COP29 - SFU experts available

The 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP29, is currently being held in Azerbaijan with the aftermath of the U.S. election looming large over the climate talks. SFU experts are available to speak on various aspects of climate change impacting the future of our planet.

AVAILABLE SFU EXPERTS

TACO NIET, assistant professor, sustainable energy engineering | taco_niet@sfu.ca

• Attending COP29 climate talks for the first week
  
• Climate policy & modelling energy alternatives; working with UN member states to assess resource systems to meet Paris Agreement targets 
  
• Energy justice & equity – how to decarbonize our energy system while assuring equitable access to energy & addressing environmental justice considerations
  
  

ANDY HIRA, department chair, professor, political science, director, Clean Energy Research Group | ahira@sfu.ca

• Canadian policy issues related to climate change
• Impact of U.S. election
  
• Energy markets & regulation
• Green transition for remote & developing communities
• Geopolitics of energy

JOHN CLAGUE, professor emeritus, earth sciences, CRC chair in natural hazard science | john_clague@sfu.ca

• Impact of the U.S. election on addressing climate change crisis
  
• Sea-level rise & impacts of climate warming on the cryosphere (glaciers, ice sheets, permafrost)

SAMI KHAN, assistant professor, sustainable energy engineering | s_khan@sfu.ca

• Carbon capture and conversion system to reduce CO2 emissions
• Action Canada Fellow – looking into policy and sustainability

MARK ZACHARIAS, executive director, Clean Energy Canada | For media inquiries, please email Keri McNamra: keri@cleanenergycanada.org

• Climate policy, energy policy, B.C. climate policy, federal climate policy, clean energy, clean tech, clean investment, clean transport, climate advocacy, clean economy.

CONTACT

JEFF HODSON,  SFU Communications & Marketing 
604.616.9271 | jdhodson@sfu.ca

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