Wednesday, August 4, 2021, 1:00 - 2:30 PM (PDT)
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BCAFN is pleased to invite First Nations in BC to our next webinar Finding and Using Climate Data for Climate Action, a part of our 2021 Climate Action Webinar series. This webinar session will present available portals, platforms and tools that First Nations communities can utilize to access climate data and information to support their climate response.
Climate change is a persistent and urgent matter. Since the start of this summer, BC has been experiencing unprecedented and extreme heat waves that have contributed to a high number of wildfires and flooding events across the province. Adequate access to reliable past and future climate data and information plays a key role for First Nations to understand and become more resilient to climate impacts.
Speakers from the Climate Atlas of Canada, the Canadian Centre for Climate Services, and from a Kanaka Bar Indian Band will present different climate data sources, portals and networks, showing participants how to navigate through them and providing examples of how climate data can be used to inform climate action, particularly in assessing climate risk, vulnerability and impacts.
This webinar will be followed in the Fall by training sessions for interested participants on the use of both the platforms ClimateData.ca and Climate Atlas of Canada. Further information will be provided at the webinar.