> Backgrounder: SFU climate change expert Mark Jaccard to advise BC government
Backgrounder: SFU climate change expert Mark Jaccard to advise BC government
Contact:
Mark Jaccard, 778.782.4219 or 778.782.6621; jaccard@sfu.ca
Julie Ovenell-Carter, joc@sfu.ca or Marianne Meadahl, Marianne_meadahl@sfu.ca; SFU Public Affairs: 778.782.4323
Mark Jaccard, 778.782.4219 or 778.782.6621; jaccard@sfu.ca
Julie Ovenell-Carter, joc@sfu.ca or Marianne Meadahl, Marianne_meadahl@sfu.ca; SFU Public Affairs: 778.782.4323
November 21, 2007
Simon Fraser University climate change expert Mark Jaccard has been named as a special advisor to BC premier Gordon Campbell’s new 22-member “climate action team” mandated to help the province achieve a one-third cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.
Jaccard, one of nine team members who contributed to the UN’s Nobel-prize winning International Panel on Climate Change, will advise both the advisory team and the cabinet committee on climate change, established last March.
Jaccard is a professor in SFU’s School of Resource and Environmental Management where he directs the Energy and Materials Research Group, one of Canada’s largest energy-environment policy groups.
A former chair of the B.C. Utilities Commission (1992-97) and a consultant to governments nationally and abroad, Jaccard was appointed last year to the federal government's National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy.
He is the author or co-author of three influential books on climate change: The Cost of Climate Policy (UBC Press, 2002); Sustainable Fossil Fuels: The Unusual Suspect in the Quest for Clean and Enduring Energy (Cambridge University Press, 2005); and Hot Air: Meeting Canada's Climate Change Challenge (Douglas Gibson Books, 2007).
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Jaccard, one of nine team members who contributed to the UN’s Nobel-prize winning International Panel on Climate Change, will advise both the advisory team and the cabinet committee on climate change, established last March.
Jaccard is a professor in SFU’s School of Resource and Environmental Management where he directs the Energy and Materials Research Group, one of Canada’s largest energy-environment policy groups.
A former chair of the B.C. Utilities Commission (1992-97) and a consultant to governments nationally and abroad, Jaccard was appointed last year to the federal government's National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy.
He is the author or co-author of three influential books on climate change: The Cost of Climate Policy (UBC Press, 2002); Sustainable Fossil Fuels: The Unusual Suspect in the Quest for Clean and Enduring Energy (Cambridge University Press, 2005); and Hot Air: Meeting Canada's Climate Change Challenge (Douglas Gibson Books, 2007).
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