Émilie is a graduate researcher, teaching assistant, and research assistant at UBCO, where she is studying community-based climate adaptation. Her thesis explores forest-based carbon offsetting in community forestry and focuses on the Cheakamus Community Forest’s (CCF) “conservation economy” model. Her climate justice theoretical approach bridges the disciplines of political ecology, critical human geography and environmental anthropology to better understand the CCF’s place-based climate adaptation strategies and map underlying political and ecological organizations of power. This project is led under the supervision of Dr. Susan Frohlick, and primarily funded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec – nature et technologies and the British Columbia Graduate Scholarship.