PICS CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH SFU UBC LECTURE SERIES
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When: September 23, 2014 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Where: UBC Robson Square, Room C180, 800 Robson Street, Vancouver
Register: climatechangeadaptation.eventbrite.ca
Live Web Stream: pics.uvic.ca/events/live-webcast
Join moderator Tim Takaro, Faculty of Health Sciences, SFU, and speakers Stewart Cohen, Environment Canada, Lori Daniels, Faculty of Forestry, UBC and Jonathan O’Riordan, former Deputy Minister and now advisor with SFU’s ACT, as they share perspectives on climate change impacts and adaptation.
Stewart Cohen is coauthor of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Working Group II report, “Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.” He’ll offer an overview of the report, including future risks for North America: extreme heat events, wildfires and urban flooding.
Lori Daniels will present on BC’s increasing and intensifying wildfires and the adaptation strategies we’ll need to learn to live with them, while Jon O’Riordan offers insight into the future Nexus – our life supporting water, energy, food and ecosystems in a changing climate – and the transformative policies and technologies we’ll need to manage and adapt. After their presentations, Tim Takaro will moderate questions and answers amongst the audience and panelists.
