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Climate Change Summit

November 17, 2022

Uniting to tackle the impacts of climate change on our communities and organizations.

Join BRMA for a full-day in-person event (with virtual aspects for remote members) as we bring innovative programming on how to prepare for the impacts of climate change on our communities and organizations. Our lineup includes presenters & sponsors from the University of California, British Standards Institute, Fusion Risk Management, and Riskonnect.

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Our Speakers

Tonya York

A warm welcome by our BRMA President.
Overview of the day’s agenda, activities, logistics and welcoming our sponsors.

Kelly Perymon

Join this session to understand what is at stake when it comes to equity and climate justice. We will discuss:
What causes climate change, and how other systems affected?
How has human activity contributed to other related effects?
How is Equity and Climate Justice related?

Chip Franklin

BRMA is privileged to have Chip Franklin help us host and entertain us for our morning events. Chip is an award-winning writer, talk show host, filmmaker, comedian, and musician.

Cheryl Latouche

Herb Garden Hands-On Activity https://projectinabox.org/

Ready to create instructional herb garden kits for youth centers, schools, and nonprofit food assistance programs. These kits will help children and families learn what is needed to cultivate their own food and prepare for climate change that may affect our food crops. Each kit will include all the materials needed for a youth to grow four seed types: parsley, cilantro, chives, and basil. The kits will also provide four pulp baskets to grow each seed type. Volunteers will assemble the seed kits and an informational recipe card for each seed that describes the proper growing instructions and a recipe to try out so they can enjoy their new herbs!
Supplies included: Seeds, coin envelopes, pulp growing baskets, burlap sacks, sprout bags, non-toxic fabric markers, cardstock sheets, sealable sandwich bags, spoons, blank cards and instructional materials.
Makes 2 Herb Garden Kits with 4 types of seeds each.

Renuka Darbha

Herb Garden Hands-On Activity https://projectinabox.org/

Ready to create instructional herb garden kits for youth centers, schools, and nonprofit food assistance programs. These kits will help children and families learn what is needed to cultivate their own food and prepare for climate change that may affect our food crops. Each kit will include all the materials needed for a youth to grow four seed types: parsley, cilantro, chives, and basil. The kits will also provide four pulp baskets to grow each seed type. Volunteers will assemble the seed kits and an informational recipe card for each seed that describes the proper growing instructions and a recipe to try out so they can enjoy their new herbs!
Supplies included: Seeds, coin envelopes, pulp growing baskets, burlap sacks, sprout bags, non-toxic fabric markers, cardstock sheets, sealable sandwich bags, spoons, blank cards and instructional materials.
Makes 2 Herb Garden Kits with 4 types of seeds each.

Dr. Sweet

According to the recently released federal Sea Level Rise Technical Report, sea level along the U.S. coastline is projected to rise, on average, 10 – 12 inches (0.25 – 0.30 meters) in the next 30 years (2020 – 2050), which will be as much as the rise measured over the last 100 years (1920 – 2020). The report provides the most up-to-date sea level rise projections available for all U.S. states and territories that decision-makers can look to for information. The multi-agency effort that lead to the report’s first update since 2017, offers projections out to the year 2150 and information to help communities assess potential changes in average tide heights and height-specific threshold frequencies as they strive to adapt to sea level rise. NOAA National Ocean Service Oceanographer Dr. William Sweet will provide an overview of the report’s findings and what it means for federal, state and local efforts to mitigate the impacts of climate change’s affect on sea level rise.

Brian Zawada

You may have heard of ESG as it is used together as part of a risk management or compliance discussion, but what does the acronym really mean? And what’s the relationship – or potential value-adding relationship – with business continuity and resilience?
Join Brian Zawada and Elliott Yama, Riskonnect, as they discuss ESG, and share their perspective on how companies can share information and prioritize risk treatments that benefit both their organizations and well as people and the planet.

Elliot Yama

You may have heard of ESG as it is used together as part of a risk management or compliance discussion, but what does the acronym really mean? And what’s the relationship – or potential value-adding relationship – with business continuity and resilience?
Join Elliott Yama and Brian Zawada, Riskonnect, as they discuss ESG, and share their perspective on how companies can share information and prioritize risk treatments that benefit both their organizations and well as people and the planet.

Ryan Lynch

This session will educate participants on the types of climate forecasting needed to establish effective climate risk management systems and reporting. Information provided by credible forecasting related to locations throughout the value chain is a crucial element of a climate risk adaptation management system. This enables companies to prioritize efforts and understand how value chain stakeholders understand and manage current and future risks.
Appropriate forecasting identifies the potential for harm and the types of climate disruptions, including: drought, wildfire, sea level rise, extreme rainfall, wind, heat, etc. Information on the current and future operating environments enables companies to then understand the sensitivity to these hazards based on the types of operations, commodities, etc. This analysis then enables companies to assess site practices against these risks, and understand overall vulnerability.

David Bernstein

This session will educate participants on the types of climate forecasting needed to establish effective climate risk management systems and reporting. Information provided by credible forecasting related to locations throughout the value chain is a crucial element of a climate risk adaptation management system. This enables companies to prioritize efforts and understand how value chain stakeholders understand and manage current and future risks.
Appropriate forecasting identifies the potential for harm and the types of climate disruptions, including: drought, wildfire, sea level rise, extreme rainfall, wind, heat, etc. Information on the current and future operating environments enables companies to then understand the sensitivity to these hazards based on the types of operations, commodities, etc. This analysis then enables companies to assess site practices against these risks, and understand overall vulnerability.

Gouri Ganbavale

This session will educate participants on the types of climate forecasting needed to establish effective climate risk management systems and reporting. Information provided by credible forecasting related to locations throughout the value chain is a crucial element of a climate risk adaptation management system. This enables companies to prioritize efforts and understand how value chain stakeholders understand and manage current and future risks.
Appropriate forecasting identifies the potential for harm and the types of climate disruptions, including: drought, wildfire, sea level rise, extreme rainfall, wind, heat, etc. Information on the current and future operating environments enables companies to then understand the sensitivity to these hazards based on the types of operations, commodities, etc. This analysis then enables companies to assess site practices against these risks, and understand overall vulnerability.

Peter Urich

This session will educate participants on the types of climate forecasting needed to establish effective climate risk management systems and reporting. Information provided by credible forecasting related to locations throughout the value chain is a crucial element of a climate risk adaptation management system. This enables companies to prioritize efforts and understand how value chain stakeholders understand and manage current and future risks.
Appropriate forecasting identifies the potential for harm and the types of climate disruptions, including: drought, wildfire, sea level rise, extreme rainfall, wind, heat, etc. Information on the current and future operating environments enables companies to then understand the sensitivity to these hazards based on the types of operations, commodities, etc. This analysis then enables companies to assess site practices against these risks, and understand overall vulnerability.

Christian Erickson

More frequent and intense disasters call for better preparedness at home, school, work and in our neighborhoods. This session will focus on simple first steps individuals and families can take to increase readiness. We will discuss how your preparedness strengthen and helps you contributes to the resilience in your community. Learn about moving your preparedness goals from “you” to “us” and about resources such as Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) and Organizations Preparing for Emergency Needs (OPEN) training that FEMA offers to help prepare the community in the face of more frequent and larger disasters.

Laura Kornutick

In this session you will learn about the intersection of business continuity and ESG and key takeaways to:
Showcase ways BC professionals support ESG today
Leverage data from your BC program to understand your organizations ESG impact
Help your organization succeed on your journey towards operational resilience.

Natasha Tuck

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