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Climate Training
Madison, WI
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Climate change happens on a global scale but it’s the home owners, small and medium-sized businesspersons, farmers, ranchers, foresters and community leaders who will face the challenge of coping with that change in tangible ways. So how can they recognize the local impacts of the global changes and respond pragmatically?
In 2006, attendees at the MSWG annual workshop in Utah heard from the University of Washington’s Climate Impacts Group. It returns by popular demand, bringing its message and practical advice to the Upper Midwest for the first time!
The Climate Impacts Group has been in the national forefront with its work in identifying how the Pacific Northwest’s natural resources, economies and communities will be affected by climate change, by looking at changes in temperature, water, land use, municipal services, energy use, building and facility management and outdoor activity, for example. The Climate Impacts Group is also recognized for pioneering efforts to identify regional adaptive strategies to manage risks. Its work is called climate science in the public interest and its practical advice is applicable far beyond the Pacific Northwest.
Cara Scholke
Director of Convention Services
Greater Madison Convention & Visitors Bureau
615 East Washington Avenue
Madison, WI 53703
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Phone: 604-441-3957
Phone: 800-373-6376 x 3957
Fax: 608-258-4950
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This training session demonstrates how average people can take steps to cope with climate change. There are take-home materials.
The Climate Change Workshop on Tuesday, June 19 provides advice and take-home materials on how to identify climate change’s impact and the options you have to cope with that change. Examples will be shared from work in King County, Washington (Seattle), developed with ICLEI- Local Governments for Sustainability. King County is recognized world-wide for its forward-thinking approach to coping with climate change.
There will be hands-on breakout groups to allow for a focused look at lessons learned and steps to take. This workshop is designed to help businesses, property owners, municipalities and other how to protect and reduce the risk for their, neighborhoods and communities.
This Climate Change Workshop is open to all attendees of the MSWG workshop without extra charge. A one-day admission to the Climate Change Workshop alone is available. Discounts exist for all who register before the event begins.
Presenters include Laura Whitley Binder, outreach specialist, Climate Impacts Group, the University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Amy Snover, professor and principal research scientist and assistant director for the Center for Science in the Earth System, both of whom are at the University of Washington, Seattle staff persons from King County, Washington and representatives and leaders from ICLEI, Local Governments for Sustainability, a co-sponsor of this training session.
Multi State Working Group
International Dialogue on Ecological Policy