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Nanaimo Climate Connections 2025

Friday, September 12, 2025 9:00 a.m.
Saturday, September 13, 2025 6:00 p.m.

Wellington Hall 3922 Corunna Avenue Nanaimo, BC, V9T 1W5 Canada (map)

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Nanaimo’s inaugural community climate event, hosted by Nanaimo Climate Action Hub, which will take place at Wellington Hall in Nanaimo, Sept. 12th and 13th, 2025! This year’s theme is: **Local Actions in a Global Crisis.** Together, we will explore how collectively we can affect significant impact toward addressing the climate emergency.

Keynote speakers include:

Seth Klein, Opening Keynote

Seth is the Team Lead and Director of Strategy with the Climate Emergency Unit. Prior to that, he served for 22 years as the founding director of the British Columbia office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), a social justice think tank. He is now a freelance policy consultant, speaker, researcher and writer, and author of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency.

Seth is a regular columnist with Canada’s National Observer, an adjunct professor with Simon Fraser University’s Urban Studies program, and serves on the board of the BC Society for Policy Solutions.

Laura Lynch, Closing Keynote

Laura Lynch is an award-winning journalist and is the host of CBC’s What On Earth. In the course of her career, she has reported from across Canada and around the world. In the 1990’s she covered the Supreme Court of Canada as it broke new ground with precedent setting Charter of Rights rulings.

She has also covered Parliament Hill, covering everything from gun control, to abortion to international trade. Internationally, Laura was based in Washington D.C. during and after the attacks of September 11, 2001, then was posted to London for 9 tumultuous years that featured political turmoil and violent attacks blamed on terrorism. She reported from many other nations and conflicts too numerous to list.

After many years abroad, Laura is back where she started in Vancouver using her years of experience to tell Canadians what they need to know about climate change, its challenges and solutions.