mmmm COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANS NUNAVUT Beate Bowron & Gary Davidson

CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PLANNERS (CIP) WHAT IS CIP?  A not-for-profit organization of professional planners in Canada  7,000 members in 7 Affiliates  All types of planners:  environmental  transportation  social  economic development  community  government, NGO and private sector

COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANS CONTEXT  CIP working with Government of Nunavut (GN) since 2006  CIP/NRCan/GN cooperation  Nunavut Climate Change Partnership 2009 – 2011 (INAC funded)  Six pilot community adaptation plans completed  Chapter in new Iqaluit Community Land Use Plan  Draft Nunavut Adaptation Planning Toolkit

COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANS PHASE 1  Clyde River  Hall Beach Clyde RiverHall Beach

COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANS PHASE 2 Arviat Cambridge Bay Iqaluit Kugluktuk Whale Cove

COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANS APPROACH  Learning from Phase 1 (limited resources)  Community-based planning  Cooperation among planners and scientists  The three pillars of knowledge  Planning teams free to develop their own detailed approaches  Working in translation

COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANS CHOOSING THE PLANNING TEAMS  Two volunteer professional planners per team  Experience  Complementary technical and facilitation skills  Gender balance  High degree of interest among CIP members  Planners from across Canada

COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANS CHOOSING THE COMMUNITIES  Phase 1:  Hall Beach and Clyde River volunteered  No formal agreement  Phase 2:  Regional balance  Various community sizes  Initial contact by Climate Change Coordinator  Letter of agreement with selected communities

COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANS WORKING WITH THE SCIENTISTS  Background information  The challenge of coordinating field work  Community “walkabouts”  Review of “science” portion of draft plans

COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANS PREPARING THE ADAPTATION PLANS Lessons for Phase 2:  5 visits to communities  Involving GN planners and local staff  Integrating planning and science work as much as possible  Planning team briefing session including scientists and GN officials

COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANS PREPARING THE ADAPTATION PLANS  Visit 1  Orientation  Stakeholder identification  Contact with hamlet  Work plans  Visit 2  “Walkabouts” with scientists  Talk to community groups  Involve Elders  Visit school/youth groups  Contact with hamlet

COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANS PREPARING THE ADAPTATION PLANS  Visit 3  Community- wide events to raise awareness of climate change issues and begin discussing possible actions (community meetings; community feast; art contest; Elders’ story-telling)  Community workshops to set priorities for action  Contact with hamlet

COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANS PREPARING THE ADAPTATION PLANS  Visit 4  Draft plan presentation and feedback: stakeholders; community meetings; workshop; radio phone-in show  Contact with hamlet  Visit 5  Final revised plan and presentation to community, including Hamlet Council

COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANS WHAT IS A CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLAN?  Integration of scientific/Elder/community knowledge  Lists climate change impacts (thawing permafrost; sea level rise; changing ice conditions; new species; changing vegetation)  Determines level of risks to community  Identifies actions that need to be taken (What can we do; What should others do? Who should take the lead?)  Sets priorities for actions  Feeds into other Nunavut strategies like community land use plans, emergency management plans, infrastructure plans, capital budgets

COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANS CONCLUSIONS  CIP teams completed 7 community climate change adaptation planning processes  Resulting plans and posters reflect different approaches  Valuable as base for Nunavut Climate Change Adaptation Planning Toolkit  Once Toolkit has been finalized, GN planners and others will be able to take climate change adaptation planning to Nunavut’s remaining communities

COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANS CONCLUSIONS  All community climate change adaptation plans and posters are available at:

COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANS CIP is a proud partner in Atuliqtuq: Action & Adaptation The Nunavut Climate Change Partnership THANK YOU!