Glenn will speak about the increasing challenges faced by various stakeholders – most particularly property owners, businesses, governments and insurers – in managing risks associated with severe weather and seismic events. Topics will include:

• How severe weather losses are rising across Canada
• What can be expected through the next decade in terms of disaster loss claims and prevention.
• ICLR’s work and its efforts to help insurers and others mitigate the impact of severe weather and earthquake events

• Government of Adaptation Action Plan and Strategy
• Reactive and anticipatory adaptation
• Using science to take action before the worst impacts of change are incurred
• Need for: Resilient infrastructure, healthier communities, enhanced biodiversity and nature conservation, a more resilient economy and workers
• Need to move from static framing of climate risks to a more dynamic framing that considers cascading interactions, feedbacks and side-effects
• Including extreme events and ‘unknown unknowns’ as part of effective infrastructure design and management, organizational resilience and continuity systems and processes
• Examples of communities and sectors adapting to a changing climate across Canada
• Steps Canadians are taking to understand how climate change affects them and the solutions they find to adapt and increase their resilience.
• Assessing the costs and benefits of climate change adaptation

• Fostering awareness of Indigenous Science
• Understanding Indigenous Science as a distinct, time-tested and methodological knowledge system that will enhance and complement Western science
• Bridging bringing Indigenous Science awareness to the Western science inside the department.
• Braiding people on the land will be first to identify a change in how the water or wildlife look.
• Weaving Using Indigenous Science as a tool in the department’s approach to environmental issues and species management

Business Continuity Management integrates the disciplines of Emergency Response, Crisis Management, Information Technology Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity (organizational/operational relocation). Risks, the impacts of business interruption and their frequency have changed dramatically as a result of climate change but many organizations have not been quick to update their plans accordingly, lulled into a sense of complacency after the pandemic forced hybrid work environment. Is your BCM programme upgraded and fine-tuned to deal with Climate Change and surprising outcomes? Topics covered will include:.

• Risk assessments that should be on your radar screen
• Impacts to your Business Impact Analysis and prioritization
• Real life case studies and lessons learned
• Impacts to existing continuity strategies and the need for elasticity
• Ideas for viable exercises and tests to ensure plan sustainability

Present view of climate change impact on supply chains

• How it has exposed the fragility with the global movement of goods
• Handling a complex supply chain with rudimentary tools

Future view: expected climate change impact; roadblocks & how to manage them

• Increase severe weather events and managing supply route disruptions
• Population migration on supply workforce & customers
• Animal/insect migration and impact on natural harvest supplies (evasive species)
• Permafrost deterioration and arable (farmable) land for product supplies
• Infrastructure changes needed to support changing landscape
• Changing supply routes & their impact on the movement of goods (Arctic)

Planning to secure your supply chain for the future

• On-shore vs. Near-Shore vs. Off-Shore suppliers
• Developing the best risk management team and end-to-end understanding of your supply/value chain through digital mapping
• Managing the balance in your supply chain between risk and cost