IISD at Adaptation Canada 2016
IISD participated in Adaptation Canada 2016, a national symposium showcasing Canada’s preparedness for managing risks associated with changing climate. IISD staff made the following panel presentations:
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Livia Bizikova (Director, Knowledge for Integrated Decisions) presented at "Vulnerability Analysis of Complex Systems: Advances for the Built Environment and Urban Planning."
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Henry David Venema (Director of Planning, Prairie Climate Centre) chaired the panel "Levers to Mainstream Adaptation Effectively: Lessons and Best Practices from Western Canada" in which Danny Blair (Associate Dean, Faculty of Science, University of Winnipeg) presented on the Prairie Climate Centre.
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Hayley Price-Kelly (Project Manager, Resilience) presented as part of the panel "Monitoring and Evaluation – Tracking adaptation at global to local scales."
For more information, visit the Adaptation Canada 2016 website.
Upcoming events
A Municipal Perspective on the Value of Natural Infrastructure
This webinar will showcase examples the cost-effectiveness of natural infrastructure from a municipal perspective. Focusing on what municipalities need—what evidence and numbers they rely on, and what tools and planning processes are required to ensure that natural infrastructure is assessed alongside traditional infrastructure for cost-effectiveness.
COP 29 | From Toolkit to Reality: Designing MEL systems to inform the UAE Framework for Global Climate Resilience
This COP 29 side event aims to increase the knowledge and capacity of national governments, as well as actors supporting them, in developing and strengthening monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) systems for NAP processes.
Building Bridges: The State of Nature-Based Investments
Join us for a panel at the Building Bridges conference in Geneva, Switzerland, to discuss the state-of-play of nature-based investments and the potential opportunities they present.
Through Her Lens: Women leading change in sustainable agriculture and market inclusion
Despite the critical role that women play in agricultural production, they still do not have equal access to global agricultural supply chains on terms that benefit them.