Resources – Various
Is today’s weather normal?
Search for your town or city to compare it to previous years. Check back daily to see breaking records and the forecast for where you live.
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Destructive Heat;
BC News – We must be ready for the impacts of climate change that are already here.
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Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world
– Carbon Brief
One study suggests that the Korean heatwave in the summer of 2013 had become 10 times more likely due to climate change, for example.
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The Voice of Present & Future Generations
Green Hope Foundation is an ECOSOC-accredited youth-led Not-for-Profit registered in Canada with operations in 26 countries.
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Empowering our children to change the world!
LSF’s mission is to promote, through education, the knowledge, skills, perspectives and practices essential to a sustainable future. LSF is transforming Canada’s education system through innovative programs that empower youth and educators to create more sustainable communities. Learning for a Sustainable Future (LSF) and Dr. Ellen Field, Faculty of Education, Lakehead University have collaborated on the implementation of Canada’s first National Climate Change Education Survey. Executive summary of the survey.
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How is Your Business Going to be Affected by Climate Change and What Should You Do to Prepare
Part of any business leader’s job is to ascertain the road ahead. What type of environment will your business be operating in next year, or in five years time? What changes could affect your core business model and is it possible to evolve strategies to meet the challenges with resilience?
Kate Templeton, Chief Outreach Executive, CompanyDebt.com
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About Building magazine
Since 1952, Building magazine has been Canada’s #1 building and urban development publication – reaching key segments of the architecture, building design and built environment community. Each issue of Building magazine reaches more than 10,000 qualified industry professionals nationally.
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New assessment from the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. This US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine: Negative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration – A Research Agenda (2018)
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QUEST – Canada is a national non-profit that supports communities in Canada on their pathway to net-zero. We develop tools and resources, convene stakeholders and rights holders and advise decision-makers
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i-Tree Eco version 6 is a flexible software application designed to use data collected in the field from single trees, complete inventories, or randomly located plots throughout a study area along with local hourly air pollution and meteorological data to quantify forest structure, environmental effects, and value to communities.
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ReNew Canada. Thousands of Canada’s infrastructure key players and policymakers turn to ReNew Canada for exclusive, insightful content to help them build resilient public assets. Along with coverage of all main sectors and regular columns on legal and financing trends, each issue explores timely news, best practices, and focused roundtables.
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Superblocks to the rescue: Barcelona’s plan to give streets back to residents
The Catalan capital’s radical new strategy will restrict traffic to a number of big roads, drastically reducing pollution and turning secondary streets into ‘citizen spaces’ for culture, leisure and the community
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Bay Area Voters Will Decide Next Month If They Want To Pay To Adapt To Sea Level Rise. California has long been a leader in tackling climate change. But in June, voters in the San Francisco Bay area will have the chance to take their state’s commitment to addressing the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation a step further.
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From understanding climate models to harnessing satellite imagery to assess environmental change, we are experts at turning complex scientific data into actionable information.
Cities and Water: Too Much, Too Little, But Not Too Late. Rotterdam Exchange,Water management and Multi – Benefit Solutions Lessons learned and Tactical Guidance
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Living Downtown Toronto Survey. [Mentioned in the previous article]
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Institute for Environmental Analytic
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New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States
See how the North American places where humans have lived for thousands of years will shift and what changes are in store for your county.
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Founded in 2014, is a vision and strategy tank that, in association with Global Brief magazine, aims to analyze and help provide real-life solutions to – and participate in solution-making for – some of the major geopolitical, political and social questions of this new century.
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Global Brief – World Affairs in the 21st Century
– is a top-tier international affairs magazine with a heavy global readership. Publishing quarterly in print and online out of the Institute for 21st Century Questions (21CQ), GB features the original works of leading and rising-star writers on world affairs writ large – international politics, business, culture, movements and trends.
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Canada at 100 Million
Building on the arguments made in the classical 2010 Global Brief article, “Canada – Population 100 Million,” which made national and international headlines, 21CQ will be making the case in favour of a Canada that, by the year 2100, is far larger, more energetic, more ambitious, and more powerful.
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Place Governance Trough Neighborhood Offices
By Nate Storring, Mar 23, 2016
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Disaster Response Simulation;
Strengthen your skills and put theory into practice with this free disaster response simulation course from Humanitarian U.
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Mission Innovation.
Breakthrough Energy is a network of entities and initiatives, including investment funds, nonprofit and philanthropic programs, and policy efforts linked by a common commitment to scale the technologies we need to achieve a path to net zero emissions by 2050.
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The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Climate change will have serious impacts for cities. In coming decades, building resilience will be essential urban policy and a smart investment for cities.
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Green Infrastructure Ontario. The Green Infrastructure Ontario (GIO) Coalition is an alliance of organizations that share a common vision for a healthy, green Ontario where the economic, social, environmental, and health benefits of green infrastructure are fully realized.. Founded in 2009, and guided by a steering committee, we work to promote awareness and understanding of green infrastructure, and to support policy and …
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Map of Adaptation Actions.
Explore examples of communities and sectors adapting to a changing climate across Canada. Learn about the steps Canadians are taking to understand how climate change affects them and the solutions they find to adapt and increase their resilience.
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