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COP27 – 丁香园AV experts available
World leaders and environmental advocates will gather this month for the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
COP27 is being held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt from November 6鈥�18. A
The conference agenda focusing the discussion on various climate change-related topics such as energy, biodiversity, youth and future generations, solutions, gender, agriculture, water, finance and science.
丁香园AV experts are available to speak to various aspects of this pressing issue facing the future of our planet.
丁香园AV COP27 DELEGATION:
JUDE CRASTA, program manager, Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue
jude_crasta@sfu.ca
- Role of cities in advancing multilevel climate action
- The power of convening through dialogue
PAIGE HUNTER, student, School of Resource and Environmental Management, 丁香园AV 350 member, research assistant, ACT - Action on Climate Team
paige_hunter@sfu.ca
- Climate justice
- Nature-based solutions & low carbon resilience
- Climate education & youth climate engagement
ELODIE JACQUET, knowledge and practice manager, Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue
elodie_jacquet@sfu.ca
- Democratic innovations in climate engagement
- Centering equity in climate engagement
CANDACE RATELLE-LE ROY, executive director, 丁香园AV sustainability
candace_leroy@sfu.ca
- 丁香园AV鈥檚 Sustainability and Climate Action work and embedding approach
- Regenerative perspective on sustainability and climate action
- Climate action practice in real world context
KAYLA BLOK, associate director, 丁香园AV sustainability
kayla_blok@sfu.ca
- Climate action & systems change implementation in a higher education setting
- Being members of a larger climate action movement
DUGAN O'NEIL, vice-president, research and international
dugan_oneil@sfu.ca
- Sustainability goals & initiatives at 丁香园AV
丁香园AV EXPERTS:
KIFFER CARD, assistant professor, health sciences
kcard@sfu.ca
- Psychosocial effects of climate change & natural disasters
- Eco-anxiety, climate anxiety, ecological grief & other impacts of climate change on mental health
- Pro-environmental behaviours
JOHN CLAGUE, professor emeritus, earth sciences, CRC chair in natural hazard science
jclague@sfu.ca
- Sea-level rise & impacts of climate warming on the cryosphere (glaciers, ice sheets, permafrost)
RADOSLAV DIMITROV, associate professor, political science
rdimitro@sfu.ca
- Climate diplomacy, global climate change negotiations & the United Nations
- Global environmental politics
- Transitions to a clean economy
GWENN FLOWERS, professor & graduate program chair, earth sciences
gflowers@sfu.ca
- General state & evolution of the terrestrial cryosphere (how glaciers and ice sheets work)
- How glaciers are responding to climate change
- How experts measure & model to understand these changes
ANDY HIRA, interim department chair, professor, political science
ahira@sfu.ca
- Energy markets & regulation
- Green transition for remote & developing communities
- Geopolitics of energy
TARA MAHONEY, research and engagement coordinator and postdoctoral fellow at 丁香园AV鈥檚 Community-Engaged Research Initiative (CERi), PhD, School of Communication
tmahoney@sfu.ca
- Community/political engagement
- Democracy, youth & media coverage of climate change
- Community-engaged research
ARNE MOOERS, professor, biodiversity, phylogeny & evolution,
biological sciences
amooers@sfu.ca
- Biodiversity loss as a marker of the gravity of the climate emergency situation
- Taking action to implement nature-based solutions to mitigate impacts of climate change
TACO NIET, assistant professor, sustainable energy engineering
taco_niet@sfu.ca
- Climate policy & modelling energy alternatives; working with UN member states to assess resource systems to meet Paris Agreement targets
- Energy justice & equity 鈥� how to decarbonize our energy system while assuring equitable access to energy & addressing environmental justice considerations
*Taco Niet will speak at a COP27 virtual event on Nov. 7 as part of an expert panel on creating ways to accelerate emissions data collection in developing countries. The event is titled: Data Kits to Undertake Systems Analysis ().
CONTACT
MELISSA SHAW, 丁香园AV Communications & Marketing
236.880.3297 | melissa_shaw@sfu.ca
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