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NCE UPDATE 20 August 2008 Article Headlines |
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| 1 | Human Health in a Changing Climate: A Canadian Assessment of Vulnerabilities and Adaptive Capacity.Health Canada is the Canadian Federal department responsible for helping Canadians maintain and improve their health, while respecting individual choices and circumstances. Health Canada is working with researchers and decision-makers across the country to better understand how a changing climate will affect human health and to determine the best ways to prepare for these changes. The following report has now been released: Human Health in a Changing Climate: A Canadian Assessment of Vulnerabilities and Adaptive Capacity. The Assessment Report is currently in print production. Due to the size of the report (484 pages), the Department is making it available by request. To receive low-resolution PDFs (8 megabytes) of the report via email, please contact ccadaptation@hc-sc.gc.ca. If you would like to receive an interactive CD of the report (to be available on August 22, 2008), please contact Health Canada's Publications. |
| 2 | International Arctic Change 2008 Conference: Quebec City 9-12, December 2008.The
ArcticNet Network of Centres of Excellence of Canada and its national
and international partners are welcoming the international Arctic
research community to Quebec City for the International Arctic Change
2008 Conference. Coinciding with the pinnacle of the International
Polar Year and the 400th anniversary of Quebec City, Arctic Change 2008
welcomes researchers, students, policy makers and stakeholders from all
fields of Arctic research and all countries to address the global
challenges and opportunities brought by climate change in the
circum-Arctic. With over 600 participants expected to attend, Arctic
Change 2008 will be the largest trans-sectoral international Arctic
research conference ever held in Canada.The conference will be held at
the Quebec City Convention Centre from 9-12 December 2008. Registration: On-line registration for the conference is now available on the Arctic Change 2008 website. |
| 3 | Canada’s Offset System for Greenhouse Gases: Guide for Protocol Developers releasedThe guide provides detailed information on how to prepare and complete an Offset System Quantification Protocol. This protocol describes the approach to identify and measure greenhouse gas reductions and eligible projects under Canada's Offset System. |
| 4 | Adapting to Climate Change: Canada's First National Engineering Vulnerability Assessment of Pubilc InfrastructureTo meet the climate change challenge, Engineers Canada and its partners have established the Public Infrastructure Engineering Vulnerability Committee . Co-funded by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) and Engineers Canada, the Vulnerability Committee is a major Canadian initiative involving all three levels of government and non-governmental organizations. It is looking broadly and systematically at infrastructure vulnerability to climate change from an engineering perspective. The Committee's work has resulted in the First National Engineering Vulnerability Assessment. |
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1 Warming climate threatens Alaska's vast forests KENAI NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Here in a 13,700-year-old peat bog, ecologist Ed Berg reaches into the moss and pulls out more evidence of the drastic changes afoot due to the Earth's warming climate. Read more at www.reuters.com |
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2 Arctic grazers unlikely climate-change culprits Two of Canada's iconic Arctic species - their habitats already threatened by rising temperatures and changing ice conditions - could soon be transformed from victims of global warming into unwitting climate-change culprits, according to a new U.S. study of caribou and muskox impacts on the polar environment. Read more at www.montrealgazette.com |
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3 Better than any classroom By Thulasi Srikanthan Boats drifting through the mist on the melting sea ice. Fingers brushing against towering icebergs. Trekking through a deteriorating glacier. These were some of the moments that 66 students got to experience on a one-of-a-kind trip to the far eastern reaches of Canada's Arctic. The group included students from 10 countries, including Canada, Norway and Afghanistan. Read more at www.ottawacitizen.com |
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4 Oxfam sees climate change role for E.Africa nomads NAIROBI, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Pastoralist communities like the Maasai could offer insights into coping with climate change in East Africa, but their political marginalisation means valuable knowledge is not being used, aid agency Oxfam said on Monday. Read more at www.reuters.com |
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5 Scientists study slow march of plants, trees into Canadian Arctic Federal researchers are using satellite photos of a national park in the western Arctic to show how climate change is prompting vegetation from southern Canada to creep into the tundra, possibly threatening the northern ecosystem. Read more at www.cbc.ca |
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6 'A new line on the map': Science at forefront of quest to claim seabed riches Read more at www.canada.com |
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The next update from the Northern Climate ExChange will be sent out Wednesday, August 27, 2008 |
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