Joanna Eyquem will be speaking at the RIMS Canada Conference on Living on the Edge: Exposure to Flooding and Erosion in Canadian Municipalities on September 12, 2022. Organized by RIMS, The Risk Management Society
The theme of this conference, Turning Tides, reflects the concerns that communities across the country are presently facing. Increased precipitation, rising sea levels, and warmer lake waters all contribute to flooding hazards and subsequent erosion. Risk managers often look to flood risk as a threat that needs to be dealt with, and rightly so. They sometimes neglect, however, subsequent erosion risk to both private properties as well as municipal infrastructure. Municipal governments must be aware of the potential for loss of their own assets as well as liability that can arise when home and business owners look to them for recovery of lost property and livelihoods. Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are an effective way to create resilience in the face of flooding and erosion. Used together with PARA: Protect, Accommodate, Retreat, and Avoid, Nbs, can provide benefits beyond mere protection from flooding and erosion. In this presentation, Joanna Eyquem, from Intact Centre for Climate Adaptation, will join Tracy Eso, of Intact Public Entities, to discuss how climate change is exacerbating flooding and erosion hazards. They will review success stories involving NbS around the globe, areas of concern within our own borders, how municipal government is exposed to third-party liability as well as their own loss of assets due to flooding and erosion. Lastly, they will review unique insurance solutions that have worked in the past to create resilience in the face of rising water and Turning Tides.
Link to register: http://www.rimscanadaconference.ca/#registration-rates–deadlines