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As people around the world mark Earth Day today, the pandemic offers a lesson about what’s possible when people and decision makers agree to make significant changes, says a climate researcher.The . . .
The impact is unlikely to last in a post-pandemic world, but it has demonstrated the impact of policy making and collective actions, said Hannah Teicher, a researcher in residence for the built environment at the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, based at the University of Victoria. “If nothing else, it maybe helps to motivate people to see that we can make a change, and even in a short term, that there’s a real difference,” Teicher said. “I think that the biggest lesson for climate from COVID is just the impact that we can have when communities and governments come together and get behind our common goal, and that we actually really need to do something.”
VICTORIA This week, the University of Victoria announced it would spearhead a project to help identify more eco-friendly ways of stopping - or dealing with - rising ocean levels. The project, called Living with Water, will partner the University of Victoria s Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions with climate leaders from several B.C. universities. The key goal of the four-year project is to connect coastal communities, identify environmentally friendly ways of dealing with rising tides, and give regional governments the ability to implement the ideas. Stoked by climate change, scientists believe B.C. coastal communities will experience anywhere from a half-metre to a full metre of ocean rise before the end of the century.