Islands Trust Climate Action Speaker Series recorded webinars.
Through the webinar series participants will learn how they can support climate change adaptation and resilience at home and in their communities.
Rainwater Harvesting – Presented by Shannon Cowan, Coordinator, Salt Spring Island Watershed Protection Alliance, and William Shulba, Senior Freshwater Specialist, Islands Trust
Ecosystem Based Adaptation – Presented by Ruth Waldick, Ecosystem-based Adaptation Specialist, Ecological Research Network and Tine Rossing, Ecosystem-based Adaptation Specialist, Ecolibrio Consulting
Eelgrass: A Climate Hero – Presented by Aimee McGowan, Blue Carbon Researcher, SFU, Resource and Environmental Management, Victoria Postlethwaite, Blue Carbon Researcher, SFU, Resource and Environmental Management, and Nikki Wright, Eelgrass Conservationists, SeaChange Marine Conservation Society
Here is the link to all three: Stewardship Education Program (islandstrust.bc.ca)
Glossary
Important climate related definitions from Federal Adaptation Policy Framework for climate change – Canada.ca
Adaptation: Adjustment in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climatic stimuli or their effects that moderates harm or exploits beneficial opportunities.
Climate: The average weather, usually expressed in terms of the parameters temperature, precipitation, and wind.
Climate change: A change in the mean and/or the variability of climate parameters over a period of time ranging from months to thousands or millions of years.
Greenhouse gases: Gases, both natural and anthropogenic, that absorb infrared radiation in the atmosphere, causing warming of the earth. Water vapour, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane, and ozone are the primary greenhouse gases.
Mitigation: Intervention to reduce the sources or enhance the sinks of greenhouse gases.
Resilience: Capacity of people and systems to absorb negative impacts and respond to changing climate conditions.
Risk: A combination of the likelihood (probability of occurrence) and the consequences of an event.
Risk management: A systematic approach to setting the course of action under conditions of uncertainty, by applying management policies, procedures, and practices to the analysis, evaluation, control, and communication about risk issues.
Sink: Any process, activity or mechanism that removes a greenhouse gas, an aerosol, or a precursor of a greenhouse gas or aerosol from the atmosphere.