• What is the Centre for Resilience and Continuity Management (CRCM)
• CRCM context and mandate
• The challenge of climate change
• Building resilience in a climate change environment
• Planning for what you don’t know

• 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

Climate change will continue to increase the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, straining emergency management capacities and budgets across Canada.  This session will cover the ways in which climate change fits into Canada’s Emergency Management Strategy Framework.

• The linkages between climate change and emergency management, and the need for all areas of society to work together to enhance resilience 
• Understand the shift in focus toward proactive prevention/mitigation efforts and forward-looking recovery measures
• Strengthening the resilience of Canadian society by 2030
• Roles and responsibilities of FPT governments and partners
• What do resilient communities look like?
• Priority areas of activity:
  • Enhance whole-of-society collaboration and governance to strengthen resilience
  • Improve understanding of disaster risks in all sectors of society
  • Increase focus on whole-of-society disaster prevention and mitigation activities
  • Strengthen recovery efforts by building back better to minimize the impacts of future disasters

• 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