A network of environmental organizations that provide innovative climate change adaptation expertise in Canada and internationally.
Climate Canada Atlantic
Climate Canada Atlantic (CCA) activities are the cooperative efforts of a group of public sector, private sector, academic, and non-governmental organization representatives. Our clients include federal, provincial, and municipal governments in Canada; the public sector internationally; agencies and non-governmental organizations; international financial institutions; and the domestic and international private sector.CCA Members
Contributors include the original ClimAdapt group of private sector engineering and environmental consultants; the Environmental Services Association of Nova Scotia (ESANS); Acadia University and Dalhousie University; specialists in renewable energy, green house gas mitigation technology, and carbon markets; the Province of Nova Scotia, and the Government of Canada.Projects
Professional projects have covered a range of climate change risk management activities. These include green house gas mitigation technology, renewable energy applications, carbon offset market solutions, atmospheric chamber simulations, weather trends and forecasting, policy development, and climate change adaptation decision making. Tool kit or guideline type documents have been produced for incorporating climate change adaptation into environmental impact assessments, environmental management systems, and the design, development and management of infrastructure decision-making.Conference of the Parties 13 (COP13)
United Nations Climate Change Conference - Nusa Dua, Bali, 3 - 14 December 2007The Conference, hosted by the Government of Indonesia, brings together representatives of over 180 countries together with observers from intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, and the media. The two week period includes the sessions of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC, its subsidiary bodies as well as the Meeting of the Parties of the Kyoto Protocol. A ministerial segment in the second week will conclude the Conference.
These Climate Canada Atlantic members who attended:
DeRomilly and DeRomilly |
IDI |
BTE Engineering |
ESANS has official Observer status under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN FCCC), and we have had a Climate Canada Atlantic presence at the annual Conference of the Parties (COP) since the Montreal COP 11 in 2005. We have organized COP side events and signed international Memorandums Of Understandings (MOUs) with several international delegations. We develop and coordinate specific in-house and open workshops on climate change. Information is available on the March 2008 conference for Halifax, Nova Scotia that we are organizing (Atlantic Climate Change 2008: Risks, Responses, and Tools for Action) at www.ESANS.ca.
