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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. ´óÏó´«Ã½ experts are available to speak on various aspects of climate change impacting the future of our planet.

AVAILABLE ´óÏó´«Ã½ 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,  ´óÏó´«Ã½ Communications & Marketing 
604.616.9271 | jdhodson@sfu.ca

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