The following is a list of climate change adaptation resources for communities, adapted from the handout distributed by Robin Sydneysmith at the Communities and Climate Change: Planning for Impacts and Adaptations workshop held in Prince George, May 17th, 2006. By no means is this a complete list, and if you would like to add your organization or project, please contact us.
Local / Regional:
1. Reducing Canada’s Vulnerability to Climate Change (NRCan)
Municipal Case Studies: The Planning Process and Climate Change
a) Phil Hill et al – Corporation of Delta; Impacts of Sea Level Rise
b) Ian J Walker – Graham Island (Haida Gwaii); Impacts of Sea Level Rise
a) Phil Hill et al – Corporation of Delta; Impacts of Sea Level Rise
b) Ian J Walker – Graham Island (Haida Gwaii); Impacts of Sea Level Rise
2. Canadian Model Forest Network - Climate Change Strategic Initiative
a) Vanderhoof Community Vulnerability Assessment pilot project
b) Guidebook: A Framework for Assessing Vulnerability of Forest-based Communities to Climate Change (download)
Tim Williamson, Canadian Forest Service
3. Ministry of Forests and Range
Vanessa N. Egginton, M.Sc., Research Climatologist (Aux)
Northern Interior Forest Region, 1011-4th Avenue Prince George, BC, 250-565-4333.
Northern Interior Forest Region, 1011-4th Avenue Prince George, BC, 250-565-4333.
4. Columbia Basin Trust
The Columbia Basin Trust, with the assistance of a Steering Committee of climate change and adaptation scientists, has developed and distributed a pamphlet entitled "Climate Change in the Canadian Columbia Basin: Starting the Dialogue". This document will provide the preliminary information on climate change needed to initiate dialogue on this issue in the communities of the region. Pamphlet.
Provincial
1. Canadian Climate Impacts and Adaptation Research Network (C-CIARN)
a) BC Region – Robin Sydneysmith
b) North Region - Michael Westlake
b) Forest Sector – Adam Wellstead
b) North Region - Michael Westlake
b) Forest Sector – Adam Wellstead
2. Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (Canadian Institute for Climate Studies)
Trevor Murdock - http://pacificclimate.org/ ; http://www.cics.uvic.ca/
3. BC MoE – Environmental Protection Division – Water, Air and Climate Change Branch
Climate Change Section
a) Lee Thiessen - Section Manager – contact for info about BC gov’t climate change policy
b) Jenny Fraser - Climate Change Adaptation Specialist
c) Ben Kangasniemi - Climate Science Specialist
a) Lee Thiessen - Section Manager – contact for info about BC gov’t climate change policy
b) Jenny Fraser - Climate Change Adaptation Specialist
c) Ben Kangasniemi - Climate Science Specialist
4. BC Ministry of Forest and Range - Preparing for Climate Change
a) Kathy Hopkins - Climate Change Technical Advisor - http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/mof/Climate_Change/
5. Adaptation & Impacts Research Division (AIRD) / Institute for Resources Environment & Sustainability (IRES)
http://www.ires.ubc.ca/aird/
Climate Change Adaptation, Mitigation and Linkages with Sustainable Development (AMSD) Case studies - Stewart Cohen et al.
6. National Assessment of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation, BC Chapter
Ian J Walker, Robin Sydneysmith, et al.
http://www.c-ciarn.ca/index_e.html
7. Royal BC Museum Maps
This map series on projected climate scenarios illustrates how BC’s landscape may look over the next 80 years. They are accesible on the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC) website: http://www.pacificclimate.org/scenarios/rbcmuseum/.
8. BC Sustainable Energy Association
9. david suzuki foundation: solving global warming
National:
1. Adapting to Climate Change: An Introduction for Canadian Municipalities
Published by Canadian Climate Impacts and Adaptation Research Network (CCIARN) http://www.c-ciarn.ca/index_e.asp?CaId=13&PgId=154
2. Canadian Climate Impacts and Adaptation Program (NRCan)
3. Adaptation and Impacts Research Group (Environment Canada)
"The Adaptation and Impacts Research Group is working to promote and facilitate adaptation to atmospheric change, variability and extremes and to assist in identifying the need for other response options." http://www.msc-smc.ec.gc.ca/airg/index_e.cfm
4. Canadian Center for Climate Modelling and Analysis
CCCma is a division of the Climate Research Branch of the Meteorological Service of Canada of Environment Canada. CCCma conducts research in coupled and atmospheric climate modelling, sea-ice modelling, climate variability and predictability, the carbon cycle, and a number of other areas. The Centre is located on the University of Victoria campus, in the Ian Stewart Complex. http://www.cccma.bc.ec.gc.ca/eng_index.shtml
5. Canadian Model Forest Network - Climate Change Strategic Initiative
http://www.modelforest.net/cmfn/en/initiatives/climate_change/default.aspx
Michael Slivitzky, Program Officer, Canada’s Model Forest Program
6. Canadians for Kyoto
http://www.canadiansforkyoto.com/
7. Canadian Youth Climate Coalition
International
1. New Zealand Government Climate Change Adaptation Initiatives
2. United Kingdom Climate Impacts Program
3. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
http://www.ipcc.ch/. The IPCC has been established by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme to assess scientific, technical and socio- economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation. Read the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report, released February 2007.
4. Greenpeace International
5. International Climate Change Partnership
http://www.iccp.net/. The ICCP is a global coalition of companies and trade associations from diverse industries committed to constructive and responsible participation in the international policy process concerning global climate change.
6. Center for International Climate and Environmental Research
http://www.cicero.uio.no/index_e.asp. CICERO’s mission is to provide reliable and comprehensive knowledge about all aspects of the climate change problem.
7. Clinton Global Initiative - Energy and Climate Change
http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?&pid=375&srcid=346. The Clinton Global Initiative will explore specific steps for cutting emissions of heat-trapping gases and shaping a clean energy future.
8. Climate Justice - Enforcing Climate Change Law
The aim of the international and collaborative Climate Justice Programme is to ensure that laws related to climate change are enforced so that the necessary cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are made.
