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Siila (Sheila) Watt-Cloutier named PICS Indigenous Climate Fellow

Inuit climate leader, PICS will work together to increase Indigenous leadership in climate change research, education, and policy

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Deepen your understanding of climate change... and what you can do about it

Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions launches free Climate Insights Course for professionals.

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Video: Siila Watt-Cloutier: Indigenous wisdom as climate medicine

PICS’ inaugural Indigenous Climate Fellow on Indigenous leadership for climate solutions.

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Additional funding for successful applicants to NRCan wildland fire program

Is your team applying to the NRCan Build and Mobilize Foundational Wildland Fire Knowledge Program? You could secure a portion of your required match funding from PICS.

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Learn about justice, equity, decolonizing practices, and intersectionality

PICS is proud to support this FREE primer on Justice, Equity, Decolonizing Practices, and Intersectionality offered by SFU Continuing Studies.

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PICS presents Jonathan Foley on The Drawdown Roadmap

The global community, from governments to organizations to businesses, has declared commitments to combating climate change and creating climate solutions. But how to get there?

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Better management of risk in a riskier world

B.C. awards PICS $495,000 to improve tools communities use to assess climate risk.

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Earthquake risk minimal when storing carbon under the deep ocean, study finds

Advanced computer modelling by the Solid Carbon team shows injecting CO2 under the Cascadia Basin has less than one per cent chance of causing fault slip.

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B.C. climate solutions research gets $900K lift from PICS

Five research teams receive $180,000 each from the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions’ Opportunity Project Program.

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Backgrounder: PICS Opportunity Projects Program funded projects

Research teams from UVic, UBC and UNBC receive $180,000 each from PICS’ Opportunity Project Program.

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Image 1, left: The Living with Water team at the Coastal Zone Canada conference. Image 2, right: Tira Okamoto and Vanessa Lueck. Image 3: Shaieree Cottar
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Living with Water dives into the Coastal Zone Canada 2023 Conference

Researchers bring their PICS coastal adaptation project to national coastal management conference.

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PICS presents Myles Allen: The physicist behind Net Zero

Dr. Myles Allen joined PICS May 29 to present on Geological Net Zero: How we will stop fossil fuels from causing global warming.

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