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SUMMARY:September 23-30 Recording - 2021 Annual Policy Conference - Adaptation: Building Resilience in the Global Climate Emergency
DESCRIPTION:Download Outline and Program pdf\n\n\n\nSpeakers and Committee Bio pdf\n\n\n\n\n \n \nOutline\n\n\n\nIt is abundantly clear that the climate is changing with profound impacts on our environment\, economy\, society and our security. The main cause is human activity\, primarily as a result of two centuries of greenhouse gas emissions from the production and consumption of fossil fuels. It will take a generation or more to transition fully to a non-fossil fuel world. As a result\, future impacts are inevitable and will continue until\, and even after\, the world achieves net-zero emissions and re-balances the carbon cycle. The inescapable conclusion is that adaptation\, primarily through enhanced resilience\, is imperative if we and the environment on which we depend are to survive. \n\n\n\n The aim of this year’s Policy Conference is to help enhance the national and global dialogue on the role of adaptation in addressing the threats of climate change. The conference will examine policies that will not only help to shield us from the impacts of climate change but provide ancillary benefits that will make our lives\, our communities\, our economies and our environment more sustainable. The conference will build on previous studies such as the Council of Canadian Academies’ Experts Panel on Climate Change Risks and Adaptation Potential\, and other initiatives such as the Flagship Report of the Global Commission on Adaptation. \n\n\n\n The conference will examine a range of potential climate change impacts in Canada\, for example on food and agriculture\, community infrastructure\, and health. The range is large and we will be forced to make choices. Fortunately\, there is a rich base of research which we will distill for the conference. We plan to have representation from municipal\, provincial and federal governments as well as subject experts. We will choose three or four sectors and explore\, through a series of “what if” scenarios\, potential adaptation responses to mitigate the climate change impacts. For each set of responses we will explore the possible conflicts and ancillary benefits for greenhouse gas reductions. \n\n\n\n The most devastating impacts of climate change\, in terms of lives lost and property damage\, will be inflicted on developing countries. Since developing countries are low emitters of greenhouse gases\, they are the least responsible for climate change\, yet bear its worst consequences. There is thus a moral obligation on the rich countries to support their adaptation efforts. In addition to a focus on Canada\, the conference will explore a range of impacts of extreme weather on these developing countries as well as actions and resources required to build their resilience. \n\n\n\n Participants will help generate a report with clear conclusions and recommendations to be forwarded to political leaders and to be shared widely as a contribution to public discourse of this critical issue. The Group of 78 will continue to advocate to governments on these recommendations in the years ahead. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPROGRAM\n\n\n\nAll times are EDT\, UTC -4 \n\n\n\nThursday\, Sept. 23\, 10:00 a.m. OPENING\n\n\n\nAcknowledgement of the Land/Prayer with Elder Verna McGregor\, Algonquin Nation. \n\n\n\nWelcome to the Conference – Why Adaptation: Roy Culpeper\, Chair\, Group of 78. \n\n\n\n40th Anniversary of the Original Statement that launched the Group of 78 \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThursday\, Sept. 23\, 10:30 a.m. Keynote Address\, Jayati Ghosh: Global Adaptation Challenges\n\n\n\nReforms to the global economic architecture are urgently needed to mobilize the necessary resources for Adaptation in the developing world. \n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Jayati Ghosh\, Development Economist\, University of Massachusetts at Amherst\, USA. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFriday\, Sept. 24\, 1:00 p.m. PANEL ON INFRASTRUCTURE ADAPTATION\n\n\n\nRegardless of climate change\, governments and businesses will continue to spend significant amounts of money building new and maintaining existing physical infrastructure in order to provide services and create products. What are the ways in which this infrastructure can also shield Canadians from the now inevitable impacts of climate change? \n\n\n\nModerator:  John Stone\, former member IPCC. \n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Paul Kovacs\, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction/University of Western Ontario. \n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Adam Fenech\, Climate Change & Adaptation\, University of Prince Edward Island. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMonday\, Sept. 27\, 1:00 p.m. PANEL ON FOOD ADAPTATION\n\n\n\nHow do we redesign current food systems\, in Canada and globally\, to ensure equitable production and distribution of healthy food while preserving and restoring ecosystems? \n\n\n\nModerator: Bruce Currie-Alder\, Canada’s International Development Research Centre\, Program leader climate resilience. \n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Sophia Murphy\, Executive Director\, Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy. \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Darrin Qualman\, National Farmers Union/Author. \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Sandra Yeboah & Nii Adjei Sowah\, University of Ghana. