1.3 UN75: Climate Crisis - A Race We Can Win TOGETHER with Josipa Petrunic

The Global Health Collective - With a Local Edge

This episode will leave you feeling more confident, and motivated than ever before. Yes, it will change your mind, the way you frame your thoughts, and the position you chose to play in the global landscape.

Host Shania Bhopa discusses the ways young people can understand the world's most pressing issues including the climate crisis with Dr. Josipa Petrunic.

Discussing politics, economics, the gender gap, education, and female empowerment - this episode has us left SPEECHLESS.

Dr. Josipa Petrunic, President & CEO of the Canadian Urban Transit Research & Innovation Consortium. She is leading the formulation of several national transportation technology trials related to zero-emissions transportation. In 2018, she was named as one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40 by Bloomberg News and Canada's Top Clean 50. In 2019, she was named Aspioneer Top 10 Influential Women Leaders.

This podcast episode is apart of McMaster's UN75 dialogue series - in celebration of the UN turning 75 this year institutions like McMaster are hosting a global interactive "listening tour". The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will share feedback gathered through the initiative at the UN General Assembly which will then inform strategies for the next 25 years.