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Building Climate Resilience Conference Nov 2019

From November 18th to 20th, a three-day conference is taking place at Signal Hill Memorial Campus and Johnson Geo Centre in St. John’s entitled Building Climate Resilience: Infrastructure Design and Planning with Uncertainty. To find out more about the workshop and register please email main@pegnl.ca or call 709-753-7714, ext. 0.

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Canada-wide Zero-Emission Vehicle Strategy

Council of Ministers Responsible for Transportation and Highway Safety (COMT) endorsed a Canada-wide Strategy on Zero-Emission Vehicles (ZEVs) at their meeting on January 21, 2019 in Montreal, delivering on a commitment in the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change. Newfoundland and Labrador was represented at the meeting by the Honourable Steven Crocker, Minister of Transportation and Works, and Minister Gambin-Walsh, Minister of Service NL.

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The Global Commission on Adaptation Underway

The Global Commission on Adaptation (GCA) is an international collaboration of nations and adaptation experts led by Bill Gates (Co-Founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), Kristalina Georgieva (CEO of the World Bank) and Ban Ki-moon (8th Secretary General of the United Nations). Its objective is to raise the political profile of climate change adaptation and bringing scale and speed to adaptation solutions. With 19 convening nations, Canada is one of the five countries who will be financially contributing to the GCA, providing $7.5 million dollars over the course of two years.

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What is climate change?

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Follow the link below to find out more about what it is and what's causing it.

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Impacts of climate change

Climate change is affecting Newfoundland and Labrador. Follow the links below to learn more about how it's affecting us and our province.

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