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Communities Adapting to Climate Change Initiative (CACCI): Climate Resiliency & Emergency Management Presented by:

Communities Adapting to Climate Change Initiative (CACCI): Climate Resiliency & Emergency Management Presented by: Jeff Zukiwsky, Community Liaison, CBT CACCI Mel Reasoner, CACCI Technical Team . Overview of Presentation. CACCI : Who we are and what we do

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  1. Communities Adapting to Climate Change Initiative (CACCI): Climate Resiliency & Emergency Management Presented by: Jeff Zukiwsky, Community Liaison, CBT CACCI Mel Reasoner, CACCI Technical Team

  2. Overview of Presentation CACCI:Who we are and what we do Climate Science: Future projections and impacts Working Together: How can we support your work? T I M E

  3. Canadian Columbia River Basin • About 30 communities • Largest community is Cranbrook @ 19,000 • 4Regional Districts: • RDEK, RDCK, RDKB, CSRD, • Geographical area: ~100,000 km2 • Total population: 161,000

  4. Communities Adapting to Climate Change Initiative (CACCI) CBT Communities Adapting to Climate Change Initiative

  5. What is Climate Adaptation? Anticipating the changes in climate that a community/region/organization is likely to experience and developing strategies to: • Reduce the unwanted or undesirable impacts of those changes • Optimize the desirable changes Climate Adaptation is Risk Management!

  6. Adaptation & Mitigation

  7. Resilience • In ecology, resilience is the capacity of an ecosystem to tolerate external disturbances and rebuild itself while maintaining the same basic identity. • A resilient communityhas developed its capacity to absorb future shocks and stresses to its social, economic, and technical systems and infrastructures such that it can maintain and enhance its functions, structures, systems, and identity.

  8. Climate Resilience

  9. What is Community Resilience Characteristics of resilient communities: • Flexibility: the ability to perform essential tasks under a wide range of conditions; • Redundancy:spare capacity for contingency situations in order to accommodate extreme or surge pressures or demand; and • Safe failure: systems are designed to fail predictably and safely.

  10. Community Support Phase 1 (2008/09): • Kimberley and Elkford: • Year-long planning processes Phase 2 (2009/10): • Rossland, Castlegar and Kaslo/ Area D: • Year-long planning processes Phase 3 (2011/13): • RDEK, Revelstoke, Sparwood, Salmo, Nelson, RDCK, Cranbrook: • One-day workshop and support to implement a climate resiliency project.

  11. Local Governments

  12. One-day Climate Resiliency Workshops • Communities: • Regional District of East Kootenay • District of Sparwood • City of Revelstoke • Village of Salmo • City of Nelson • Regional District of Central Kootenay • City of Cranbrook

  13. SDS Model Bylaw

  14. Castlegar: Infrastructure Vulnerability Assessment

  15. RDEK: Flood Hazard Study

  16. Revelstoke: Source Protection Plan

  17. Sparwood: Corporate Communications

  18. Sparwood: Corporate Communications

  19. Sparwood: Corporate Communications

  20. Sparwood: Corporate Communications

  21. Sparwood: Corporate Communications

  22. Salmo: Constructed Wetland

  23. Communicating Credible Climate Science

  24. Climate Extremes Report • Projections to 2050: • Considerable warming and more frequent occurrence of warm extremes • 2 to 11-fold increase in the occurrence of 25 year record extremely hot days by the 2050’s • Increase in frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation events • Events with 5, 10, and 25 year return periods projected to occur two to three times more frequently.

  25. Emergency Managers

  26. Questions… ?

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