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTuesday\, Sept. 28\, 1:00 p.m. PANEL ON HEALTH ADAPTATION\n\n\n\nWith an increase in disease\, heat deaths\, mental stress and physical risk because of climate change\, what needs to change with health policies and systems to build resilience to meet these challenges?  \n\n\n\nModerator: Christopher Huggins\, Associate Professor\, International Development and Global Studies. \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Janet Hatcher-Roberts\, University of Ottawa; Former Executive Director\, Canadian Society for International Health. \n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Nicholas Robinson\, Environment Prof. Emeritus\, Pace University\, NYC; Former Legal Advisor\, International Union for the Conservation of Nature. \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Didacus Namanya\, Geographer\, Ministry of Health\, Uganda. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nWednesday\, Sept. 29\, 12:00 p.m. KEYNOTE Address\, Bob Rae: Why Climate Adaptation is Such a Critical Issue\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Bob Rae\, Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWednesday\, Sept. 29\, 1:00 p.m. Communities Fit for the Future:  Municipal Leadership\, Doughnut Economics and adapting to a changing Climate.\n\n\n\nA presentation on how municipalities can take leadership in meeting the challenges of the 21st century through adopting frameworks that track environmental and social outcomes and focus on action to tackle the greatest challenge of our time\, climate change. \n\n\n\nModerator:  Susan Tanner\, VP Group of 78; Secretary\, OREC; Chair Conference Organizing Committee. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Ben Geselbracht\, Councillor\, City of Nanaimo. \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Tyler Brown\, Councillor\, City of Nanaimo. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThursday\, Sept. 30\, 10:00 a.m. KEYNOTE Address\, Rachel Bezner Kerr : Adaptation\, food security and the challenge of financing Adaptation in Africa\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Rachel Bezner Kerr\, Professor of Global Development\, Cornell University. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThursday\, Sept. 30\, 1:00 p.m. FINANCE AND SUSTAINABLE CLIMATE ADAPTATION.\n\n\n\nFinancing for adaptation to global warming are grossly inadequate; developments in multilateral finance\, food and agriculture are reshaping the multiple challenges involved. \n\n\n\nModerator: Sara Alvarado\, Executive Director\, Institute for Sustainable Finance (ISF) \n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Jomo Sundaram\, Jomo K. Sundaram\, Senior Adviser at the Khazanah Research Institute\, Malaysia. Multilateral finance\, food systems\, and sustainable climate Adaptation. \n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Blair Feltmate\, INTACT Centre on Climate Adaptation\, University of Waterloo\, Adaptation policy and practice in Canada. \n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Art Hunter\, Developer of a major project demonstrating how an Ottawa home has adapted to not relying on fossil fuels or grid power by using solar power and geothermal energy using private financing. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTuesday\, Oct. 5\, 1:00 p.m. Wrap Up WEBINAR: CONCLUSIONS & RECOMMENDATIONS\n\n\n\nA final session for all full conference participants to comment on a draft set of conclusions and recommendations emerging from the conference presentations and discussions\, prepared by the conference planning committee. \n\n\n\n \n\n\nRegister on Eventbrite\n\n\nSpeaker Bios in Order of Appearance & Conference Committee\n\n\n\nThursday\, Sept. 23\, 10:00 a.m. OPENING\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nSusan Tanner\, Vice-Chair Group of 78; Secretary\, OREC; Chair Conference Organizing Committee \n\n\n\n\n \nSusan Tanner\, L.L.B.\, M.E.S.\, L.L.M While holding senior positions in both Federal and Ontario governments Susan has maintained an active role in the non-profit community. In 1982\, Susan was the founding chairperson of LEAF (Legal Education and Action Fund) to promote the rights of women under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In 1995\, Friends of the Earth (FoE) Canada accepted a UN Environmental Prize for work on the Montreal Protocol done under her leadership. Susan continues to be actively involved with organizations such as Ottawa Renewable Energy Coop\, Women for Nature (Nature Canada) and Group of 78. \n\n\n\n\n \nGovernment positions included: Senior Advisor to the Deputy Minister of Justice on Gender Equality and Diversity; Forum Lead\, WUF Habitat Jam; Member of the Ontario Environmental Assessment Board; Vice Chair\, Social Assessment Review Board; and mediator for the Ontario Grievance Settlement Board. \n\n\n\n\n \nShe holds a Masters of Environmental Studies and a Masters of Law. