Candidate for Honors B.A. of Geography & Honors Business Administration at Western University. Passionate about sustainability and social impact in the business world.
Professional experience and Internship[edit | edit source]
L'Oréal (Shanghai, China) - Sustainability Intern
Conducted research on flexible plastic packaging waste classification in China; research
ed local policies and waste classification apps and identified the challenge of lack of consumer education and information; report was taken into consideration for L’Oréal China’s Product Information Labelling program
PwC Strategy& (Beijing, China) - Sustainability and Climate Change
Accomplished the research report on Pathway to Net Zero: SDG Practices of Enterprises in China with UNDP China; drafted survey questions to tailored to understand enterprises’ willingness towards sustainable development; interviewed leading companies on their SDGs initiatives and completed case studies; built models to analyze results from 100+ companies via Excel and drafted the report with guidance from supervisors and UNDP experts
Global Assembly (Remote)
The Global Assembly is a new decision-making infrastructure that gives ordinary people a seat at the global governance table. I was one of the 20 Breakout facilitators selected from all over the world, joining Breakout & Plenary Sessions (totalled 70hrs) to facilitate five Assembly Members from different countries around a four month period discussion on the core question: “How can humanity address the climate and ecological crisis in a fair and effective way?”
Research[edit | edit source]
Research Interests[edit | edit source]
Impact assessment of energy projects; Energy justice; Energy policy;
Climate and carbon emission; Company's SDG practices;
Wildlife conservation; Human-wildlife conflicts; Evaluation on the effectiveness of NGO/charity initiatives.
Current Projects[edit | edit source]
Constructing scale, eroding responsibility: the politics of scoping in Canadian energy project reviews
Decisions about whether new gas wells, pipelines, etc. are approved have major implications for climate change, biodiversity, and Indigenous rights. Despite recent changes to impact assessment law in Canada, there is still no requirement to assess the cumulative impacts of multiple projects. Reviewing each project individually constrains the scope of issues that can be considered. At times proponents submit separate applications for projects that are clearly related (e.g. a pipeline and gas processing facility), or even for different parts of the same project (e.g. two sections of the same pipeline). ‘Slicing’ projects into smaller pieces this way narrows the issues and impacts that regulatory bodies consider, while making it more onerous for affected communities to participate in multiple review processes rather than one. Consequently, broader issues such as climate change and successive encroachment on Indigenous rights are likely to be excluded. We argue that creatively defining boundaries around infrastructure projects is an example of strategically constructing scale to facilitate resource extraction.
Analyzing applications to Canadian federal and provincial review bodies over the past 20 years, we ask: how widely have proponents of oil and gas projects, hydroelectric dams, etc. used two strategies: 1) ‘slicing’ complex projects into multiple parts and filing separate applications for each, or 2) ‘splicing’ multiple actions together into a single application – with what outcomes for regulatory approval?