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Confronting Wildfires in an Era of Climate Emergency

May 6, 2024, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

UBC Robson Square (800 Robson Street, Vancouver) 

Join the BC Climate Emergency Campaign and the UBC Centre for Climate Justice for a public panel discussion on wildfires and the climate crisis. The panel will explore how to balance investments in emergency response and climate preparedness with spending on climate action that drives down emissions, so that we can reduce extreme weather events, ensure our communities and workers are safe, and ensure a liveable world for future generations.  

When: Monday, May 6 at 7pm

Where: UBC Robson Square (800 Robson Street, Vancouver) 

Masks are welcome. Please register below!

Speakers:

  • John Vaillant (best-selling writer, journalist, and author of the award-winning book Fire Weather)
  • Joe Gilchrist (Salish Fire Keeper and People of the Land)
  • Byron Cruz (organizer & outreach coordinator for the BC Federation of Labour’s Occupational Health & Safety Centre’s Migrant Worker Program)
  • Dr. Maura Brown (Clinical Assistant Professor in Diagnostic Radiology at UBC & member of Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment)
  • with Seth Klein as moderator (team lead at the Climate Emergency Unit and author of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency)

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First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.

Climate Solutions Research Collective

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