Official Launch will take place at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 27 at the Film House at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre in downtown St. Catharines, Ontario
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Posted November 15th, 2019 on Niagara At Large
You can’t point at any one climate-related episode and say with certainty that it was caused by climate change. On the other hand, here we were again this past spring, seeing near record-high waters in Lake Ontario for the second time in just three years, and walls of sandbags, like these in Port Dalhousie, St. Catharines, put there to protest shore area property from water damage. File photo by Doug Draper
Niagara, Ontario – A new alliance between seven Niagara region municipalities and Brock University’s Environmental Sustainability Research Centre (ESRC) is being created to aggressively seek innovative strategies that address how climate change is impacting the region.
The impacts that inflict a growing toll on communities are typically tied to increasingly volatile weather, such as rising average temperatures; summer droughts followed by heavy rains; and the increasing frequency and intensity of frost-free days and freeze-thaw cycles.
The partnership, aptly named Niagara Adapts, will leverage resources and expertise from ESRC and the Town of Grimsby, Town of Lincoln, City of Niagara Falls, Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Town of Pelham, City of St. Catharines and City of Welland. The goal of the partnership is to support collaborative climate change adaptation assessment, planning and implementation.
This film will be screened at the launch
Climate change adaptation planning enables communities to understand their vulnerabilities and manage the impacts, risks and opportunities posed by a changing climate. The Niagara Adapts partnership will cultivate a community of practice for climate change adaptation planning and build climate resilience in the region into the future.
The official launch will take place at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 27 at the Film House at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre.
The launch will include a free community screening of the film Resilience, which highlights local stories of climate change action. Jessica Blythe, Assistant Professor, ESRC, will host a post-screening discussion and reception with representatives from the Niagara Adapts partnership.
A limited number of free digital tickets<https://www.firstontariopac.ca/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=EventArticle-19FILM11-resilience&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=> are now available for anyone interested in attending.
Several members of the ESRC authored an article that appeared today in The Conversation<https://theconversation.com/3-ways-cities-can-prepare-for-climate-emergencies-125536> about ways cities can prepare for climate emergencies.
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