MCRT
2020-2022
The Manitoba Climate Resilience Training (MCRT) Program delivered a comprehensive suite of training and capacity building modules around the following streams: Planning, Infrastructure, Indigenous, and Northern Business. The workshop materials enhance climate knowledge and help users integrate climate risk and opportunities into decision-making and planning.
Foundational
The foundational modules cover a variety of climate change resiliency basics and are beneficial to all audiences. These modules are recommended prerequisites for future courses.
Infrastructure
The infrastructure sector modules provide training and capacity building, from general principles of climate change to hands-on and technical climate risk assessments, that enable engineers and other infrastructure decision-makers to integrate climate resiliency into their designs and practice.
Indigenous
The Prairie Climate Centre (PCC) has developed many meaningful and reciprocal relationships with indigenous communities and organizations. Through those relationships PCC created content with organizations such as the Assembly of First Nations, Metis National Council and other knowledge keepers from across the country that truly speaks to the importance of indigenous knowledges and future climate solutions.
Planning
The planning sector modules focus on the impacts of climate change that are being seen across Manitoba and highlight the role of planners in addressing these impacts. Training focuses on the effectiveness of planning tools to address climate risks in both public and private settings.
Northern Business
The Manitoba Northern Business sector modules offer capacity building and offer climate resilience training that both highlights the needs of Manitoba northern businesses and industries and provides training and tools to better integrate various types of climate-related adaptive actions into decision-making and planning processes to support increased climate resilience for small and medium enterprise.
Project Partners
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ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability is a global network of more than 1,750 local and regional governments committed to sustainable urban development. As Project Coordinator, ICLEI Canada worked with the province of Manitoba and the four sector groups to build climate change adaptation capacity and develop relevant and accessible training to each of the four sectors’ associated audiences.
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The Prairie Climate Centre developed the planning sector modules and in partnership with Turtle Lodge, the Indigenous modules. PCC was established in 2015 and is located in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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Engineers Geoscientists Manitoba created the infrastructure sector modules. They were established in 1920 and are located in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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Dillon Consulting developed the northern business sector training modules. Dillon Consulting was established in 1946 and has staff located in 20 cities/towns across Canada.
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The Climate and Green Plan Implementation Office, Environment, Climate and Parks of the Government of Manitoba was the MCRT project lead.
Co-funders
Supported by Natural Resources Canada’s Building Regional Adaptation Capacity and Expertise (BRACE) Program
