Water Institute member Blair Feltmate, Professor and Head of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation at Waterloo, gave a talk at a TEDx event about the extreme weather catastrophic loss insurance claims which are becoming the norm, and how fire and too much water in the wrong place has to be our priority to fix.
We can’t afford climate change, so we better prepare for it. Sustainable development expert Blair Feltmate shines a light on the extreme weather catastrophic loss insurance claims which are becoming the norm, and how fire and too much water in the wrong place has to be our priority to fix. Blair is the Head of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation, University of Waterloo. He has written textbooks on Sustainable Banking (University of Toronto Press), and Aquatic Ecology (CAB International).
Blair is Chair, Adaptation Committee, Canadian Institute for Climate Choices, Environment Canada (ECCC). He is a member of the Sustainable Finance Advisory Committee, Global Risk Institute. Blair is on the Advisory Board on Climate Change, Minister of Environment, Ontario. He was Chair, Government of Canada Expert Panel on Climate Adaptation, and Chair, Electricity Transmission and Distribution Adaptation Standard, Canadian Standards Association. He is former Chair of Pollution Probe, and he was Chair/Founding Member of the Sustainable Electricity Program, Canadian Electricity Association.
Blair was an NSERC Canada Post-Doctoral Fellow. He holds a PhD in Theoretical and Applied Ecology, Masters in Sustainable Development, Masters in Zoology, and a Hon. Bachelor’s in Life Sciences. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.