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BC Climate Resilience Summit 2025

March 3 - March 4, 2025

UBC Robson Square 800 Robson Street Vancouver, BC V6Z 2E7

About this event

A Call to Action for a Climate and Disaster Resilient BC

The BC Climate Resilience Summit 2025 will be a 1.5 day event designed to foster cross-sectoral dialogue with the ultimate aim of enhancing resilience across various sectors. It will bring together stakeholders from government, academia, insurance and finance, small and medium size businesses, and other key industries and sectors to explore cross-cutting themes in climate risk management, low carbon resilience and disaster risk reduction. The summit will feature a lineup of leaders in the climate resilience space and result in a communique that clearly outlines needs and opportunities for advancing climate and disaster resilience in the province.

We are grateful to host this event from the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish people; xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh). We welcome participation and leadership from all indigenous people and are proud to offer participation support for all who would like to contribute.

If you/your organization are interested in sponsoring, participating in/supporting the program- please reach out anytime (jessica@thriveconsulting.me).​ Similarly, if you would like to participate and experience barriers to do so, please reach out to discuss how we can accommodate.

Key themes will include:

* Climate Scenarios & Showcase of Local, Regional and National Risk Assessments
* Housing as a Solution for Climate, Connection, and Equity
* Transformational Adaptation to Coexist with Wildfire in BC
* Sustainable & Resilient Finance for Transition & Physical Risks
* Regional Risk Governance
* Insurance Affordability, Availability & Advancing the Incentivization Agenda

Featuring Contributions From:

  • Don Iveson, Executive Advisor (Climate Investing and Community Resilience), The Co-operators
  • Kookai Chaimahawong, Executive Director, UBC Sauder, Centre for Climate and Business Solutions (CCBS)
  • Jessica Shoubridge, Founder & Principal, Thrive Consulting
  • Sharmalene Mendis-Millard, Director, Partners for Action (P4A)
  • George Benson, Senior Manager (Economic Development and Market Transformation), The Zero Emissions Innovation Centre (ZEIC)
  • James Whitehead, Engagement Analyst, SFU Mitigating Wildfire
  • Tamsin Mills, Director (Climate Resilience and Adaptation), Pinna Sustainability
  • and more!

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First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.

Climate Solutions Research Collective

UBC receives support for managing its research enterprise from the federal Research Support Fund.

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