FORECAST NL

Take a minute to introduce yourself. What brings you to the FORECAST NL forum?

What do you see on the horizon for our province? good and bad. What keeps you up at night, or makes you worry or wonder about the future - 10, 20, 50 years down the road? What are the things that give you hope? What are the bright spots that you can see that, with a little focus and planning, can provide a solid footing for a prosperous future? 

On February 5th, we were joined by Dr. Brad deYoung, professor of oceanography at Memorial, and Elizabeth Beale, economist and advisor at the Canadian Institute for Climate Change, to launch our new series, ForecastNL!

After a welcome from Memorial's president, Dr. Vianne Timmons, Dr. Rob Greenwood and Cathy Newhook took the audience on a tour of the Harris Centre's new public engagement platform--this website! After this, we took some time to talk to Dr. deYoung and Ms. Beale about the impacts of climate change on NL, and what we hope to achieve with this project.

If you missed the live session, you can watch the recording below (hosted on YouTube):

We encourage everyone to leave their comments and questions in the forum below, and get our conversation started. Got a question for Brad or Elizabeth? We'll make sure they get it, and post their replies here, too!

-Mandy

This is your spot to share any interesting reports, links, infographics, pictures, videos, and so on, that you think are relevant and might be of use to the ForecastNL community.

On March 10th, we heard from Dr. Joel Finnis, Dr. Ashlee Cunsolo, and Ashley Smith on the impact climate change is having on Newfoundland and Labrador--and some advice about the actions that we can take to mitigate and adapt.

You can view the recording of the session, above, and then feel free to post your thoughts, concerns, or questions below!

Our third session aired on 22 April 2021. You can watch the embedded recording above, or directly on our Youtube channel.

Please share your comments and questions below! Our panelists will be joining us to take part in a follow-up Discussion, and we will be posting questions and comments from the Chat and Q&A sections of the live webinar.

To read a summary brief of key points related to this topic, click here.

Our third session aired on 6 May 2021. 

You can watch the embedded recording above, or directly on our Youtube channel.

Please share your comments and questions below! Our panelists will be joining us to take part in a follow-up Discussion, and we will be posting questions and comments from the Chat and Q&A sections of the live webinar.

To read a summary brief of key points related to this topic, click here.

Our fifth session, Climate Change and Our Society, aired live on May 18th, 2021. Prof. Mark Stoddart (MUN, Sociology), Dr. Barb Neis (MUN, Sociology), Josh Smee (Food First NL), and Megan Samms (Live Textiles) joined Dr. Greenwood to talk about the impact climate change is having on our province, in terms of infrastructure, employment, food security, vulnerable populations, and so much more. Watch the recording above and leave your comments and questions below!

Check out our latest session, on NL's offshore oil and gas industry and climate change! 

You can watch the video below, or on YouTube.

We'll be posting some comments and questions here, as well, that we weren't able to get to live.

Let us know what you thought!

Watch the recording of the session below and then take part in the conversation!