Workplace Centre for Spiritual and Ethical Development

Ethics for Breakfast presents

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
7:15 - 8:30 am

Ethics,
Carbon & Politics in B.C.

       with James Tansey, President and Co-founder, Offsetters,
         a leading carbon offset organization in Vancouver, and Executive Director,
        Centre for Sustainability and Social Innovation, UBC

Are you tracking and reducing your climate impact?

What ethical and political challenges lie ahead in B.C., with only three months to go before the United Nations conference on climate change in Copenhagen?

Join James Tansey as he steers us through the climate change debate, both locally and globally, and discusses how each of us can reduce greenhouse gas emissions. He’ll provide leading insights gleaned from his role as president and co-founder of Offsetters, a Vancouver-based organization that helps individuals and companies understand, reduce, track, and offset their climate impact.

In a recent assessment report, the United Nations panel on climate change states that the average global temperature will continue to rise, but the extent and the duration of this rise, and the severity of its consequences, will depend on how quickly and effectively emissions of greenhouse gases can be restricted and, over time, reduced.

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DATE:            Wednesday, September 9th -- 7:15-8:30 am

LOCATION:     BC Hydro Building
                      333 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver
                      2nd Floor Auditorium
                      Check-in at Security Desk - Main floor lobby

COST: Members - $7.00 Non-Members - $10.00
(muffins, tea and coffee included)

About Our Speaker:

James Tansey co-founded the carbon offset organization, Offsetters, in 2005 and currently sits as its President. He is also the Executive Director of the Centre for Sustainability and Social Innovation at UBC, and an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business. He has taught MBA, MSc and EMBA courses, executive education, and undergraduate programs in the United Kingdom and Canada.

James has worked as an advisor and contributor to the World Economic Forum, the UK National Audit Office, Oxford Analytica, Cisco, ISIS Innovation (Oxford), Environment Canada and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency. His recent research has focused on emerging international markets for carbon exchange, social determinants of health in developed countries, and the governance of biotechnology and genomics in Canada.

After receiving his PhD from the University of East Anglia in 1999, James taught in the faculty of graduate studies at UBC. He then returned to the UK as a lecturer in science and technology studies at the Said Business School in Oxford, where he was also deputy director of the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization. He returned to UBC in 2006, joining the Sauder School of Business.

click here to RSVP or call: 604-685-6560