About OCCIAR

Mandate

The mandate of the Ontario Centre for Climate Impacts and Adaptation Resources (OCCIAR) is to:

  1. effectively communicate the science of climate change including its current and future impacts;
  2. encourage the development and implementation of adaptation strategies in order to reduce climate vulnerability and increase resiliency;
  3. to create and foster partnerships with stakeholder groups;
  4. and support the work of Ontario's Expert Panel on Climate Change Adaptation

within the Province of Ontario and beyond. The Centre will also be a hub for climate change impacts and adaptation activities, events and resources.



The Centre will:

  1. hold stakeholder workshops across the province;
  2. enhance existing and foster new relationships with a variety of stakeholder groups;
  3. host and create a webpage with pertinent and up-to-date information on climate change impacts and adaptation;
  4. develop and disseminate resource material pertaining to climate change impacts, vulnerabilities and adaptation;
  5. populate a reference database containing climate change articles, books and other reports;
  6. support and facilitate adaptation planning and action through mainstreaming of climate change into decision-making processes at the community level.