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N-ZAP has released a new Climate Budgeting Guide designed to support Canadian municipalities and local governments in incorporating climate commitments into decision-making and budget allocation. The new guide makes it easier to use climate budgeting to put climate plans into action.

À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Climate Institute partners with the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction for the Americas and the Caribbean to lead international disaster risk workshop. Supply systems are fundamental to the business ecosystem. To strengthen the resilience of these supply systems in regions facing growing climate risks, there is a need to better understand how they work, identify the vulnerabilities, and recognize shared opportunities for risk reduction. This will enable better long-term investment in climate change adaptation.  

A new technical brief from the À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Climate Institute explores Direct Air Capture (DAC) as an innovative engineering approach to directly removing carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the atmosphere. Contributing to the overall reduction of atmospheric CO₂ levels, DAC has the potential to effectively mitigate climate change, when used in combination with permanent storage solutions. Authors Monica Ho, Vahid Barahimi and Climate Institute member Eric Croiset outline the current readiness of DAC technologies and acknowledge their limitations the latest brief.

The Climate Pedagogy Symposium brought together educators from higher education institutions across the À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ region to share innovative approaches to climate change education (CCE). Hosted collaboratively by the À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Climate Institute at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ, Conestoga College, and Wilfrid Laurier University, the event facilitated discussions on decolonizing CCE, active learning strategies, reflective and reflexive teaching, interdisciplinarity, and addressing climate emotions. 

A project with À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Climate Institute Executive Director, Sarah Burch, launched a new pilot experimental project using field research data on community disaster risk and strategies to explore visualizations of possible futures using digital design and augmented reality. The pilot will explore different facets of transformation due to global environmental change and extreme weather events.

University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ researchers, in partnership with universities and key stakeholders in Mauritius, Maldives and Fiji, are co-creators of the , recipients of $1.2 million in funding. Together, they will identify each island’s exposure and risk to climate change and determine scalable strategies to address challenges that impede the availability of resources, materials and critical services, such as food, water, energy and health care. 

Brent Doberstein, À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Climate Institute member and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environment is the Principal Investigator for a research project awarded $2.5M to study Managed Retreat. Managed retreat (MR), defined as "the purposeful relocation of people, property, and critical infrastructure out of areas vulnerable to recurrent climatic hazards," is emerging as a potentially transformative adaptation approach that offers opportunities for both risk reduction and advancement of social justice. 

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Municipalities are responsible for over half of Canada's greenhouse gas emissions, making them crucial players in the fight against climate change. But existing gaps in critical climate planning and reporting data can make it challenging to keep the public informed on progress toward net zero by 2050.

A pair of University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ flood disaster experts have published an analysis on the federal government’s national flood insurance program that finds the proposed plan can do more to make insurance abundant and affordable for Canadian taxpayers. 

À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ launches first-of-its-kind interdisciplinary graduate diploma in climate change to provide additional resources for the global climate crisis.