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COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANSADAPTATION PLANS

NUNAVUT 2007 - 2010

Beate Bowron & Gary Davidson

CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PLANNERS (CIP)

WHAT IS CIP? A not-for-profit organization of professional planners in

Canada 7,000 members in 7 Affiliates All types of planners:

environmental transportation social economic development community government, NGO and private sector

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CONTEXT CIP working with Government of Nunavut (GN) since

2006 CIP/NRCan/GN cooperation 2007 - 2008 Nunavut Climate Change Partnership

2009 – 2011 (INAC funded) Six pilot community adaptation plans

completed Chapter in new Iqaluit Community

Land Use Plan Draft Nunavut Adaptation Planning

Toolkit

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PHASE 1 Clyde River Hall Beach

Clyde River Hall Beach

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PHASE 2ArviatCambridge BayIqaluitKugluktukWhale Cove

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APPROACH Learning from Phase 1 (limited resources) Community-based planning Cooperation among planners and scientists The three pillars of knowledge Planning teams free to develop their own detailed

approaches Working in translation

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CHOOSING THE PLANNING TEAMS Two volunteer professional planners per team Experience Complementary technical and facilitation skills Gender balance High degree of

interest among

CIP members Planners from

across Canada

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CHOOSING THE COMMUNITIES Phase 1:

Hall Beach and Clyde River volunteered No formal agreement

Phase 2: Regional balance Various community sizes Initial contact by Climate Change Coordinator Letter of agreement with selected communities

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WORKING WITH THE SCIENTISTS Background information The challenge of coordinating field

work Community “walkabouts” Review of “science” portion of

draft plans

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PREPARING THE ADAPTATION PLANS

Lessons for Phase 2: 5 visits to communities Involving GN planners and local staff Integrating planning and science work as much as

possible Planning team briefing session including scientists and

GN officials

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PREPARING THE ADAPTATION PLANS

Visit 1 Orientation Stakeholder identification Contact with hamlet Work plans

Visit 2 “Walkabouts” with scientists Talk to community groups Involve Elders Visit school/youth groups Contact with hamlet

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PREPARING THE ADAPTATION PLANS Visit 3

Community- wide events to raise awareness of climate change issues and begin discussing possible actions (community meetings; community feast; art contest; Elders’ story-telling)

Community workshops to set priorities for action Contact with hamlet

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PREPARING THE ADAPTATION PLANS Visit 4

Draft plan presentation and feedback: stakeholders; community meetings; workshop; radio phone-in show

Contact with hamlet

Visit 5 Final revised plan and presentation to community, including

Hamlet Council

COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANS

WHAT IS A CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLAN? Integration of scientific/Elder/community knowledge Lists climate change impacts (thawing permafrost; sea

level rise; changing ice conditions; new species; changing vegetation)

Determines level of risks to community Identifies actions that need to be taken (What can we do;

What should others do? Who should take the lead?) Sets priorities for actions Feeds into other Nunavut strategies like community land

use plans, emergency management plans, infrastructure plans, capital budgets

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CONCLUSIONS CIP teams completed 7 community climate change

adaptation planning processes Resulting plans and posters reflect different approaches Valuable as base for Nunavut Climate Change

Adaptation Planning Toolkit Once Toolkit has been finalized, GN planners and others

will be able to take climate change adaptation planning to Nunavut’s remaining communities

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CONCLUSIONS

All community climate change adaptation plans and posters are available at:

www.planningforclimatechange.ca

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CIP is a proud partner in Atuliqtuq: Action & Adaptation

The Nunavut Climate Change Partnership

THANK YOU!