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)
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)
3. Ministry of Forests and Range
Northern Interior Forest Region, 1011-4th Avenue Prince George, BC, 250-565-4333.
4. Columbia Basin Trust
Provincial
1. Canadian Climate Impacts and Adaptation Research Network (C-CIARN)
b) North Region - Michael Westlake
b) Forest Sector – Adam Wellstead
2. Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (Canadian Institute for Climate Studies)
3. BC MoE – Environmental Protection Division – Water, Air and Climate Change Branch
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
2. Canadian Climate Impacts and Adaptation Program (NRCan)
3. Adaptation and Impacts Research Group (Environment Canada)
4. Canadian Center for Climate Modelling and Analysis
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/
