Freshwater Future's Fall Climate Symposium: Help Your Community Adapt to Climate Change
October 12-13, 2012 • Duluth, MN
Overview
Freshwater Future and EcoAdapt teamed up again to offer the 5th climate adaptation symposium to learn how to incorporate climate change elements into existing work, connect with climate adaptation resources for your work, and network with others.
The workshop included ways to help participants start developing adaptation projects- by exploring the following questions and grant resources: - What is climate adaptation and what will it mean for your community?
- How can climate change impact your organization's work?
- What are the communities around the Great Lakes and across the country doing to build climate resistance?
- How can you make your organization's work climate-savvy?
- Freshwater Future's Climate Grants Program
Click here to view the Duluth Climate Symposium YouTube workshop overview by David Syring.
Agenda & Speakers
- Adapting Your Work for Climate Change- Lara Hansen
- Climate Change Impacts in the Great Lakes and What People Are Doing About It- Jessica Hitt
- Lake Superior Ecosystem Climate Change Adaptation Plan- Lynelle Hanson
- How to Make Your Community and Work Climate Savvy-Lara Hansen
- Communication About Climate Change - Lara Hansen
- "Is this Adaptation? "- Quiz Show
- Tool and Resources for Climate Adaptation Work in the Great Lakes- Jessica Hitt
Reading & Resources
Great Lakes Region-specific information
- EcoAdapt's State of Climate Change Adaptation in the Great Lakes Region - A project to survey, catalog, and assess climate adaptation activities in the Great Lakes region, especially focused on freshwater-related efforts in the natural and built environments.
- Great Lakes Climate Adaptation Toolkit- One component of Freshwater Future’s Great Lakes Community Climate Program, to assist with implementation of on-the-ground adaptation projects.
- NOAA's Climate Ready Great Lakes Training Modules- Great source of information on impacts, adaptation, and tools.
- NOAA’s Adapting to Climate Change: A Planning Guide for State Coastal Managers–A Great Lakes Supplement
- Improving the Odds: Using Climate-Readiness Planning to Reduce the Impacts of Climate Change on the Great Lakes Ecosystem. National Wildlife Federation. 2010.
- Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts Good source for regional information and resources, including climate projections.
- Great Lakes Restoration & the Threat of Global Warming. Dempsey, D., J. Elder, and D. Scavia. 2008. A Report by the Healing Our Waters - Great Lakes Coalition
- Adaptation Collaboratory- a resource for research, education, and collaboration in the area of adaptation and climate change.
- Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (CAKE)- EcoAdapt, in partnership with Island Press, developed CAKE, an online, georeferenced adaptation resource.
- CRiSTAL- Community-based Risk Screening Tool – Adaptation and Livelihoods
- Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments (GLISA)
- Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS)
- NOAA’s Digital Coast. Provides tools, training, data, and case histories of how these tools have been used for climate adaptation and other coastal management issues, which includes CanVis, Open-source Nonpoint Source Pollution and Erosion Comparison Tool (OpenNSPECT), and Habitat Priority Planner.
- Preparing for Climate Change: A Guidebook for Local, Regional, and State Governments ICLEI, King County, and the Climate Impacts Group. 2007
- WWF Climate Witness Program - Beyond witnessing climate change impacts many Climate Witnesses demonstrate real action and set examples that we can all follow.