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COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANSADAPTATION PLANS
NUNAVUT 2007 - 2010
Beate Bowron & Gary Davidson
CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PLANNERS (CIP)
WHAT IS CIP? A not-for-profit organization of professional planners in
Canada 7,000 members in 7 Affiliates All types of planners:
environmental transportation social economic development community government, NGO and private sector
COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANS
CONTEXT CIP working with Government of Nunavut (GN) since
2006 CIP/NRCan/GN cooperation 2007 - 2008 Nunavut Climate Change Partnership
2009 – 2011 (INAC funded) Six pilot community adaptation plans
completed Chapter in new Iqaluit Community
Land Use Plan Draft Nunavut Adaptation Planning
Toolkit
COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANS
APPROACH Learning from Phase 1 (limited resources) Community-based planning Cooperation among planners and scientists The three pillars of knowledge Planning teams free to develop their own detailed
approaches Working in translation
COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANS
CHOOSING THE PLANNING TEAMS Two volunteer professional planners per team Experience Complementary technical and facilitation skills Gender balance High degree of
interest among
CIP members Planners from
across Canada
COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANS
CHOOSING THE COMMUNITIES Phase 1:
Hall Beach and Clyde River volunteered No formal agreement
Phase 2: Regional balance Various community sizes Initial contact by Climate Change Coordinator Letter of agreement with selected communities
COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANS
WORKING WITH THE SCIENTISTS Background information The challenge of coordinating field
work Community “walkabouts” Review of “science” portion of
draft plans
COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANS
PREPARING THE ADAPTATION PLANS
Lessons for Phase 2: 5 visits to communities Involving GN planners and local staff Integrating planning and science work as much as
possible Planning team briefing session including scientists and
GN officials
COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANS
PREPARING THE ADAPTATION PLANS
Visit 1 Orientation Stakeholder identification Contact with hamlet Work plans
Visit 2 “Walkabouts” with scientists Talk to community groups Involve Elders Visit school/youth groups Contact with hamlet
COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANS
PREPARING THE ADAPTATION PLANS Visit 3
Community- wide events to raise awareness of climate change issues and begin discussing possible actions (community meetings; community feast; art contest; Elders’ story-telling)
Community workshops to set priorities for action Contact with hamlet
COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANS
PREPARING THE ADAPTATION PLANS Visit 4
Draft plan presentation and feedback: stakeholders; community meetings; workshop; radio phone-in show
Contact with hamlet
Visit 5 Final revised plan and presentation to community, including
Hamlet Council
COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANS
WHAT IS A CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLAN? Integration of scientific/Elder/community knowledge Lists climate change impacts (thawing permafrost; sea
level rise; changing ice conditions; new species; changing vegetation)
Determines level of risks to community Identifies actions that need to be taken (What can we do;
What should others do? Who should take the lead?) Sets priorities for actions Feeds into other Nunavut strategies like community land
use plans, emergency management plans, infrastructure plans, capital budgets
COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANS
CONCLUSIONS CIP teams completed 7 community climate change
adaptation planning processes Resulting plans and posters reflect different approaches Valuable as base for Nunavut Climate Change
Adaptation Planning Toolkit Once Toolkit has been finalized, GN planners and others
will be able to take climate change adaptation planning to Nunavut’s remaining communities
COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANS
CONCLUSIONS
All community climate change adaptation plans and posters are available at:
www.planningforclimatechange.ca
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