Adaptation Planning in Eastern Ontario Workshop
Carleton Place Town Hall Auditorium, Carleton Place, Ontario February 2, 2012
OCCIAR, in partnership with the Mississippi Valley Conservation (MVC) and the Community Stewardship Council of Lanark County present "Adaptation Planning in Eastern Ontario - A climate change workshop". The objectives of this capacity building workshop were:
- to provide a forum for attendees to communicate their interests and activities in the area of climate change impacts and adaptation
- to hear from a variety of experts conducting work and research in the field of climate change impacts and adaptation
- to initiate the development of a watershed/regionally-based adaptation discussion group
Participants heard presentations from a series of experts:
- Some Recent Developments in Climate Change Science, Impacts and Adaptation
Don Lemmen, Natural Resources Canada
- Climate Ready: Ontario's Adaptation Strategy and Action Plan (2011-2014)
Louis Des Rosiers and Kathleen O'Neill, Ontario Ministry of the Environment
- Integrating Climate Change into Watershed Policy
Paul Lehman, Mississippi Valley Conservation
- Climate Change and Eastern Ontario Fish Populations: Driving Environmental Factors and Shifting Baselines - What to expect, how to adapt
John M. Casselman, Queen's University
- Building Adaptive Communities in Eastern Ontario
Robert McLeman, University of Ottawa
- Enabling Climate Change Watershed Adaptation Across Ontario: Access and Discovery Through the Gateway
Quentin Chiotti, ACER
- Ontario Weather and Water Information Gateway
James Britton, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources