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The University of Waterloo's applied research network, Partners for Action (P4A), released a new report "Canadian Voices on Flood Risk 2020: Findings from a national survey about how we should manage an increasingly costly and common peril". The report looks at Canadian’s perceptions and attitudes on flood risk awareness and management. 

IC3 member, Maria Strack, named fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) and member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.

The original story is available on the Faculty of Environment's website. 

The original news story is available on the Faculty of Arts website. 

IC3 member, Imre Szeman, is among the Royal Society of Canada’s Class of 2020. Professor Imre Szeman from the department of Communication Arts has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), one of Canada’s most distinguished scholarly honours. 

IC3 member Jason Thistlethwaite joins CBC host Laura Lynch on the new CBC Radio podcast What on Earth. In the episode "Will climate change make us retreat from the waterfront?" Jason shares his expertise on flood risk management in Canada. He discusses opportunities for government policies and management strategies to address climate change.

Faculty of Arts professor and environmental communication expert Imre Szeman joins group of scientists in launching the International Panel on Behavior Change (IPBC) association, an interdisciplinary, independent and apolitical entity.

IC3 member, Angela Carter, is an Associate Professor in Political Science and part of the Corporate Mapping Project, a research and public engagement project investigating the power and influence of the fossil fuel industry. Carter shares her climate change expertise in a recent article commenting on Canada's role in subsidizing the oil and gas industries during COVID-19.  

Read the article by Angela Carter from March 26th, 2020. 

With temperatures rising, many of central Canada's ski hills could be shuttered by end of century: report

The Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC³)'s Executive Director, Daniel Scott, shares his expertise on the impacts of climate change on Canada's ski industry on CBC's The Current with Matt Galloway.

Juan Moreno-Cruz is an associate professor at the School of Environment, Enterprise, and Development, University of Waterloo. His research involves the interaction of energy systems, technological change, and climate policy. Moreno-Cruz’s most recent work provides a look into the process of energy transitions by showing how access to energy affects the organization of the economy in cities, and the way energy consumption pollutes the environment.

In collaboration with the KW Chapter of the Council of Canadians, Divest Waterloo, and UW’s Faculty of Environment, the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change is hosting two events on June 18 and 19^th, 2019

IC3 members, Jason Thistlethwaite and Daniel Henstra, are in the media for their research on floods, flood risk maps, and climate change.