Atlin Workshop:
Preparing For Change –
Managing Climate Change Risks in the Atlin Area

Contents

Appendix 3:
Agenda

Where: Atlin Recreation Centre
When: March 26, 27, 28 (working group sessions) and March 30 and 31 (Community Workshop)

Each of the three sessions takes place at the Atlin Recreation Center, 6-9 pm over dinner

Session 1: Land Based Occupations and Traditions
Fishing, Hunting, Trapping, Watershed and Land-based issues, Culture, Health and Well-being

Session 2: Local Economy
Forestry, Mining, Tourism, Recreation, Local Businesses

Session 3: Infrastructure and Planning
Micro-hydro electricity, Energy, Highways, Sewage, Emergency Services, Buildings, Transportation

On Friday, March 30 and Saturday, March 31st the doors will open for a public workshop / conference, beginning with a community feast.

5:15 pm	Screening: Through Arctic Eyes (Yukon film on climate change), 30 mins.
6:00 pm	Opening Prayer and Introductions
6:15 pm	What is climate change? (Northern Climate ExChange) Introduction to adaptation (Northern Climate ExChange)
7:00 pm	COMMUNITY FEAST
7:20 pm	Presentation: Lessons Learned – Community-based adaptation planning in Southwest Yukon (Haines Junction Area) Roger Brown, Champagne Aishihik First Nation
8:00 pm	Community Impacts Register (step 1): Collection of locally observed impacts. Record impacts on massive sheets of paper hung around the room (for future referral)
9:00 pm	Conclude the day, outline tomorrow

8:30 am	CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
9:00 am	Interactive Risk Assessment Analysis (step 2): Using lists on the wall created last night, prioritize, estimate, and evaluate each risk, grouping impacts into categories and themes.
9:45 am	Interactive Climate Impacts Modeling Tool: Scenario for Atlin Region Trevor Murdoch (Pacific Climate Consortium, University of Victoria)
10:15 am	BREAK
10:30 am	Mainstreaming Climate Change: Incorporating climate change into planning and policy Tristan Pearce and Dr. James Ford (University of Guelph/McGill University/ArcticNorth Consulting)
11:15 am	Presentation of results from pre-workshop working groups (15 min each)
12:00 pm	LUNCH
1:00 pm	Breakout groups (3 questions to answer in each group) Is there anything that the Stakeholder groups have missed? Given what has been presented today on tools and on mainstreaming climate change, what can we do as a community, and what do we have to do? What hinders our ability to adapt both as an individual and as a community? What are the barriers? Next steps?
2:30 pm	BREAK
2:45 pm	Presentations from each breakout group – Discussion of next steps
3:45 pm	Conclusion, Thanks and Closing Prayer – open socializing

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