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DESCRIPTION:Bilingual talk by Professor Catherine Potvin\, McGill Departmen
 t of Biology. All are welcome to attend this unique public lecture\, which
  is presented as part of the international conference Genomes to/aux Biome
 s Montreal 2014.   Professor Potvin specializes in tropical forest ecology
  and conservation. Tropical forests play a crucial role in the global carb
 on cycle and for species conservation. Besides that they are amazingly bea
 utiful and express the full imagination of nature! For 20 years Dr. Potvin
  has been collaborating with and learning land use and reforestation pract
 ice from Panama’s indigenous people. This talk focusses on her laboratory’
 s work as a centre for “Science for empowerment”. This approach to science
  builds on the notion of empowerment of all actors – from local communitie
 s to indigenous peoples and national governments. It follow very closely b
 oth the negotiations and the implementation of the UN Framework Convention
  on Climate Change.
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LOCATION:CA\, Centre Mont-Royal\, 1000 Sherbrooke Street West (corner Mansf
 ield)\, Montreal\, Quebec
SUMMARY:Halting deforestation: One piece of the climate mitigation puzzle
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/science/20140526-talk-potvin-deforestation-genome
 s-to-biomes
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