2010 CIP Conference
Conference presentations are currently being added to our website as they are made available.
- Draft Declaration Climate Change + Communities: A Call to Action
- Plenary Breakfast - Fatimata Dia Touré - Synthèse Présentation
- Keynote Address - Jan Gehl PEOPLE CITIES = SUSTAINABLE CITIES
- Closing Address - Larry Bealsey - Putting Words into Action: Setting an Agenda for Planners + Climate Change
- Lessons learned from Canadian municipal climate change adaptation initiatives- Gregory Richardson Natural Resources Canada
- BE03 - Using Modelling to Study Climate: Models, Projections and Scenarios
- BE04 - Mettre la ville sous tension La nouvelle mobilité électrique et le développement urbain
- BE05 - Toronto Climate Change Initiatives
- BE06 - Getting to minus 80: Achieving Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets Through Land Use and Transportation Planning
- BE07 - Climate change & the built environment: A European Union perspective
- BE09 - City of North Vancouver Climate Action: 10 Years in Review, 100 Years into the Future
- EE01 - Managing Risks in a Changing Climate: Perspectives from the Built Infrastructure Codes and Standards Community
- EE06 - City Of Surrey: The Future Lives Here
- EE06 - Climate change on the ground: The economic tools
- EE07 - Shifting Gears: How to Manage Cities in the Energy Climate Era
- EE08 - Moving from the Theoretical to the Practical
- ITW1 - Module de deux jours – Atelier sur les changements climatiques (French)
- NE02 - Food Security and Agriculture in a Changing Climate: An Oxymoron?
- NE05 - Bridging the Gap between Research and Adaptation to Climate Change: Case Studies from Québec
- NE06 - Report Card on Climate Change Integration for Planners Capturing Climate Change Impacts in Today’s Planning Effort’s
- NE07 - Gestion des risques de sinistre et aménagement du territoire : enjeux et perspectives dans le contexte des changements climatiques
- NE08 - Local Government Responses to Climate Change: British Columbia
- SE02 - Guarding Our Health: Planning for the Health Impacts of Climate Change
- SE03 - The Use of Scenario Planning to Account for Climate Change Variability and Uncertainty in Community Adaptation Planning
- SE04 - Northern British Columbia 2060 – Climate Change Scenario Planning and Opportunity Discovery
- SE06 - Model Standard Of Practice For Climate Change Planning
- SE07 - Markham Green Print: A Community Sustainability Plan
- SE08 - Climate Change Adaptation on the Ground: Case studies for Tuktoyaktuk and Shanghai
- SE09 - Heat + Health + Planning
- SE09 - Climate Change Adaptation: Planning for Heat's Impact on Health
- W7 - Sustainable Neighbourhood Retrofit Action Plan (SNAP) County Court Community by Karen Nasmith
- W7 - Sustainable Neighbourhood Retrofit Action Plan (SNAP) County Court Community by Michael Hoy
- W7 - Sustainable Neighbourhood Retrofit Action Plan (SNAP) County Court Community by Shannon Logan
"As the earth's average temperature has risen, the change has begun to play havoc with the climate, and because CO2 stays in the atmosphere for several thousand years, the effects will only build as more CO2 gets poured into Mother Nature's operating system. So as we enter the Energy-Climate Era, we are leaving an era in which whatever effects we were having on the climate and environment were perceived to be manageable and reversible - acid rain, ozone depletion, conventional pollution, for instance - and entering an era in which our effects on the climate and earth's natural systems are becoming potentially unmanageable and irreversible" Thomas L. Friedman's book Hot, Flat and Crowded, 2008.
The CIP Climate Change + Communities Conference will bring together planning professionals from Canada and other countries to address the transnational planning issues of climate change. There will be a series of keynote presentations throughout the conference as well as dozens of concurrent sessions. The aim is to create a forum for detailed discussion, case studies and information that will build on an overall conference content so that attendees are able to take away solid, useful and applicable information to address the effects of climate change on communities and community planning. Conference presentations will be organized around four streams:
- Climate Change and the Natural Environment
- Climate Change and the Built Environment
- Climate Change and the Social Environment
- Climate Change and the Economy
Climate change is happening now and will influence planning for the foreseeable future. What is the latest science telling us? What strategies are available to adapt to changing conditions? This conference teams the Canadian Institute of Planners, the Global Planners Network, the Commonwealth Association of Planners and others from across the Canada, the United States and the developing world to explore ideas, experiences and solutions. Through presentations and workshops, participants will share their experiences in working in climate change adaptation programs, develop creative strategies, acquire the tools for action, and learn how to measure success.This multi-disciplinary, international conference will provide essential information on the science and theory of climate change as it relates to planning practice.