On April 22nd 2020, the Open Climate Collabathon launched a year-long event to leverage technological expertise found around the world for developing a climate accounting system.
Canada’s largest national conference on climate change adaptation was held last month in Vancouver, British Columbia. This conference brought together practitioners and academics from coast to coast to coast, including members of the Canadian Coastal Resilience Forum.
How should coastal communities in Nova Scotia cope with increased sea level rise and extreme flooding? This question motivated community members, property owners, Indigenous communities and governments to realign a section of Nova Scotia's North Onslow dyke in order to strengthen resilience to natural hazards and mitigate future flood risks.
The coast is emblematic of Nova Scotia, its people and its culture. About 70% of Nova Scotia’s population resides along the coast making this “coastal zone” a place where private and public development has concentrated over the years.
Sea level rise and climate change pose a serious threat for coastal properties and populations in this Atlantic Canada province. Not only does infrastructure becomes at risk of permanent inundation, but important industries to the economy can also be impacted, such as through more frequent business interruptions from damaging storm surges.
Earlier this month, Jason Thistlethwaite—Lead of the Canadian Coastal Resilience Forum—attended CatIQ’s Canadian Catastrophe Conference (C4) held in Gatineau, Quebec.
C4 gathers perspectives across the government, academia, for- and non-profit sectors to discuss strategies on how to prepare, respond and recover from natural and man-made disasters.