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Climate Justice is a Business Responsibility

April 3, 2025, 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm

BC Hydro Theatre, Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability, 2260 West Mall

What is the role of businesses in working towards climate justice?

This expert panel will discuss the opportunities, constraints and responsibilities that corporations have in adapting their business practices to address the unequal impacts of climate change, considering their different emissions contributions. Speakers will examine the extent to which businesses are able to —and should—be socially and environmentally responsible. 

The roundtable discussion will be followed by a Q&A, moderated by Kookai Chaimahawong, Executive Director, Centre for Climate and Business Solutions, UBC Sauder School of Business.

PANELISTS

  • Stephanie Bertels
    Founder, Embedding Project and Professor, Beedie School of Business, SFU
     
  • Carol Liao
    Co-Director, Centre for Climate Justice; Chair, Canada Climate Law Initiative; and Associate Professor, Allard School of Law, UBC
     
  • Andrew Jorgenson
    Professor, UBC Sociology
     
  • David Hardisty
    Associate Professor, UBC Sauder School of Business 

 

Lunch will be provided.
Space is limited. Please register by Tuesday, April 1.

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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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