BC Climate Resilience Summit 2026
Coming March
2026
Who We Are
The Cascadia Climate Resilience Society supports the BC Climate Resilience Summit (BCCRS) - a summit series that convenes an interdisciplinary group of practitioners to share knowledge and perspectives on how to build resilience to the impacts of climate change and natural hazard events in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada.
The BCCRS was built off the back of Understanding Risk BC (URBC) - a local spinoff event of the global Understanding Risk (UR) Forum and Community of Practice (COP), which are initiatives of the Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR). The UR global community consists of over 13,000 professionals across industries and sectors actively involved in disaster risk identification and management. Established in 2016, the local BC symposiums emerged in response to the increasing demands from practitioners for actionable and open risk assessment information for the major hazards of concern in the region (e.g. seismic, coastal, and riverine flooding), as well as the federal and BC government’s adoption of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction’s Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030) in 2015 and 2018, respectively.