The Green Resilience Project has launched its final report based on community forums it held across the country earlier this year pertaining to the affects of climate change and its links to income insecurity.

Thompson, Flin Flon, Churchill, and Wabowden were the four northern Manitoba communities that took part in the sessions.

Michelle Pruder with Community Futures North Central Development, one of the partners of the project, stated the north has been experiencing impacts climate change is having on economic security in communities citing the winter roads and Churchill’s tourism industry as an example. She says one of our communities is Churchill which is on Hudson Bay and they’ve been watching the effect on Polar bears and on the beluga whales and they rely almost completely on tourism and the effects of that have the potential to really impact them, there’s a lot of fear.

Pruder notes that solutions she heard during the sessions include government funding to support climate action efforts as well as local solutions such as improving recycling systems in communities that can’t afford a recycling program.