The CCCCA is delighted to partner with Island Innovation for the Global Sustainable Islands Summit 2025, co-hosted with the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis. The summit will address pressing challenges confronting island communities, focusing on Water Sustainability & Energy Nexus, Agricultural Resilience & Climate Adaptation, Climate-Health Interactions and Geothermal Energy.”
You are invited to the School of Climate Change and Adaptation’s Climate Career Day, an opportunity for students and climate sector organizations to meet face-to-face to learn about climate adaptation projects and potential summer jobs or full-time opportunities on PEI. Wednesday, March 12th 10am-12pmFaculty Lounge, first floor Main Building, Charlottetown Read more…
UPEI’s Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation (CCCCA) in St. Peter’s Bay will host a public Open House on September 13, from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. Members of the public are invited to tour the 45,000-square-foot facility, which houses the UPEI School of Climate Change and Adaptation, the Read more…
UPEI climate lab gets funding boost for sustainable agriculture research project The federal government has provided a financial assist to the tune of $6 million for research at UPEI’s Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation to find ways to make farming more sustainable. CBC’s Connor Lamont spoke with the Read more…
The following news release was issued on August 29, 2024, by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada following an announcement at UPEI’s Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation. Building research partnerships among Canadian post-secondary researchers and farmers, producers, and private, public and not-for-profit organizations is key to Read more…
Climate Forum 2024 Canadian Centre for Climate Change and AdaptationUniversity of Prince Edward Island August 12-16, 2024St. Peter’s Bay, Prince Edward Island, Canada For more information, please visit: https://sigma.academy/climate2024 Recent Climate Forum 2023
A Mi’kmaw elder weaving handmade baskets is the latest climate artist-in-residence at the Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation in St. Peter’s Bay, P.E.I. Francis Jadis has been making baskets since his childhood on Lennox Island. Now his baskets — made of wisqoq, or black ash — are the focus of an exhibit called Read more…
Lisa Theriault incorporates objects into her works that provide a concrete illustration of the effects of climate change. Visual artist Lisa Theriault PHOTO: RADIO-CANADA / GABRIELLE DRUMOND An exhibition by a French-speaking artist from Prince Edward Island is trying to raise awareness of the challenges of climate change through art. Read more…
The numbers are in for 2022, and Prince Edward Island lost a record amount of shoreline, according to researchers at UPEI’s School of Climate Change and Adaptation. The loss in some places was so extreme that the measuring pegs a coastal monitoring research project had been using for seven years were clawed Read more…
With the belief that art has a critical role to play in climate change adaptation awareness and well-being, Creative PEI in partnership with the Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation is proud to launch the Climate Artist-in-Residence Program (CAIR). This iteration of CAIR consists of four Artists-in-Residence, Lisa Theriault, Read more…
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