Course:BEST402 Industrial Ecology/Guest Lectures
2025
- Application of Life Cycle Assessment in Sustainability Consulting (Dr. Valentina Prado, Principal Consultant at sphera)
- Improving the Sustainability of Consumer Electronics: Professional Learnings and Industry Trends (Dr. Lin Shi, Sustainability Scientist at Amazon Lab 126)
- Sustainability reporting (Dr. Zahra Borghei)
- Use cases for EEIO models (Dr. Wesley Ingwersen, Stanford University)
2024
- The power of automating life cycle assessment (Sam Anderson, Co-founder & CEO of CarbonGraph)
- Interesting insights on environmentally-extended input-output analysis (Prof. Reed Miller, University of Maine)
- Integrated assessment modeling and life cycle assessment (Dr. Paul Wolfram, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
- Guest lecture by Mr.Francis Sullivan (Independent Chair of Sustainable Biomass Program)
2023
- The interplay between resource use and climate action in industrial systems (Prof. Qian Zhang, Queens University)
- Climate Change and Direct Air Capture (DAC) Technologies (Dr. Mohsen Mandegari, Carbon Engineering Ltd.)
- Data-Driven Environmental System Analysis: Addressing Data Gap in Life Cycle Assessment by Using Artificial Intelligence (Dr. Bu Zhao, Cornell University)
- Guest lecture on corporate sustainability by Mr. Kyle Aben (West Fraser)
2022
- Overview of City of Vancouver's Climate Emergency Action Plan (Ms. Tina Barisky, City of Vancouver)
- Interpreting Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Results - Case Study: Fast Pyrolysis of Forest Biomass (Prof. Paul Stuart, Polytechnique Montréal)
- Corporate responses to climate change (Prof. Hamish van der Ven, UBC)
- BIM-LCA (Prof. Haibo Feng, UBC)
- UBC Climate Action Plan 2030 (Mr. Bud Fraser, UBC)
- Guest lecture on corporate sustainability by Mr. Bill Adams (Chief Sustainability Officer at Mercer International Inc.)