Schedule

Wednesday
October 13th, 2021
Presenter

10:45 am – 11 am

Welcome and introductory remarks

TBD

11 am – 12 pm

How do we get to a net-zero energy system?

Chair: TBD

 

Dr. Kathryn Harrison, Professor, Department of Political Science

Dr. Kasun Hewage, Professor, School of Engineering (Okanagan)

Dr. Milind Kandlikar, Professor and Director, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, Professor, School of Public Policy and Global Health

Dr. Hadi Dowlatabadi, Professor,

Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability

 

12 pm - 1pm

KEYNOTE:
Breaking the Energy/ Climate Change Logjam

Chair: TBD

 

Dr. David Wilkinson, Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

 

1 pm - 2 pm

How do we create the social climate for change?

Chair: TBD

 

Dr. Gregory Garrard, Professor, Environmental Humanities (Okanagan)

Dr. Jiaying Zhao, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability

Dr. Shannon Hagerman, Associate Professor, Department of Forest Resources Management

Dr. James Tansey, Associate Professor and Executive Director, Centre for Social Innovation & Impact Investing, Sauder School of Business

 

2 pm – 3 pm

How can we protect ecosystems from climate change?

Chair: TBD

 

Dr. Adam Wei, Professor, Department of Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences (Okanagan)

Dr. William Cheung, Professor and Director, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries

Dr. Elizabeth Wolkovich, Associate Professor, Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences

Dr. Mary O’Connor, Professor, Department of Zoology

 

 

Thursday
October 14th, 2021
Presenter
Theme

10:45 am – 11 am

TBD

Welcome and introductory remarks

11 am – 12 pm

Chair: TBD

 

Dr. Walter Mérida, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Kate Weinberger, Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health

Dr. Mark Johnson, Professor,

Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability

 

How can society adapt to climate change?

12 pm - 1pm

Chair: TBD

 

Dr. Naomi Klein, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, UBC Professor of Climate Justice

 

KEYNOTE

Housing Justice in the Fire Zone - the Case of Paradise

1 pm - 2 pm

Chair: TBD

 

Dr. Simon Donner, Professor,

Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries and Department of Geography

Dr. Rachel White, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences

Dr. Philippe Tortell, Professor and Head, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences

Dr. Christian Schoof, Professor, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences

 

How is the climate system changing?

2 pm – 3 pm

Chair: TBD

 

Dr. David Boyd, Associate Professor of Law, Policy and Sustainability, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability

Dr. Robert Clifford, Assistant Professor, Allard School of Law

Dr. Carol Liao, Associate Professor, Allard School of Law

Dr. Hisham Zerriffi, Associate Professor, Department of Forest Resources Management

How can society achieve a fair and responsible transition?

 

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s two main campuses are situated within the ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.



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