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Our Strategic Plan

The Strategic Plan 2009-2013 was published in April 2009 and outlines PCIC objectives over this five-year period:

  • PCIC will continue to work in the theme areas of Hydrologic Impacts and Regional Climate Impacts while initiating and building expertise in the theme areas of Climate Analysis and Monitoring as well as Ocean Influences

  • PCIC will take steps to increase collaboration with the University of Victoria and the extramural experts and affiliates of the consortium

  • PCIC will emphasize targeted scientific research and inform climate change adaptation policy

In addition, PCIC will maintain momentum through its Vision, Mission, Scope, Focus, Products and Goals.

Vision

The Vision of the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium is to stimulate collaboration among government, academe and industry to reduce vulnerability to extreme weather events, climate variability and the threat of global change. The consortium for climate impacts will bridge the gap between climate research and climate applications and will make practical information available to government, industry, and the public.

Mission

The Mission of the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium is to quantify the impacts of climate change and variability on the physical environment of the Pacific and Yukon region.

Scope

The Scope of the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium is the physical sciences that describe climate, its variability and change, including extreme events, in the Pacific and Yukon region.

Focus

The Focus of the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium is on climate stakeholders in industry, government, commerce and communities that require climate information for adaptation to future climate conditions.

Products

The Products of the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium are analyses of historical trends and climate conditions as well as estimates of future environmental design conditions for the 21st century.

Goals

  • to foster collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches to applied research on meteorology, hydro-climatology, atmospheric science, climate variability and climate change

  • to provide climate information for policy development and decision-making in the social sciences and economics

  • to channel and strengthen the capacity to inform and engage stakeholders in understanding regional climate change and variability, including extreme weather events

  • to perform targeted research on the needs of public and private sectors in order to provide the physical basis and the analytical tools necessary for adaptation to climate change