Video of a hands-on workshop hosted by GDDPC and several partners in August 2021. This two-day workshop applied the Living Shorelines method to a section of a waterfront land at the Cocagne Community Park.
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Canadian communities and infrastructure are vulnerable to coastal and riverine flood hazards. The risks associated with coastal and river flooding are escalating as a result of development in river floodplains and coastal zones, and the effects of climate change on flood and erosion hazards. There is growing interest in the potential for Nature-based Solutions (NbS) to play a role in managing these risks, owing in part to Canada’s co-leadership of the Nature-based Solutions Action Track of the Global Commission on Adaptation. Despite this increasing interest in NbS for coastal and riverine flood and erosion risk management, they remain relatively underutilized in Canada. Standards and guidelines can contribute to mainstreaming NbS by clarifying the underlying concepts and principles, raising awareness, and educating practitioners, potential project proponents, and the public.
By UNIDO, October 25, 2021
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Governments and investors could save US$248bn a year, protect the environment and benefit local communities by replacing or complementing newly built infrastructure with plants, trees and other natural alternatives, according to a first-of-its-kind study from the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).
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Over the past year, the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices has been modeling what climate change could mean for Canada. We have looked specifically at climate change impacts on health – including impacts from heat, ground-level ozone, and Lyme disease – and infrastructure system impacts.
By phys.org, October 21, 2021
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In cities growing in both size and thirst across the globe, sustainability is constrained by the gray of dams and water treatment facilities. In this week’s Nature Sustainability, research by Michigan State University scientists advocate going green to ensure water supplies.
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We are happy to announce an exciting support opportunity for anyone interested in learning about natural asset management. The Royal Roads University is offering a course on natural asset management taught by Roy Brooke, Executive Director of the Municipal Natural Asset Initiative (MNAI). The course starts on November 15 and ends on December 12th 2021. It is aimed at anyone working for local governments and with them such as engineers, planners and NGO staff.
The NBEN’s BRACE project will support individuals who work in New Brunswick and are interested in taking this course . We can support a limited number of people and will operate on a first come first serve basis, so act fast!
To be considered, please send me a message at vincent.lambert.song@nben.ca and include a short description of your work and why you are interested in the course. Feel free to mention this opportunity to colleagues and partners.
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By David Suzuki Foundation, September 16, 2021
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Since 2018, we have worked together with the Municipal Natural Assets Initiative to quantify the services natural assets offer, particularly those that provide flood and erosion protection from coastal storms. We also saw a need to develop and pilot a modelling tool that coastal communities could use to understand and compare alternative natural asset management solutions to rising storm surges and coastal erosion.
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By MNAI, September 9, 2021
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Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia published its Professional Practice Guidelines – Local Government Asset Management to describe expectations and obligations of professional engineers and geoscientists as they practice in the field of local government asset management. Now, the regulator partnered with the Municipal Natural Assets Initiative (MNAI) to produce a companion Natural Assets Management Considerations document that offers detailed guidance on how to integrate natural assets effectively into local governments’ asset management.
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By ABC News, August 23, 2021
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Two identical office buildings side by side in Sydney’s Barangaroo provided a perfect opportunity for solar energy researchers to test a long-held hunch. Would surrounding rooftop solar panels with green plants make them more efficient? The answer, as it turned out, was yes.
Over eight months the green roof generated an additional 9.5 MWh or $2,595 worth of renewable energy.
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Ursula Malone, ABC News
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