Climate Ready Prairies Project

Structured as both a training program and a research study, the Climate Ready Prairies project aims to equip participants with tools and strategies to effectively communicate and engage with their communities on climate adaptation investment and action.

Project Overview

The Prairie provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba) have been at the forefront of climate change impacts. From flooding, forest fires, droughts and unpredictable winter weather, climate change has made an already variable climate increasingly challenging for everyone. Yet climate adaptation conversations are not happening often enough in the Prairies.

The Climate Ready Prairies project seeks to change this by helping overcome behavioural, social and cultural barriers to climate change adaptation action in the region. Structured as both a training program and a research study, participants will gain practical skills in strategic communications and engagement while also helping to inform the development of a Prairie region-specific communications and engagement training guide.

Explore the project journey

Training Program

Climate Ready Prairies takes participants on a training journey to develop their climate communications and engagement skills from identifying audiences and crafting tailored narratives, to learning best practices for equitable engagement. Delivered in each of the Prairie provinces through in-person and virtual training and supported by an online community of practice. Please note: The training portion of this project is now complete.

Research Study

This training program is part of a broader research project through Carleton University focused on understanding the challenges and strengths within the prairie region for communicating and engaging on climate adaptation. Research methods include a landscape analysis, expert interviews, engagement with Indigenous partners, and feedback gained from the training and participant surveys.

Climate Ready Prairies Guide

The Climate Ready Prairies Guide will bring together valuable insights from the project, providing guidance, best practices, and case studies on how to effectively communicate and engage on climate adaptation within the region. To be notified when the guide is published, please fill out the form below.

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Project Partners

The Climate Ready Prairies project is a three year project delivered in partnership between ClimateWest and Re.Climate, Canada’s go-to centre for training, research and strategy on climate change communications and public engagement.

To ensure the respectful inclusion of Indigenous perspectives and priorities in this project, ClimateWest and Re.Climate are working with Indigenous Engagement Consultant, SevGen Consulting, to help facilitate direct engagement with First Nations, Métis and Inuit organizations and communities across the region leading on climate action and adaptation.

This project is supported by Natural Resources Canada’s Climate Change Adaptation Program.