design thinking, new learning, carbon economy, sustainability, green cities
Yesterday at the Gaining Ground/Resilient Cities conference Mayor Gregor Robertson welcomed over 750 participants and took the opportunity to give them a sneak peek at Vancouver 2020: A Bright Green Future, the 10-year plan which is the result of almost a year’s work by the Mayor’s Greenest City Action Team (GCAT). The report includes 10 […]
Speakers from all over the world – chaired by Gavin Jennings, Minister for Environment and Climate Change for Victoria, Australia and moderated by Don Paul, the ED of the University of Southern California Energy Institute. I’d like to highlight three speakers: Roberto Formigoni, President, Lombardy Regional Administration, Italy: Talked about the importance of sub-national/regional leadership […]
If global temperatures increase “only” 2 degrees, the World Bank estimates that the cost of adaptation with be $75B -$100B per year until 2050. Whew. Another speaker at the Global Climate Summit 2 “Adaptation Panel” was Michele de Nevers, the Senior Manager of the Environment Department at The World Bank. She stated that for developing countries, […]
The Obama administration was present in full force at the Summit. Nancy Sutley, Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and principal policy advisor to President Obama emphasized the importance of research leadership – the Carbon Capture Research Initiative, China-US collaborations and also Australia-US partnerships developing on the research front. I wondered where […]
The experience of LA is still overwhelmingly one of cars, cars and more cars. On a previous trip, with Jane Bird, CEO of Canada Line leading the way, we took transit to the airport – actually it didn’t quite make it to the airport – there was a transfer to a shuttle bus from the […]
Hello world! This is my first post in my new position as Professor at the UBC Sauder Business School. I am really looking forward to joining the Sauder community — a great platform for continuing the work that I have been doing over the past year with the Pacific Coast Collaborative (www.pacificcoastcollaborative.org). I did […]