Speaker: Ian McLachlan, Manager – Climate Action, B.C. Ministry of Agriculture
Topic: Climate Change For Innovation
Date & Time: Friday March 8, 2019 3:30pm
Venue: MCML 160
About the Speaker:
Ian helped set up the Ministry’s climate action team in 2008, and has led the team and the climate change file since 2012. In 2013 he worked with the B.C. Agriculture & Food Climate Action Initiative to develop, launch, and implement an industry-led climate change adaptation program funded with $6 million over 5 years (now renewed to 2023). Before joining the Ministry, Ian’s career included working on tax and economic policy with the Saskatchewan Finance Ministry, doing economic evaluations on international oil and gas projects with a major Canadian energy company, supporting the B.C. Chief Forester to make allowable annual cut determinations, and providing socio-economic and environmental assessments for strategic land use plans in Central Coast, North Coast, Sea-to-Sky, Haida Gwaii, Lillooet, Morice, and elsewhere in B.C.
All are welcome!
Kind regards,
Shristee
Shristee Rahman MFRE
Educational Researcher
Land and Food Systems | Master of Food and Resource Economics
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus
348A-2357 Main Mall | Vancouver British Columbia | V6T 1Z4 Canada
shristee.rahman@ubc.ca
http://mfre.landfood.ubc.ca
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