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
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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
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2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
- Implications of the remaining carbon budget for climate policies and emissions targets, featuring Damon Matthews
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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
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Territorial Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that Concordia University is located on unceded Indigenous lands. The Kanien’kehá:ka Nation is recognized as the custodians of the lands and waters on which we gather today. Tiohtià:ke/Montréal is historically known as a gathering place for many First Nations. Today, it is home to a diverse population of Indigenous and other peoples. We respect the continued connections with the past, present and future in our ongoing relationships with Indigenous and other peoples within the Montreal community.
If you are not joining from Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, you can learn more about the land you are on.
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.