Getting serious about climate change: How business must step up

June 16, 2022 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm America/Vancouver

Climate change is one of the most important and pressing challenges facing our planet and humanity today. What is the role of business and the private sector in fighting climate change, and how can (and why must) business step up to address this challenge now?

On Thursday June 16, 2022, the Montalbano Centre for Responsible Leadership Development, the Peter P. Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics at the UBC Sauder School of Business and alumni UBC present Getting serious about climate change: How business must step up, a climate action panel event.

Panelists include: 

  • Naomi Klein (she/her) – UBC Professor of Climate Justice and Co-Director, UBC Centre for Climate Justice  

  • Carol Liao – (she/her) – 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  

  • Tamara Vrooman (she/her) – President & CEO, Vancouver Airport Authority  

  • Kate White (she/her) – 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 

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). 

Registration for the event is free and will be broadcast virtually to be accessible to a broader audience. 

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