Stage 2 - Materiality Assessment

In February 2023, as part of the Stage 2 Materiality Assessment, a facilitated half-day in-person workshop with stakeholders from the CMH organization was held to solicit feedback on their understanding of the preliminary environmental sub-topics through two lenses: (1) impacts to the CMH as an organization; (2) perceived significance to internal stakeholders. As an outcome of the working session, an online survey was shared with CMH internal stakeholders to collect feedback on the preliminary list of environmental subtopics.

In March 2023, as part of the climate resilience assessment, a facilitated virtual stakeholder engagement session was held to assess the risk associated with each climate trend. The purpose of this workshop was: (1) to review and validate sensitivity and adaptive capacity scores, and (2) evaluate consequence of climate impact to assess the risk of climate change to the community. Additionally, the workshop was intended to build organizational capacity around integrating climate resilience into future planning for Medicine Hat. A pre-workshop survey was used to gather information from the participants ahead of the session in order to reserve time for conversations around the assessment inputs and outputs.  

The Stage 2 Materiality Assessment Report is currently being finalized with key findings and the project team is preparing for the Stage 3 engagement sessions.