CLIMAtlantic helps communities become more resilient in the face of climate risks
Coastal storms, flooding, wildfires, and other climate hazards are affecting the health, safety, and well-being of our communities.
We provide education and training tailored to your region and conditions. We connect individuals, communities, and governments with the right experts and information, so you can make informed decisions about how to prepare for these risks and build a more resilient future.
A brief history of CLIMAtlantic
CLIMAtlantic was created to help people understand how climate change will affect their communities, and what they can do about it.
CLIMAtlantic provides effective, evidence-based approaches and easy to understand climate change information.
CLIMAtlantic is a charitable non-profit. Read more about our charitable status here.
CLIMAtlantic was created in 2021 through a Memorandum of Understanding among the 4 Atlantic Provinces and the federal government with the support of the Ecology Action Centre, New Brunswick Environmental Network (NBEN), and Aster Group Environmental Services Co-op.
All of CLIMAtlantic resources and services are FREE.
Making Atlantic Canada stronger, together
We cannot do this work alone. While leading the way is sometimes necessary, it’s just as important to identify champions, share information, and create opportunities for people to connect and build relationships. We use evidence- and place-based knowledge and work with a large network of partners. Our multi- disciplinary, science-based approach helps people learn how to adapt and thrive in a changing climate.
Guiding Principles
Advance regional efforts on climate resilience by raising awareness, sharing knowledge, implementing best
practices, and supporting innovation
Use and co-develop robust, place-and knowledge-based, and evidence-based approaches in the design, delivery and continuous improvement of our programs and services.
Be responsive to the needs of partners, collaborators, and users by considering operational realities and addressing multi-faceted environmental, social, and economic challenges through adaptation efforts
Collaborate and partner with a full range of rightsholders, stakeholders, communities, organizations, individuals, and other regional climate service organizations to deliver programs and services that respect nature, amplify different knowledges and ways of knowing, and expand the scope of conventional adaptation to enhance relevance and impact
Values
Humility
While we are knowledge holders and guides, we are also learners and followers. We support others in adaptation problem-solving, but recognize that not every issue is ours to solve. We also respect the range of multi-faceted needs of partners, collaborators, and users beyond adaptation and will work with those realities.
Ethical relationships
We prioritize trust, honesty, and care in our relationships and will not sacrifice them to secure funding or complete deliverables.
Reciprocity
We recognize the many ways nature supports adaptation and strive to support it in our work. We also create opportunities for knowledge exchange and collective growth with one another.
Honesty
We are truthful about the opportunities, challenges, capabilities, and limitations of adaptation and we create a time and forum for difficult conversations,Body
Collaboration
We choose partnership over competition, prioritizing the region’s capacity and success over our own. We will collaborate and partner with a full range of rightsholders, stakeholders, communities, organizations, individuals, and other regional climate service organizations.
Meet the CLIMAtlantic Team
Whether you need help finding partners for a funding application, are interested in training, or need assistance accessing, understanding and applying climate data to your needs, our team can help.
Board of Directors
Our Board of Directors brings together experienced leaders who guide CLIMAtlantic’s strategic direction and long-term goals. The Board includes one member from each Atlantic province, a representative from Environment and Climate Change Canada, and additional members who reflect key sectors, rights-holders, and stakeholders from across the region and beyond.
The CLIMAtlantic Advisory Committee
CLIMAtlantic bases its programs and services on trusted, evidence-based information. Our independent Advisory Committee helps ensure we have the latest facts surrounding the needs, trends, and emerging climate issues affecting the region, so we can better support decision-makers in communities, organizations and government agencies across the region.
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Land Acknowledgement
CLIMAtlantic works in Atlantic Canada, which is situated on the unceded and unsurrendered homelands of many Indigenous Peoples, including the Mi’kmaq, Wolastoqiyik, and Peskotomuhkatiyik who are all members of the Wabanaki Confederacy (which also includes Panawahpskewi and Abenaki), as well as the Beothuk, Innu, and Inuit.
We recognize that colonization continues to shape social, environmental, and climate realities, and we are committed to learning how these impacts intersect with our work. CLIMAtlantic is committed to working in respectful partnership with Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities, organizations, and governments, while supporting and amplifying Indigenous leadership, knowledge systems, and lived experience.
This commitment is reflected in our actions, including supporting adaptation and resilience training led by Indigenous peoples for Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities; building staff capacity through ongoing learning on Indigenous sovereignty, anti-racism, and ethical partnerships; re-imagining adaptation through multiple worldviews; and listening to Indigenous partners and involving them early and meaningfully in the design and delivery of our programs and services.
We open ourselves to acknowledging where we have fallen short, and welcome opportunities to learn more and do better. In our commitment to ongoing collaboration, growth, and action, we will update this page with our progress. If any information on this page or website is inaccurate or misrepresentative, please contact us at info@climatlantic.ca
Below are learning resources about the ongoing impacts of colonization, Indigenous worldviews and knowledge systems, and Indigenous sovereignty.