PNW Climate Week Vancouver [Opening Ceremony] - Moving Toward Climate Action: Community Panel

​🍃 Kick off PNW Climate Week with Vancouver, BC’s official opening ceremony - Moving Toward Climate Action!

​🌎 Climate action was never a one-person job…it requires the community to build momentum and protect what we value – our ecosystems, each other, and our future. We have an amazing line-up of speakers for our panel discussion, each activating a different part of the ecosystem, from regenerative farms to sustainable transit, and public policy to sentiment, and would love to see you there!

​This is a community event and panel, to spark conversation, and discover how you can turn climate concern into action! This evening belongs to everyone who lives in Vancouver, BC. Bring a friend, bring your questions, and let us start the week the way we mean to continue it.

​🎤 Panelists

​Seth Klein, author of A Good War, preparing Canada for the Climate Emergency

​Aaron Joe, Founder of Salish Soils

​Ralf Neilsen, Director of Enterprise Sustainability, Translink

​Jiaying Zhao and Elizabeth Dunn, co-authors of Leave the Lights On

​Moderated by Chloë Fraser, communications leader, facilitator, and storytelling consultant

​✏️ Agenda

​5:00 – 5:20pm: Check-in & mingle

​5:20 – 5:40pm: Opening remarks

​5:40 – 7:10pm: Panel discussion + Q&A

​7:10 – 7:30pm: Wrap-up & adjourn

​Check out a book sale, and a Seed Swap, provided by Langara Library’s Climate Action Group.

​This session is free, and food and beverages are provided! Register now, space is limited!

​📷 By attending, you consent to being photographed during the event.

​We acknowledge that we physically and digitally work and live on the unceded, ancestral, and traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. We also recognize the Katzie, Kwantlen, Kwikwetlem, Qayqayt, Semiahmoo, S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō), Stz'uminus, scəwaθenaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsawwassen), and all Coast Salish Peoples on whose land we are honored to be newcomers and guests. We further acknowledge that Indigenous Peoples in Canada are the original climate experts and stewards of the land. We acknowledge that PNW Climate Week is on a learning and unlearning journey in truth and reconciliation.