Hammond Lecture - Prof. Sarah Burch

Threats to Environmental Sustainability in an Increasingly Populist Climate - Dr. Sarah Burch

Dr. Sarah Burch holds the Canada Research Chair in Sustainability Governance and Innovation. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo. She is an expert in transformative responses to climate change at the community scale, innovative strategies for making progess on sustainability, and the unique contributions that small businesses can make to this solving the complex challenge. She is a Lead Author of the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007) and was named one of Canada's Top 40 under 40^TM in 2018. 

The Hammond Lecture series began in 2000 in honour of Kenneth Hammond, founder of Hammond Manufacturing and former member of U of G's Board of Governors. Hammon was an advocate of environmental and resource issues and environmental education.