Escalating Wildfires: Join PICS and the British Consulate-General Vancouver webinar on innovative wildfire research
Escalating Wildfires: Adaptation and mitigation strategies for communities & forests
Join PICS and the British Consulate-General Vancouver for a public webinar on October 26 to discuss innovative wildfire research and nature-based solutions in the lead up to the United Nations Climate Change conference (COP26) in Glasgow.
Forests are one of our strongest assets in the fight against climate change but wildfires threaten to turn that asset into a liability by releasing huge quantities of carbon to the atmosphere.
Investigators from PICS Wildfire and Carbon project and partners will explore how we arrived at our current wildfire predicament and discuss the complex risks that wildfires pose to human health, forests, and carbon dynamics.
Panelists will draw connections to highlight potential solutions to 1) adapt to the escalating threat of wildfires, 2) reduce wildfire emissions and 3) stabilize forest carbon stocks/sinks.
Panel discussion followed by Q&A.
Event Details
Date:
October 26, 2021
Venue:
Webinar
Agenda:
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Speakers:
Werner Kurz, senior research scientist, Canadian Forest Service
Kira Hoffman, fire ecologist at UBC and former wildland firefighter
Angela Yao, regional epidemiologist at the BC Observatory for Population & Public Health;
Carly Phillips, moderator and researcher with the PICS Wildfire and Carbon project.
For more information visit the PICS website.
