2024 Winter Update

Partnering with Hinton – from Risk to Resilience

For over two years, we have been partnering with the Town of Hinton to address the pressing climate risks facing the community. Positioned between Jasper and Edson, two communities that have experienced significant environmental disasters in the past two years, Hinton is no stranger to the challenges of living in a landscape prone to climate-induced […]
Advancing the Global Goal on Adaptation

Summary by Laura S. Lynes COP29 –The 29th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Conventions on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was held from November 11-22, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. A relevant outcome to our work at The Resilience Institute was that Parties (countries) welcomed the work by the UNFCCC […]
Exciting Announcement from Minister Wilkinson on our Adaptation Initiative

Recently, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources announced our initiative, Expanding Understanding of Community-Relevant Climate Adaptation in Small, Rural and Indigenous Communities across Canada, as part of over $2.6 million in funding for the Canadian Prairies under the Natural Resources Canada’s Climate Change Adaptation Program (CCAP). Read the announcement from Natural […]
2024 Fall Update

2023 Winter Update

Special Release: Fire and Ice Podcast

Stories of Resilience Podcast · Episode 1: Fire And Ice
Building Climate change resilience through knowledge co-creation between Indigenous and scientific knowledge holders.
Collaborative Sessions at the 2018 IPPC Cities Conference, Edmonton, Alberta. Contacts: Laura Lynes, President of the Board The Resilience Institute Email: laura@rockiesinstitute.ca Gleb Raygorodetsky, Executive Director Environmental Monitoring and Science Division, Alberta Environment and Parks Email: Gleb.Raygorodetsky@gov.ab.ca The impacts of climate change pose a significant challenge to Indigenous peoples all over the world because […]