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRoy Culpeper\, Chair\, Group of 78 \n\n\n\nRoy Culpeper is an Honorary Senior Fellow of the University of Ottawa’s School of International Development and Global Studies\, Adjunct Professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs\, Carleton University\, and a Fellow of the Broadbent Institute. He is Chair of the Group of 78\, and founding Chair of the Coalition for Equitable Land Acquisitions and Development in Africa (CELADA). From January until May 2011 he was Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington\, D.C. Previously he was President and Chief Executive Officer of The North-South Institute\, Ottawa. Earlier in his career he was an official at the World Bank in Washington\, the federal Departments of Finance and External Affairs in Ottawa\, and the Planning Secretariat of the Government of Manitoba in Winnipeg. \n\n\n\nRoy Culpeper obtained his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Toronto. He has published widely on the issues of international development\, finance and global governance. \n\n\n\nThursday\, Sept. 23\, 10:30 a.m. Keynote Address\, Jayati Ghosh: Global Adaptation Challenges\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJayati Ghosh\, Development Economist\, University of Massachusetts at Amherst\, USA \n\n\n\nHer research interests include globalisation\, international trade and finance\, employment patterns\, macroeconomic policy\, gender issues\, poverty and inequality. She has authored and/or edited a dozen books and around 200 scholarly articles. Recent books include Demonetisation Decoded: A critique of India’s monetary experiment and India and the International Economy\, (Oxford University Press 2015). She has received several national and international prizes\, including the M. Adisheshaiah Award for distinguished contributions to the social sciences in India in 2015\, and the International Labour Organisation’s Decent Work Research Prize for 2010. She has advised governments in India and other countries. She was the Chairperson of the Andhra Pradesh Commission on Farmers’ Welfare in 2004\, and Member of the National Knowledge Commission reporting to the Prime Minister of India (2005-09). She is the Executive Secretary of International Development Economics Associates (www.networkideas.org)\, an international network of heterodox development economists. She has consulted for several international organisations including ILO\, UNDP\, UNCTAD\, UN-DESA\, UNRISD and UN Women and is member of several international commissions. She writes regularly for popular media like newspapers\, journals and blogs. \n\n\n\nFriday\, Sept. 24\, 1:00 p.m.          Panel on Infrastructure Adaptation\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Stone\, Past IPCC Vice-Chair \n\n\n\nJohn Stone is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University\, Canada. He received a Ph.D. in Chemical Spectroscopy (1969) from the University of Reading\, UK. \n\n\n\nHis experiences since retiring from the Canadian Public Service in 2005 include: Visiting Fellow\, International Development Research Council. He was a Member of the Bureau of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and most recently a Lead Author for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. He is Board member of the Pembina Institute. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaul Kovacs\, executive director\, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction; University of Western Ontario \n\n\n\nPaul Kovacs is founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction at Western University. ICLR has been designated by the International Council for Science as an international centre of excellence for integrated research on disaster risk. \n\n\n\nFor more than 20 years Paul was a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change\, the world’s leading forum for the study of climate issues. The Panel won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change”. He is Canada’s leading authority on insurance and climate extremes\, and has been a contributing author to numerous international and Canadian reports on reducing the risk of loss from earthquakes\, flood and severe wind to achieve disaster resilience. \n\n\n\nPaul was appointed Chair of Ontario’s Advisory Panel on Climate Change in 2019. He was elected Chair of the Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes in 2021. For more than thirty-five years Paul has been a popular commentator on disaster science and economic policy. He has written more than 200 publications and is a passionate champion for insurance\, disaster resilience and adaptation to climate extremes. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdam Fenech\, Climate Change & Adaptation\, University of Prince Edward Island \n\n\n\nDr. Fenech has worked extensively in the area of climate change since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change First Assessment Report in 1988. He has edited 8 books on climate change\, most recently on Global Climate Change\, Biodiversity and Sustainability in the Middle East.  