Ä¢¹½´«Ã½

This course provides an overview of the knowledge, tools and resources needed to become more effective leaders and managers in adapting to climate change. During the four-day intensive session, participants will develop practical skills through lectures, step-by-step approaches, case studies and hands-on activities. As part of the course, each participant will complete, and carry away, a climate change impacts and adaptation study for their own region of geographic interest that will include: how the climate has changed in the past; how the climate is projected to change in the future; how these changes have/will impact the region; and how best to adapt to these anticipated impacts.

The course consists of two main outcomes:

1. climate change basics including climate science and modelling, climate impact assessment, and climate adaptation strategies;
2. climate change tools including climate data analysis, and scenarios of future climate change.

By the end of the course, students will take home practical skills in:

• following the steps assigned by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for conducting a climate change impact assessment;
• accessing, quality controlling, and statistically analyzing climate observations for your region of geographic interest;
• preparing scenarios of future climate change for your region of geographic interest through model ensemble and validation techniques; and developing climate change adaptation options.

The course will be taught by three world-renowned teachers including Nobel Peace Prize winners, IPCC Coordinating Lead Authors, university professors and leading climate change researchers – Dr. Adam Fenech, University of Prince Edward Island; Dr. Bill Gough, University of Toronto; and Dr. Monirul Mirza, University of Toronto Scarborough.