A Citizens Guide to Climate Success: A Climate Change Symposium

A Citizens Guide to Climate Success: A Climate Change Symposium

Vancouver Island University - Building 355 Room 203. Limited Seating, Please Register in Advance

Come join Keynote speaker Dr. Mark Jaccard to learn and discuss how climate-concerned citizens can overcome myths that hinder us from acting in time to prevent extreme climate impacts. Their actions can involve personal consumption choices (electric vehicles, heat pumps) but these only have an effect if citizens are also engaged in the political process and civil society to elect and support climate-sincere politicians. These personal and collective efforts must align with and foster a global strategy of decarbonization, especially in developing countries. Come to the talk to find out what you can do.

Speaker Dr. Stephanie Cleland to speak on the human health impacts of wildfire smoke inhalation.

Mark's background:

Mark is a professor since 1986 in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University, interrupted in 1992-97 when he served as Chair of the BC Utilities Commission. His PhD in energy economics is from the University of Grenoble, and his research focus is the design and application of energy-economy models for assessing climate policies. Internationally, Mark has served on the IPCC, the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, and the Global Energy Assessment, and domestically on the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy and the BC Climate Action Team. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the CD Howe Institute, and in 2009 was named BC Academic of the Year by the Confederation of University Faculty Associations. In 2006, his Sustainable Fossil Fuels won the Donner Prize. He is one of only eight professors at Simon Fraser University awarded the title, Distinguished Professor. His new book, The Citizen’s Guide for Climate Success, appears in February 2020 with Cambridge University Press.

Stephanie's background:

Dr. Stephanie Cleland joined the Faculty of Health Sciences in September 2023 as an assistant professor and the Legacy for Airway Health Chair in Promotion of Lung Health. She is also a research scientist at the Legacy for Airway Health at the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. Dr. Cleland’s research focuses on evaluating the human health impacts of exposure to climate change-influenced environmental hazards using environmental epidemiology, exposure assessments, and health impact assessments. She holds a PhD and MSPH in Environmental Sciences and Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a BS in Computer Science and Community Health from Tufts University. She conducted her dissertation research as an Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) research fellow at the United States Environmental Protection Agency in the Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Vancouver Island University, 900 Fifth Street, Nanaimo, Canada