Associated Engineering is co-sponsoring a virtual launch event for the Resilience Pathways Report with Natural Resources Canada, on October 28th and 31st. We invite practitioners, researchers, policy makers, and decision makers in various fields to attend, who can and are taking action for reducing disaster risk and adapting to climate change impacts in public and private sectors. Registration is free, click here for more details.

The Resilience Pathways Report convened and connected more than 70 experts from a wide range of institutions and disciplines sharing a wealth of knowledge and strategic insights about disaster and climate risk management. The report highlights successes, challenges, and gaps and provides recommendations for the path forward in enhancing disaster and climate risk management approaches.

The report consists of a Strategic Summary for Policymakers and 18 short and easy to read articles under four chapters:

Chapter 1: Understanding and Managing Climate and Disaster Risk: Hazard Threat
Chapter 2: Climate and Disaster Risk Management: Practice
Chapter 3: Climate and Disaster Risk Management: Enabling Action
Chapter 4: Climate and Disaster Risk Management: Research

Although most of the articles are focused on BC, they share knowledge on risk management issues that are not only unique to BC, and the identified challenges and recommendations can have relevance across Canada and in other countries.

Resilience Pathways was funded by the Canadian Safety and Security Program and led by Natural Resources Canada. Sahar Safaie of Sage on Earth Consulting designed the initiative and supported the authors throughout the process, including technical review of the articles. We are pleased to share that Sahar is now collaborating with the Strategic Advisory Services team at Associated Engineering, and supporting clients in assessing and managing disaster and climate risk through designing effective policies and innovative engineering, social, and environmental solutions.

For further information on the Resilience Pathways Report and the launch event, please contact Sahar at safaies@ae.ca.

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Associated Engineering is supporting the City of Burlington to develop a climate change adaptation plan titled “Climate Resilient Burlington” (CRB) that will be used by the municipality to adapt to the changing climate and minimize the severity of resulting impacts. The goal of the CRB is to create a community wide plan, informed by both internal and external stakeholders, that addresses the risks and identifies opportunities to Burlington’s built, natural, social, and economic systems associated with warmer, wetter, and wilder weather. Implementing the plan will focus efforts from reactive to more proactive measures. 

To date, Associated Engineering has:

• Identified most significant past or current climate hazards faced by Burlington (probability and consequence)
• Reviewed and confirmed climate impact statements ensuring all relevant sectors, assets, or services expected to be most impacted are considered
• Engaged staff and community stakeholders by hosting and facilitating workshops to help define vulnerabilities and risks for city operations and the community. 

The City of Burlington, with support from Associated Engineering, is hosting a virtual launch of the CRB project this Wednesday, October 27th. The free event is open to the public and will provide a high-level introduction of the project and feature keynote speaker David Phillips, Senior Climatologist at Environment and Climate Change Canada. In “Weather and Climate: It’s Not What Our Grandparents Knew”, David will highlight what’s happening to our weather, what we should be worried about, and what we can do to make a difference and be better prepared.

For more information and to register, please visit here.

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