The University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia experts are available for media commentary on the 17^th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP17) in Durban, South Africa, from Nov. 28-Dec. 9. Two researchers, Frank Tester and Neil Thomson, will attend the conference in person.

Frank Tester
UBC School of Social Work
Tel: 778-689-3431 (until Nov. 30)
Email: frank.tester@ubc.ca, aprildutheil@hotmail.com (after Nov. 30)

• Tester will attend the conference with Inuit youth and UBC student April Dutheil to raise awareness of climate change impacts on Inuit people and the Arctic
• Follow http://nanisiniq.tumblr.com or @NanisiniqArviat via Twitter

Rashid Sumaila
UBC Fisheriers Centre
Email: r.sumaila@fisheries.ubc.ca

• Sumaila will attend and speak at the conference on December 3; his talk is titled “Climate Change Impacts on the Biophysics and Economics of World Fisheries”
  
• Climate change, sustainability and the environment
• The economic impacts of climate change on the global ocean
• Recent study: Effects of climate change to further degrade fisheries resources

Neil Thomson
UBC Sauder School of Business, ISIS
Email: neil.thomson@sauder.ubc.ca
Cell: 778.994.9659

• Thomson will attend the conference from Dec. 4-9 as part of a delegation put together by international NGOs - the Climate Registry and the Climate Action Reserve.
• Grew up in South Africa
• Researches low-carbon economic opportunities and carbon markets

Simon Donner
UBC Dept. of Geography
Tel: 604.561.7284
Email: simon.donner@geog.ubc.ca
Web: www.simondonner.com/

• Key issues facing this year’s conference
• How to manage $100 billion in annual climate change aid
• National and global implications of conference ideas and policy considerations
• Climate change, sustainability and the environment

John Robinson
UBC Sustainability Initiative
Institute of Resources, Environment and Sustainability
UBC Dept. of Geography
Tel: 604.822.9188
Email: john.robinson@ubc.ca
Web: http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2011/11/03/ubc-opens-north-america%E2%80%99s-most-sustainable-building/

• Creator of North America’s greenest building at UBC
• Co-author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report that shared Nobel Prize with Al Gore in 2007
• Climate change science, policy and solutions and sustainability

Michael Byers
Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law
UBC Dept. of Political Science
Tel: 604.822.3049
Email: michael.byers@ubc.ca
Web: http://byers.typepad.com/

• International law implications of the conference
• The Arctic and climate change

James Tansey
UBC Sauder School of Business
Tel: 604.827.4443
Email: james.tansey@sauder.ubc.ca
Web: http://www.sauder.ubc.ca/Faculty/People/Faculty_Members/Tansey_James

• National and global implications of conference ideas and policy considerations
• Carbon markets, clean technology and green business

Benjamin Richardson
Canada Research Chair in Environmental Law & Sustainability
UBC Faculty of Law
Tel: 604.827.4823
Email: richardson@law.ubc.ca
Web: http://www.law.ubc.ca/enlaw

• Environmental and sustainability law and policy
• International law

Kathryn Harrison 
UBC Dept. of Political Science
Tel: 604-822-6701
Email: harrison@politics.ubc.ca
Web: http://www.politics.ubc.ca/about-us/faculty-members/full-time-faculty/kathryn-harrison.html

• Canada’s environmental laws and policy positions
• The politics of carbon pricing

Hisham Zerriffi
UBC Liu Institute for Global Issues
Email: hisham.zerriffi@ubc.ca
Web: http://www.ligi.ubc.ca/?p2=/modules/liu/profiles/profile.jsp&id=7

• How to manage $100 billion in annual climate change aid
• Climate change adaption and mitigation, green technologies

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