David Lapp

By Jacqueline Richard | October 4, 2022 |

David Lapp FCAE FEC P.Eng is an Ontario-registered professional engineer with over 40 years of professional practice – first in consulting engineering, scientific investigation and management consulting supporting marine navigation in Canadian and international ice-covered waters, followed by a career in a variety of roles with Engineers Canada for 23 years until his retirement in…

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Climate Smart Policy and Procurement

By Jacqueline Richard | September 27, 2022 |

An Infrastructure Resilience Professional (IRP) Online Course This course equips engineers and other infrastructure professionals with foundational awareness of procurement processes, as well as knowledge of critical climate policies and their implications for procurement. The course provides insight into how climate policies and resilience can be reflected in procurement processes, contributing to greater infrastructure resilience…

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New Story Maps featuring key climate trends, impacts and opportunities

By Jacqueline Richard | September 22, 2022 |

September 2022 Over the course of the past two years, the Council of the Great Lakes Region, with funding from Bruce Power and technical expertise and modelling from the Climate Risk Institute, has engaged agricultural, municipal, and Indigenous communities in Grey, Bruce, and Huron counties to produce knowledge and information products that address opportunities and risks related to…

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Webinar: Ontario Chapter of Canada in a Changing Climate: Regional Perspectives Report

By Jacqueline Richard | August 2, 2022 |

Wednesday, August 17, 2022 12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT This webinar will follow the official release of the Ontario Chapter of the Regional Perspectives Report. Hear directly from the authors about how climate change is affecting Ontario, and how communities and sectors are increasingly taking action to adapt. The Regional Perspectives Report, led by Natural Resources Canada, provides an overview…

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PIEVC Webinar Series: Climate Change Vulnerability and Risk Assessments for Infrastructure

By Jacqueline Richard | July 26, 2022 |

The PIEVC Program Alliance is pleased to announce the launch of the PIEVC Practitioner’s Network through the upcoming Climate Change Vulnerability and Risk Assessment Infrastructure Webinar Series and Global Forum. The Public Infrastructure Engineering Vulnerability Committee (PIEVC) Protocol was developed to assist engineers in factoring climate change impacts into plans for design, operation, and maintenance…

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Doreen Wong

By Jacqueline Richard | July 18, 2022 |

Doreen Wong, B.A., B.COMM., LL.B., CRIO, PMP, SCMP (Candidate) is the Vice President and a Principal Consultant of Robinson Global Management Inc. (RGM), a boutique multidisciplinary consulting firm. RGM, a proud Certified Women Business Enterprise (WBE), was the recipient of WBE’s 2021 Supplier of the Year for demonstrated excellence in business growth, impact on the…

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Building Adaptation Skills for a Changing Climate Webinar Series!

By Jacqueline Richard | June 20, 2022 |

In 2022/23 the Building Regional Adaptation Capacity and Expertise (BRACE) Program led by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), hosted a webinar series focused on sharing experiences on how to build climate change adaptation skills. The webinars series featured the results of over 20 co-funded projects. The key objectives of the webinar series was to:  1) present…

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Jazmin Vargas Najera, BSc, MCC

By Jacqueline Richard | May 9, 2022 |

Jazmin is a Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Analyst at the Climate Risk Institute. She holds a masters degree in Climate Change from the University of Waterloo and a Bachelor’s degree in Community and Environmental Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her educational background and immigrant journey from Mexico to the U.S and now Canada have…

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