Whitehorse Climate Change Adaptation Plan - Yukon College

Whitehorse Climate Change Adaptation Plan
and culture, health, and education sectors were removed from consideration in the Tier II
assessment due to the low level of risk from climate change. A comprehensive description of all
sectors is documented in the “Future Histories of Whitehorse: Scenarios of Change” (NCE, 2010).
The remaining moderate to high-risk sectors are evaluated in the following sections and use
more detailed evaluation criteria.
COMMUNITY-BASED CONSEQUENCES: TIER II RISK ASSESSMENT RESULTS
In the second stage of the vulnerability assessment the relative rankings of likelihood, level of
impact and adaptive capacity were assessed, but this time on a consequence by consequence
basis. Figure 7 illustrates the distribution of risk by sector and priority.
Figure 7. Distribution and priority of climate-change consequences by sector.
Eighteen high-priority risks were identified through the evaluation of risk documented in full in
Appendix E. Priority risks are listed in Table 6. Those sectors which were prioritized as high in the
Tier I risk assessment tend to have more high-ranking impacts. However, in every sector, there
are impacts ranging from low to high.
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