Climate Plan for Resilience on Cortes Island

In Canada, climate change is altering local environmental patterns, damaging built infrastructure, causing acute injuries during natural catastrophes, and leading to chronic health issues. Rural and remote island and coastal communities have been disproportionately impacted by climate change and climate events. As such, climate scientists globally have been calling for climate change planning efforts and action plans. This project will include an environmental scan, community consultation, survey, and community workshop community to identify the priorities and experiences with climate change on Cortes Island, current carbon emissions sources and levels, existing climate mitigation and adaptation efforts, and collective goals for sustainability in the future. The work undertaken in this project will directly inform Cortes Island’s first Climate Resiliency Plan.

Faculty Supervisor:

Maya Gislason

Student:

Partner:

Friends of Cortes Island Society

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Sustainability & the Environment

University:

Simon Fraser University

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