Fifteenth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses
- Responding to the Climate Emergency: Scalable Solutions for the Climate-Nature Intersect
- 20-21 April 2023
- UBC Robson Square, Vancouver, Canada + Online
The climate emergency is now so urgent that for those who understand its seriousness, it can occupy the central place in decision-making. Further for those who don’t understand the issues, climate change is often the issue that is most visible, understandable and actionable – because, like finance, carbon has similar features of fungibility and so solutions can appear to fit more neatly into business-as-usual. Collectively we can think of this as ‘climate myopia’. Whilst it is true that a wide range of issues will be solved by changing the source of our energy, which is the main driver of climate change. There are a whole range of serious nature-based issues such as soil erosion, biodiversity loss, water scarcity, and nitrogen disruption that are based not on the source of energy but how we use that energy to transform the natural world around us. Research suggests that each issue taken on its own has the ability to undermine the long-term wellbeing of people and planet. Innovation takes time and it seems apparent that we have a narrow window to address these multiple issues simultaneously – we also can’t afford to make other issues worse while we deal with a different one. While we need many diverse place-based initiatives, the urgency suggests we need to identify those can be scaled quickly across places. Hence, this year’s conference will focus in specifically on scalable solutions that heal and protect both the climatic system and nature. We welcome papers on this special theme from all disciplines, as well as papers covering all the standard network themes.
Fellow, Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Research Fellow, Deputy Director, and Theme 3 Leader, Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
The Fifteenth International Conference on Climate Change featured plenary sessions by some of the world's leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Principal Specialist for Climate Change, Natural England, United Kingdom
"Tackling the Joint Crises of Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss"
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Rewilding and Social-Ecological Transformation, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Canada
"Responding to the Climate Emergency: Some Provocations"
For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active research interest in the conference themes. Emerging Scholars perform a critical role in the conference by chairing the parallel sessions, providing technical assistance in the sessions, and presenting their own research papers. The 2023 Emerging Scholar Award Recipients are as follows:
Simon Fraser University, Canada
(In-Person)
University of Calgary, Canada
(In-Person)
University College London, UK
(In-Person)
Hokkaido University, Japan
(In-Person)
Florida International University, United States
(In-Person)
University of Sao Paulo, Brazi
(Online Only)
Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, Chile
(Online Only)
University of Delhi, India
(Online Only)
University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
(Online Only)
Universitat Pompeu Fabra/Maastricht University, Spain
(Online Only)
Research, Language, Mind and Cognition Research Group (LanCog), University of Lisbon, Portugal
(Online Only)
University of Barcelona, Spain
(Online Only)
University of British Columbia, Canada
(Online Only)
University of Delta, Nigeria
(Online Only)