Dr. Fenech has worked for Harvard University researching the history of the science/policy interfaces of climate change. He has represented Canada at international climate negotiating sessions; written climate policy speeches for Canadian Environment Ministers; and authored Canadian reports on climate change to the United Nations. Dr. Fenech has taught at the University of Toronto as well as the Smithsonian Institution for over 20 years\, and lectures regularly at universities across Canada and around the world. Dr. Fenech shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He is presently the Associate Dean of the School of Climate Change and Adaptation at the University of Prince Edward Island. He is also the Director of the University of Prince Edward Island’s Climate Research Lab that conducts research on the vulnerability\, impacts and adaptation to climate change\, where his virtual reality depiction of sea level rise has won international awards including one from MIT for communicating coastal science. He maintains the largest fleet of drones at a Canadian university including the largest drone in the country with a four-metre wingspan. \n\n\n\nMonday\, Sept. 27\, 1:00 p.m.      Panel on Food Adaptation\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBruce Currie-Alder\, Canada’s International Development Research Centre\, Program leader climate resilience \n\n\n\nBruce Currie-Alder leads on climate resilience at Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) investing in evidence that contributes to adaptation across Africa\, Asia\, and Latin America. IDRC partners with the UK Government to enable poor and marginalized communities in the global South to be more resilient to climate change in the near and longer term\, and with the Government of the Netherlands to support the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN). Bruce’s expertise spans environmental science and international development\, and he holds a PhD in public policy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSophia Murphy\, Executive Director\, Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy \n\n\n\nSophia Murphy is the executive director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP). Sophia is a food systems and international economy expert with 30 years of professional experience\, including as a board chair\, program director\, policy analyst and published writer. A policy expert and advocate who has focused on resilient food systems\, agriculture and international trade\, Sophia has worked primarily with civil society organizations\, as well as with government\, intergovernmental organization and universities. \n\n\n\nSophia originally came to IATP in 1997 as a senior associate to work on trade. She directed IATP’s trade and global governance program from 2000 to 2006\, and later served as a senior advisor until 2018. She joined IATP from Geneva\, where she had worked for two years with the United Nations Nongovernmental Liaison Service. For over a decade\, she operated a successful independent consultancy business. Most recently\, she served as research director and advisor on agriculture\, trade and investment within the Economic Law and Policy Program at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). She served two consecutive terms as a member of the steering committee of the High-Level Panel of Experts to the United Nations Committee on World Food Security. \n\n\n\nSophia has a BA in Politics\, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University and a MSc from the London School of Economics in Social Policy and Planning in Developing Countries. She is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Resources\, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDarrin Qualman\, National Farmers Union/Author \n\n\n\nDarrin Qualman is Director of Climate Crisis Policy and Action for Canada’s National Farmers Union.  He is the author of the 2019 report Tackling the Farm Crisis and the Climate Crisis\, the 2019 book Civilization Critical: Energy\, Food\, Nature\, and the Future\, and the 2021 report Imagine If: A Vision of a Near-Zero-Emission Farm and Food System for Canada.  His research\, writing\, and educational pursuits over the past 20 years have all aimed at creating a big-picture\, long-term view of how humans turn nature\, energy sources\, and technologies into cities\, food supplies\, manufacturing systems\, and cultures.  He has academic degrees in history\, biology\, and political studies.  He farmed for many years in Saskatchewan\, raising grains\, oilseeds\, pulse crops\, and specialty crops.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSandra Yeboah\, University of Ghana \n\n\n\nSandra Obiri-Yeboah is a final year PhD candidate at the Centre for Migration studies at the University of Ghana. She is currently working on her PhD theses in the area of climate change impact\, psychological wellbeing and migration with special emphasis in Northern Ghana. She is currently a graduate assistant at Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy at the University of Ghana. She is a Queen Elizabeth Scholar under climate change and societal transformation. She also participates in seminars and conferences which has enhanced her scope and knowledge base in gender and societal discourse. She holds a degree in M.A. Population Studies from University of Ghana. After her Master’s\, she joined the National Population Council\, Ghana\, working in the Research\, Monitoring and Evaluation Unit. