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 15 (COP15)

United Nations Climate Change Conference - Copenhagen, Denmark, 7 - 18 December 2009



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.

ESANS has organized COP side events and signed international Memorandums Of Understandings (MOUs) with several international delegations. ESANS develops and coordinates specific in-house and open workshops on climate change. www.ESANS.ca.




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The 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly known as the Copenhagen Summit, was held at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark. The conference included the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 5th Meeting of the Parties (COP/MOP 5) to the Kyoto Protocol. According to the Bali Road Map, a framework for climate change mitigation beyond 2012 was to be agreed there.

The conference was preceded by the Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions scientific conference, which took place in March 2009 and was also held at the Bella Center. The negotiations began to take a new format when in May 2009 UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon attended the World Business Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen, organised by the Copenhagen Climate Council (COC), where he requested that COC councillors attend New York's Climate Week at the Summit on Climate Change on 22 September and engage with heads of government on the topic of the climate problem.