{"id":5220,"date":"2019-03-06T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=5220"},"modified":"2019-03-06T16:44:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T23:44:38","slug":"mfre-friday-seminar-march-8-2019-ian-mclachlan-manager-climate-action-b-c-ministry-of-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-5220","title":{"rendered":"MFRE Friday Seminar &#8211; March 8, 2019: Ian McLachlan, Manager &#8211; Climate Action, B.C. Ministry of Agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\/category-front-page\/speaker-series\/speakers-series\/\"><strong>MFRE Speaker Series<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong>\u00a0Ian McLachlan,\u00a0Manager &#8211; Climate Action, B.C. Ministry of Agriculture<\/p>\n<p><strong>Topic:<\/strong>\u00a0Climate Change For Innovation<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date &amp; Time:<\/strong>\u00a0Friday\u00a0March 8, 2019\u00a03:30pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Venue:<\/strong>\u00a0MCML 160<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Speaker:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ian helped set up the Ministry\u2019s 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 &amp; 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p><em>All are welcome!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kind regards,<\/p>\n<p>Shristee<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shristee\u00a0Rahman<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0MFRE<br \/>\nEducational Researcher<br \/>\nLand and Food Systems\u00a0|\u00a0Master of Food and Resource Economics<br \/>\nThe University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus<br \/>\n348A-2357 Main Mall\u00a0|\u00a0Vancouver British Columbia\u00a0|\u00a0V6T 1Z4 Canada<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:shristee.rahman@ubc.ca\">shristee.rahman@ubc.ca<\/a><br \/>\n<u><a href=\"http:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\/\">http:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MFRE Speaker Series Speaker:\u00a0Ian McLachlan,\u00a0Manager &#8211; Climate Action, B.C. Ministry of Agriculture Topic:\u00a0Climate Change For Innovation Date &amp; Time:\u00a0Friday\u00a0March 8, 2019\u00a03:30pm Venue:\u00a0MCML 160 About the Speaker: Ian helped set up the Ministry\u2019s climate action team in 2008, and has led the team and the climate change file since 2012. In 2013 he worked with the&hellip;<\/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-5220","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\/5220","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=5220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5224,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions\/5224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}