With the goal of assessing the world’s progress on limiting climate change, global leaders and climate experts will gather at the United Nations Climate Change Conference – COP28.
The summit is taking place in the United Arab Emirates from Nov. 30 to Dec. 12, 2023 and the following experts from Western University are available to comment:
Diane-Laure Arjalies
Associate Professor, Ivey Business School
Areas of expertise: Conservation finance, channelling of capital towards the protection of ecosystems.
Tima Bansal
Professor, Ivey Business School; Canada Research Chair in Business Sustainability
Areas of expertise: The interplay between business strategy and sustainability.
Bipasha Baruah
Professor, Women’s Studies and Feminist Research
Areas of expertise: Climate change and human development, women’s participation in the green economy, Canada Research Chair in Global Women’s Issues.
Dr. Anna Gunz
Assistant Professor, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Areas of expertise: The interface of climate change and health including health system implications, impacts on community and individual health; planetary health and health monitoring of climate change.
Katrina Moser
Associate Professor and Chair, Geography and Environment
Areas of expertise: Climate warming impact on water resources, climate change and extreme heat, wildfires, drought, environmental change in the Canadian Rockies.
Gordon McBean
Professor Emeritus, Geography & Environment
Areas of expertise: Climate change science and policy, natural hazards-prediction and mitigation, weather and environmental prediction systems.
Joshua Pearce
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ivey Business School
Areas of expertise: Solar technology for climate solutions, agrivoltaics, carbon emissions mortality, carbon emissions liability, John M. Thompson chair in Information Technology and Innovation.
Nicole Redvers
Associate Professor, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Areas of expertise: Indigenous health, planetary health, Indigenous knowledge translation. Western Research Chair and Director of Indigenous Planetary Health
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