\u00a0Senior Climate Policy Adviser, David Suzuki Foundation<\/em><\/p>\nBio:<\/p>\n
Tom Green is Senior Climate Policy Adviser at the David Suzuki Foundation, working to advance climate policies to rapidly reduce emissions and accelerate the shift to a clean economy that delivers wellbeing within planetary boundaries. He advocates for strong federal and provincial climate policies, including on methane, transportation, clean energy transition and carbon pricing.<\/p>\n
From 2019 to 2022, he led the foundation\u2019s Clean Power Pathways project, a collaboration with university research partners that coupled strategic electricity decarbonization modelling research\u202fwith public engagement to advance a national zero-emissions electricity grid by 2035.<\/p>\n
Tom has carried out research and taught at Universidad del Rosario in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, Simon Fraser University, Royal Roads University, Quest University Canada and the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University. He was a founding member of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics. He has a PhD from the University of British Columbia.<\/p>\n
Tom previously worked as socio-economic advisor for Rainforest Solutions Project, a coalition of environmental groups that helped set aside 3.1 million hectares of BC\u2019s Great Bear Rainforest. He also was environmental advisor and assistant to the chief negotiator for the Innu Nation.<\/p>\n
See you next Thursday in the Michael Smith Labs Theatre!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n_______________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n
Bonnie Leung <\/strong><\/p>\nRES Program Support (she\/her\/hers)<\/p>\n
Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES)<\/p>\n
University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory<\/p>\n
Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL Building)<\/p>\n
Room 429 \u2013 2202 Main Mall | Vancouver, BC | V6T 1Z4 | Canada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Next week\u2019s IRES Seminar is in the Michael Smith Labs Theatre: October 26, 2023: IRES Professional Development Seminar with Tom Green Tackling climate change and advancing planetary boundaries: an ecological economist\u2019s forays into research, teaching, policy and advocacy. Time: 12:30pm to 1:20pm Location: Michael Smith Labs Theatre, Room 102, 2185 East Mall No food or…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10032,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031\/revisions\/10032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}