{"id":2566,"date":"2022-05-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/?p=2566"},"modified":"2023-03-22T03:42:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T10:42:09","slug":"getting-serious-about-climate-change-how-business-must-step-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/2022\/05\/23\/getting-serious-about-climate-change-how-business-must-step-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting serious about climate change: How business must step up (Jun 16)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UBC is hosting an online climate action panel event featuring UBC-DIBS researcher Kate White! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On <strong>Thursday June 16, 2022<\/strong>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sauder.ubc.ca\/node\/3751\">Montalbano Centre for Responsible Leadership Development<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sauder.ubc.ca\/thought-leadership\/research-outreach-centres\/dhillon-centre-home\">Peter P. Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics<\/a> at the UBC Sauder School of Business and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.ubc.ca\" target=\"_blank\"><em>alumni UBC<\/em><\/a> present <strong><em>Getting serious about climate change: How business must step up<\/em><\/strong>, a climate action panel event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Panelists include:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Naomi Klein<\/strong> (she\/her) \u2013 UBC Professor of Climate Justice and Co-Director, UBC Centre for Climate Justice&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Carol Liao<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 (she\/her) \u2013 Associate Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, Principal co-Investigator of the Canada Climate Law Initiative, UBC Sauder Distinguished Scholar, and Director of the Centre for Business Law&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Tamara Vrooman<\/strong> (she\/her) \u2013 President &amp; CEO, Vancouver Airport Authority&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Kate White&nbsp;<\/strong>(she\/her) \u2013 Academic Director, Peter P. Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics, Senior Associate Dean, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, UBC Sauder School of Business, Professorship in Consumer Insights, Prosocial Consumption and Sustainability and Professor, Marketing and Behavioural Science Division&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event will be moderated by host and producer of CBC Vancouver News Lien Yeung (she\/her), with opening remarks by Grosvenor Professor of Cities, Business Economics and Public Policy and UBC Sauder School of Business Dean Robert Helsley (he\/him).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Registration for the event is free and will be broadcast virtually to be accessible to a broader audience.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ubc.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_9kOctpfpQrGNRjs-6RJCxA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Register to attend.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UBC is hosting an online climate action panel event featuring UBC-DIBS researcher Kate White [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28042,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,13,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-ubc","category-events","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2566"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2649,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions\/2649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}