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Apply today for the UNFCCC Climate Negotiations "COP24" in Katowice, Poland

Do you have a strong interest in global climate governance?  Would you be able to further your research interests or career aspirations by interacting with delegates from across the world at COP24? Are you keen to act in a leadership role to engage others on campus, in the community and on the international stage in discussions about climate change? 

Join us October 3rd, 2018 at 11:00am (EV3-4412) for a seminar with Dr. Stephen Déry from the University of Nothern British Columbia. 

Title: Changing Northern Hemisphere snow conditions and their impacts to the snow hydrology of the Western Cordillera’s rivers 

Speaker: Stephen J. Déry​

Wild Weather Talks and Roundtable: Our Changing Climate

The À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Region Museum is hosting a special presentation and roundtable discussion about climate change in the Region of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ and across the globe. The Roundtable discussion will take place on March 22nd at the À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Region Museum.

Studies led by the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ, with a group of multinational researchers, have identified that climate change is threatening the future of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Temperatures are rising with the increase of global green house gas emissions, affecting the ability to reliably host the winter games across the globe. The average February daytime  temperature of the Olympic Winter Games locations is steadily increasing - from 0.48C in the 1920–1950s, to 3.18C in the 1960–1990s, to 7.88C in games held in the twenty-first century - intensifying the need for weather risk management strategies.

This week, political leaders from all over the world, including new Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, will arrive in Paris to negotiate a plan to fight global climate change. The University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ is sending a handful of students to be on the ground in the French capital as the historic agreement unfolds around them.

The Faculty of Environment and IC³Â would like to welcome Shawna Peddle as the new Director of Partners for Action (P4A).

Blair Feltmate, IC3 member and Intact Chair, Climate Adaptation, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ has been featured extensively in the media on the topic of responding to extreme weather in Canada and implementing climate adaptation strategies.

His latest  appeared in the Globe & Mail Strategies for Sustainability section today.

Adaptation, international development & knowledge translation

Student Research Spotlight: Visualizing climate change impacts in Atlantic Canada

The and today announced the creation of the Partners for Action (P4A) Network at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ's Faculty of Environment. The two founding partners have committed $1.1 million to the new applied research network, which will work to advance flood resiliency in Canada in the face of a changing climate.