Team

The Climate Change Adaptation Project is being:

Led by Dr. Blair Feltmate, Director of Sustainability Practice and Associate Professor
School of Environment, Enterprise and Development.

Managed by Dr. Jason Thistlethwaite, a lecturer at the University of Waterloo affiliated with the Faculty of Environment , and a Research Coordinator for the Institute of Catastrophic Loss Reduction. He recently completed his PhD on the link between climate change and financial markets in August 2011.

Funded and promoted by Intact Financial Corporation, a provider of home, auto and business insurance. A key social responsibility focus for Intact is to help communities prepare for long-lasting changes in weather patterns.

Governed by The University of Waterloo, a national leader in environmental research and teaching. The University of Waterloo was the first faculty in Canada (est. in 1969) dedicated to the environment and environmental studies and remains one of only a handful in the world.

Did you know?

Canada's emissions of greenhouse gases, major contributors to climate change, rose 25% between 1990 and 2005.*

Driving a mid-size car about 5,000 kilometres results in about one tonne of emissions.*

In 2005, human activities released the equivalent of 747 megatonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in Canada. 1 megatonne = 1 million tonnes.*

In 2005, energy production and consumption accounted for more than 80% of greenhouse gas emissions in Canada.*

Fossil fuels are burned to move people and goods. In 2005, transportation activities accounted for 27% of all greenhouse gas emissions in Canada.*

Energy makes up one-fifth of Canada's merchandise exports.*

As worldwide demand for energy has surged since 1990, GHG emissions from the production of exported energy have jumped 146%.*

Canada has about 0.5% of the world's population, but contributes about 2% of the total global GHG emissions.*

Canada has warmed in recent decades. The trend between 1948 and 2007 shows a 1.4 °C increase in annual temperatures in Canada.*

Temperature increases between 1948 and 2007 have been greatest in the Yukon, Northwest Territories and northern British Columbia.*

Glaciers in the Rocky Mountains are receding and thinning, resulting indecreases in flow during the critical driest months of the year in some rivers.*

Of the 853 glaciers inventoried in 1975 in the North and South Saskatchewan River basins, 328 have disappeared completely.*

The spread of the mountain pine beetle in the central interior of British Columbia has coincided with warmer winter extremes.*

By 2007, 13 million hectares of British Columbia was infested by the mountain pine beetle.*

Canada has experienced heavier precipitation, intense wind storms and less predictable weather patterns over the past five years.*

The winter of 2009 was ranked in the top 10 "wettest winters" between 1948 and 2009.*

As of July 1, 2009, the median age of Canada's population was 39.5 years, up 0.2 years from the same date last year and up 3.1 years from 1999.*

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