring the connections between climate change, land, and health in Fort William First Nation (2022) - The myriad and cumulative impacts of climate change on land, communities, and health are increasingly evident worldwide. Throughout 2019 and 2020, Fort William First Nation and researchers at Lakehead University conducted a project to document and understand connections among climate change, land, and health from the perspective of Elders, knowledge keepers, and community members with close ties to the land. Fort William First Nation is an Anishinaabe community located on the shores of Lake Superior/Kitchigami in Northern Ontario and within Robinson-Superior Treaty territory. This paper describes the analysis of interviews with 22 community members. 
  • Enabling Nature-Based Solutions to Build Back Better—An Environmental Regulatory Impact Analysis of Green Infrastructure in Ontario, Canada (2022) - The application of green infrastructure in the built environment delivers a nature-based solution to address the impacts of climate change. This study presents a qualitative evidence synthesis that evaluates policy instruments which enable the use and implementation of green infrastructure, using Ontario, Canada as a case study. Unpacking the elements of the policy landscape that govern green infrastructure through environmental regulatory impact analysis can inform effective implementation of this nature-based solution and support decision-making in public policy. This environmental regulatory impact analysis is based on a systematic review of existing policy instruments, contextual framing in a continuum of coercion, and identification of alignment with relevant UN SDGs. Enabling widespread usage of green infrastructure in the built environment could be a viable strategy to build back better, localize the UN SDGs, and address multiple climate change impacts.
  • Projected changes in bird assemblages due to climate change in a Canadian system of protected areas (2022) – The authors of this study used species distribution models to predict the change in environmental suitability (i.e., how well environmental conditions explain the presence of a species) of 49 Canadian national parks during summer and winter for 434 bird species under a 2°C warming scenario, anticipated to occur in Canada around the mid-21st century. They compared these to existing species distributions in the 2010s, and classified suitability projections for each species at each park as potential extirpation, worsening, stable, improving, or potential colonisation.  
  • Development and validation of an index to measure progress in adaptation to climate change at the municipal level (2022) - This study aimed to develop and validate an index of adaptation to heatwaves and flooding at the level of municipal urbanists and urban planners. A sample of 139 officers working in urbanism and urban planning for municipal entities in the province of Quebec (Canada) completed an online questionnaire. Developed based on a literature review and consultation of representatives from the municipal sector, the questionnaire measured whether the respondent’s municipal entity did or did not adopt the behaviors that are recommended in the scientific and gray literature to adapt to heatwaves and flooding.
  • The 2021 Western North America Heat Dome Increased Climate Change Anxiety Among British Columbians: Results from A Natural Experiment (2022) - Extreme weather events caused by climate change pose a risk to mental health. Illustrating this reality, this study estimates the impact of the 2021 Western North American heat dome (June 25th, 2021 – July 1st, 2021) on climate change anxiety among British Columbians.

Events (please note the time zone): 

  • Climate and Health Responder Course for Health Professionals (February 8 through April 5, 2022, 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST) - The Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education, Project ECHO, Health Canada and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) invite you to join an 8-week free online certificate course dedicated to giving health care professionals the tools to effectively respond to the climate and health crisis in their communities of practice. 
  • Join Canada’s Climate Change Adaptation Platform for a series of webinars on the Canada in a Changing Climate: National Issues Report. Learn more about how climate change is affecting our communities, environment and economy and how Canadians are adapting.
  • Webinar: Building a Resilient Canada February 8, 2022, 1:00pm – 2:00pm EST Join us for a webinar on Building a Resilient Canada, a new expert panel report from the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA). / Rejoignez-nous pour une présentation de Bâtir un Canada résilient, un nouveau rapport d’un comité d’experts du Conseil des académies canadiennes (CAC).
  • Canadian Centre for Climate Services (CCCS) IDF training webinar February 16, 2022, 1:00pm – 2:00pm EST. CCCS and the CSA Group are hosting a training webinar on Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) curves and climate change. This webinar will address why it is no longer appropriate to use IDF curves based on historical information alone for long-term planning, provide an overview of best practices for using IDF curves, and describe a better scaling approach.
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The
Climate Risk Institute Team
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