Christine Hoicka, Canada Research Chair in Urban Planning for Climate Change, Director of the Re-Imagining, Social Energy Transitions (ReSET) CoLaboratory, Associate Professor in Geography and Civil Engineering, University of Victoria, Canada.    

Endorsement:

As universities are well placed to respond to the climate crisis and climate injustices in their key roles of teaching, research and community engaged research, the Climate Action Plan for the University of Alberta is an important call to action. The Plan is thorough in its coverage, providing a set of principles grounded in justice and ecologically informed action areas and recommendations for new avenues for research, pedagogy and governance. As such, the Plan comprehensively lays out a compelling argument and proposed pathway of how the University of Alberta can harness its values to create a new legacy by helping society unlearn our approaches of the past that led to the current climate crisis. With a focus on working with citizens to solve urgent societal problems in a just and democratic manner, the University of Alberta can create more room to focus on the development and diffusion of low-carbon innovations, a growing and important field, with room for new research and discovery.

Christine Hoicka is a recognized expert in justice in low-carbon energy transitions. CoLaboratory https://www.socialexergy.com