March 2024
Friday, March 22, 2024, 9–10 AM (EST), Zoom
Topic: “Dare to Inspire Climate Change Research, Policymaking, and Actions: Canada’s Role in the 1st IPCC Scientific Assessment.”
Café Guest
Gordon McBean, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Department of Geography and Environment
Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
Description
Let’s drink in the WeCLISH Climate Café’s Zoom room and connect over an inspiring conversation with our first Café Guest, Dr. Gordon McBean.
As one of the authors of the 1st Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Scientific Assessment Report, he will offer unique insights into Canada’s role in the birth of IPCC and the beginning of a series of Nobel Peace Prize-winning reports kick-started in 1990. Over the years, these reports inspired groundbreaking climate change research, policymaking, and actions in Canada and worldwide.
In continuation of that work, early this year in The Conversation, Dr. McBean draws our attention to the fact that Canada is warming alarmingly faster than other places on Earth. Drawing on their SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant Report, 2021, he emphasizes the importance of engaging with communities – urgently and proactively, across Canada to build a climate-resilient society.
Let’s discuss what that might entail and dare to inspire meaningful research, policymaking, and actions to make Canada and the world adapt to and mitigate climate change.
Pre-Readings/Resources
McBean, G., McCarthy, J. 1990. Narrowing the uncertainties. In J.T. Houghton, G. J. Jenkins and J. J. Ephraums (Eds), Climate Change: The IPCC Scientific Assessment (pp. 311–328). Cambridge University Press.
McBean, G., P. Kovacs, J.A. Voogt, G.A. Kopp. 2021. Building climate resilient communities: Living within the Earth's carrying capacity. SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant Report, April 2021, 57 pp.
McBean, G. 2024. 2023 was the hottest year in history — and Canada is warming faster than anywhere else on earth. The Conversation.
Post Café Briefs
To be posted after the café session.
