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New Research

Vital Connections: Critical Infrastructure and Climate Risk

Are B.C.'s infrastructure systems ready for the risks ahead? And how can governments and operators build practical climate resilience?

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A Conversation of a Lifetime

David Suzuki joined PICS to offer words of wisdom, action, and hope.

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Knowledge Highlights

Advancing First Nations climate priorities

PICS Uplifting Reciprocal Research scholars share their graduate research developed in collaboration with First Nations communities across British Columbia.

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PICS funds 30 internships across B.C.

For another consecutive year, PICS has awarded a record-breaking number of climate internships to organizations across the province.

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The Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions catalyzes and mobilizes research, partnerships, and knowledge that generate climate action in British Columbia and around the world.

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Funding Opportunity

Climate Foresight Program

Applications are now open! PICS is looking to fund bold, cross-sectoral research teams ready to explore complex climate challenges and to generate transformative solutions.

Videos

Xpey’ (Cedar) Restoration and Protection

Quw’utsun’ Cultural Connections Society is working to protect xpey’ (cedar), a cultural keystone species facing growing pressures from climate change and land development in the Cowichan Valley.

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Reflections

What I learned about seasonal readiness from inside the health system

PICS intern Andra Tarta reflects on her summer internship with Interior Health, offering an inside look at how seasonal readiness takes shape in practice across the health system.

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Territory Acknowledgments

The PICS main office is located on the territory of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Esquimalt) Peoples, at the University of Victoria.

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Hay’sxw’qa lək̓ʷəŋən elth’telnexw, and W̱SÁNEĆ elth’telnexw
‘I’tsun’ult syaas tu lək̓ʷəŋən tunuxw
Hay’sxw’qa siem si’ye’ye

Thanking all Lekwungen peoples and Saanich peoples.
We work on Lekwungen lands.
Thank you, all respected friends.

SENĆOŦEN

JIEĆEȽ ȽTE OL E TŦE W̱SÁNEĆ I, LEQEṈEN EȽTÁLṈEW̱. ĆȺI ȽTE ȻE ÁȽE TIÁ E TŦE ÁLEṈENEȻs EṮ W̱SÁNEĆ I, LEQEṈEN.

HÍSW̱KE SIÁM

We are thankful to the Saanich and Lekwungen people. We work here in the homelands of the Saanich and Lekwungen peoples. Thank you, honourable ones.

U OȽET ȽTE OL E TŦE MEQ EȽTÁLṈEW̱ ÁȽE I, TŦE MEQ XÁXE TEṈEW̱

We respect all the people here and all the sacred land/s.

At the University of Victoria, where the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS) is hosted, we acknowledge and respect the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Esquimalt) Peoples on whose territory the university stands, and the Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.

PICS and its university network have campuses across the province known as British Columbia. We respect and acknowledge the many unceded traditional territories and Nations where PICS universities stand including:

xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) • Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) • səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) • q̓íc̓əy̓ (Katzie)• kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) • Qayqayt• Kwantlen• Semiahmoo• Tsawwassen• Stó:lō • Syilx (Okanagan) • Dakelh (Carrier) territory: Lheidli T’enneh, Lhtako, Nazko, Lhoosk’uz • ?Esdilagh, a Tsilhqot’in Nation • Dane-zaa territory: Doig River, Blueberry River, and Halfway River• Tsimshian territory: Kitsumkalum, Kitselas, Lax Kw’alaams, and Metlakatla • and Gitwinksihlkw, a Nisga’a Village.