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Sustainability & the Climate Crisis

A Sustainability Across Disciplines conference

March 15-19, 2021, Concordia University

The Loyola Sustainability Research Centre and the Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability collaborated with Concordia's 4th Space to host a week of online discussion and conversation on the environmental crisis, focusing particularly on the climate emergency.

Schedule of events

All sessions are available online for free.

Monday, March 15

10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

  • Current topics in sustainability science, featuring Julia Bonaventura, Kai Bruce, Margo Burgess-Pollet, Emily Colins, Vincenzo Corelli, Tania Couture, Alexandria Farrell-Coulas, Yisa Ginath Yuh, Alexa Mantifel, Lana Mutassem, Rain Noakes, Nicholas Pfeiffer-Major, Yann Quash, Michael Jairus Rolheiser, Kayden Schwartz, Alessandra Szilagyi, Naomi Trott, Avery Tyrell, and Alice Yue
  • View recording

12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.

  • Insects: indicators and agents of global change? featuring Emma Despland, Javier Ibara-Issasi, and Pamela Yataco
  • View recording

2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

  • Implications of the remaining carbon budget for climate policies and emissions targets, featuring Damon Matthews
  • View recording

4:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.

  • Emissions targets and a challenge to capitalism?, featuring Anders Bjorn and Daniel Horen Greenford
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Tuesday, March 16

10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

  • Climate change and natural systems, featuring Brian Gallagher, Jeannine-Marie St.-Jacques, Duane Noel, Alex Pace, and Brogan Stewart
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12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

  • Climate action at Concordia: A panel discussion, featuring Amr Addas, Dan Gauthier, and Damon Matthews
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2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

  • Sustainable research through open scholarship, featuring Krista Byers-Heinlein and Pedro Peres-Neto
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4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

  • Next generation cities. Now. featuring Ursula Eicker, Govind Gopakumar, Carmela Cucuzzella, Janis Timm-Bottos, and Erkan Yonder
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Wednesday, March 17

10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

  • The future of biodiversity on a changing planet, featuring Pedro Peres-Neto and Lilian Sales
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11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

  • Decarbonizing and carbon catching for planet positive futures, featuring Satoshi Ikeda
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1:15 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.

  • Sustainability on land and in the water, featuring Clara Freeman-Cole, Sahar Alinezhad, and Jacques Simon-Mayer
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3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

  • Keeping fossil fuels in the ground: The future of climate policy? featuring Angela Carter
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Thursday, March 18

10:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.

  • Using Life Cycle Assessment: A workshop, facilitated by Shannon Lloyd

12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

  • Applications and issues in Life Cycle Assessment: Examining the impacts, featuring Debdeep Chaterjee, Elahe Fakoor, and Zeynab Yousefzadeh
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2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

  • Careers in sustainability, featuring Katerina Fragos, Anthony Garoufalis-Auger, and Faisal Shennib
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4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

  • Confronting the climate crisis: Coffee agroforestry and sustainability, featuring Ivette Perfecto
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Friday, March 19

10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

  • Concordia campus as a living lab, featuring Ursula Eicker, Jing Iris Hu, Alice Jarry, Chunyan Lai, Mohamed Ouf, Cassandra Lamontagne, and Carly Ziter
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12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.

  • Urban sprawl and sustainability, featuring Mirya Reid, Danielle Douez, and Parnian Pourtaherian
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2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

  • The Climate Emergency Committee presents Climate Geopardy, facilitate by Alex Pace
  • View recording

Special thanks

This week-long series was brought to you by:

  • Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability
  • Loyola Sustainability Research Centre
  • 4TH SPACE

With generous support from:

  • Office of the Vice-President
  • Research and Graduate Studies
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
  • Canada Excellence Research Chair in Smart, Sustainable and Resilient Communities and Cities
  • John Molson School of Business
  • Faculty of Fine Arts
  • Department of Biology
  • Department of Communication Studies
  • Department of Economics
  • Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Management
  • Department of Political Science

This event will contribute to Concordia's Sustainability Action Plan by increasing the visibility of sustainability research at Concordia. 

Contact us

For more information or questions, please get in touch with Rebecca Tittler.

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