Check out the many organizations offering information and services related to climate change.
| Energy, Non Profit, Professional Association
The Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) Alberta Chapter is a primary source of local training, continuous learning, employment opportunities and professional networking for energy professionals in Alberta.
| Non Profit, Professional Association
The Environmental Services Association of Alberta (ESAA) is a business association with a business approach to providing programs leading to its members corporate success! Since it has been established ESAA has continued to provide its members with educational publications and conferences much needed in the ever changing environmental industry, as well as providing important networking opportunities.
| Education
Founded in 1985, Inside Education is Alberta’s largest environmental and natural resource education charity. They support K–12 school teachers across Alberta and inspire their students when it comes to working towards a balanced, sustainable future for our environment, economy, and society. Their programs focus on experiential education, teacher professional development, grants and youth gatherings.
| Municipal, Resilience & Adaptation
Resilient Rurals is a partnership between the towns of Bruderheim, Gibbons and Lamont for a regional climate change adaptation and resilience project within Alberta’s Industrial Heartland. It’s a new approach – created by small towns, for small towns.
| Agriculture, Non Profit
Alberta-based non-profit society working to enhance the global competitiveness of Canada’s forestry and agriculture sectors. Deliver meaningful carbon reductions and removals that earn and enhance the opportunities of farmers, ranchers and foresters. This is accomplished through the adoption of technologies and management practices.
| Green Buildings, Non Profit, Training & Credentials
The Canada Green Building Council is a not-for-profit, national organization that has been working since 2002 to advance green building and sustainable community development practices in Canada. The CaGBC is the Canadian license holder for the LEED green building rating system and supports the WELL Building Standard in Canada. It has developed a made-in-Canada climate solution in the Zero Carbon Building Program, with education and events, research, and the industry’s foremost standards.
| Energy, Non Profit, Research
The Pembina Institute is working to maintain a healthy environment, a stable climate and prosperous communities by fostering collaboration, evidence-based decision making and innovative solutions. Alberta-born, the institute works across Canada providing research and analysis, convening stakeholders, and lending credible perspectives to the public debate.
| Non Profit, Planning and Policy, Research, Resilience & Adaptation, Training & Credentials
ClimateWest is the central hub for climate services in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta providing access to regionally relevant climate information and the support to use it effectively in planning and decision making. The organization’s mandate is to deliver credible, useful, and timely climate information, data, and tools tailored to the Prairie region in support of positive adaptation to climate change.
| Non Profit, Public Engagement
The Alberta Environmental Network (AEN) connects Albertans and environmental groups that are dedicated to preserving and protecting Alberta’s environment. As a non-profit and non-partisan organization, the AEN supports collaboration of the environmental community throughout the province.
| Non Profit, Public Engagement
The Biosphere Institute of the Bow Valley empowers local residents, businesses and visitors to be active environmental stewards, through targeted education, research, and community engagement.