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNii Adjei Sowah\, University of Ghana \n\n\n\nAlexander Nii Adjei Sowah holds a PhD from the Institute for Statistical Social and Economic Research (ISSER)\, University of Ghana and an MPhil degree in Sociology. His PhD examined the influence of inheritance and land tenure arrangements on adaptation to climate variability impacts by smallholder farmers in the Savanna and Transition zones of Ghana. He focuses his research on adaptation to social and environmental changes through the perspectives of Gender and Development\, Social Exclusion\, Adaptation to Social Systems and Education. These interests have been shaped and fostered by his desire to explore as well as understand how social systems\, institutions and other forms of social arrangements influence gender relations and their implication on access to and control of resources. His interest in climate adaptions was triggered by his hands-on practical work experience working on the USAID-ADVANCE program in the Upper East Region as a Business facilitator. He is a recipient of a DAAD doctorial fellowship award\, an experiential learning grant on the Sustainable Climate Adaptation component of the Building Stronger Universities (BSU II) program funded by DANIDA and a Doctoral Grant from the University of Ghana Pan-African Doctoral Academy. He is currently a Queen Elizabeth Scholar on the Societal Transformation and Climate Change component. \n\n\n\nTuesday\, Sept. 28\, 1:00 p.m.      Panel on Health Adaptation\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristopher Huggins\, Associate Professor\, International Development and Global Studies \n\n\n\nChris Huggins is an associate professor in the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa\, Canada. His research focuses on agricultural development\, rural livelihoods\, and natural resource management in Africa. He has consulted for major United Nations agencies and international non-governmental organizations\, worked with Human Rights Watch\, and was for several years a Research Fellow at the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS)\, Nairobi. He has researched climate adaptation in Rwanda\, as an extension of research published in his book\, Agricultural Reform in Rwanda: Authoritarianism\, Markets\, and Zones of Governance\, with Zed Books in October 2017. His interest in climate change adaptation and health lies in the nexus between food systems and public health\, which is a key component of his teaching on food security and international development. He has also developed an online course (in collaboration with a colleague at Carleton University)\, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Food Systems\, Environment\, and Public Health. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJanet Hatcher-Roberts\, University of Ottawa; Former Executive Director\, Canadian Society for International Health \n\n\n\nJanet Hatcher Roberts has over 30 years experience in bridging communities\, evidence and policy both nationally and internationally.  Currently\, Janet is the Co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Knowledge Translation\, Technology Assessment for Health Equity at Bruyere Research Institute\, University of Ottawa. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine\, School of Epidemiology and Public Health\, at the University of Ottawa. Through her work at the WHOCC and the university she teaches courses on health systems and global governance and carries out research focussing on equity\, health systems and global health. \n\n\n\nFrom 1998-2013\, she was the Executive Director of the Canadian Society for International Health where she oversaw the design and implementation of global health systems strengthening projects in Africa\, Asia\, Latin and Central America and Eastern Europe funded by CIDA\, IDRC\, World Bank\, WHO and PAHO. She served as the technical representative for PAHO in Canada from 1998-2002. She spent 2007-2008 in Geneva where she was Director of the Migration Health Department with the International Organization for Migration\, now UN Migration. \n\n\n\nIn her volunteer time\, Janet was the Chair of the Board for Action Canada for Population Development and was a Board member and Past Treasurer of the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research. She was a Board member of the US-based Council of Graduate Foreign Nurses (CGFNS)from 2007- 2016. From 2009-2019\, she was appointed by an Order in Council as Board member to Public Heath Ontario (PHO) where she also sat on the Strategic Planning Committee and Governance Committee. From 2018 to 2020\, she has served as an ex-officio member and now board member of the Ottawa Centre Liberal EDA. She also served for four years on the National Board of Make Poverty History. Since January 2021 she has served as a member of the Advisory Committee for the newly formed Pegasus Institute and is a member of the newly formed Transition committee for the new Canadian Association for Global Health\, an amalgamation of the Canadian Society for International Health and the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNicholas Robinson\, Environment Prof. Emeritus\, Pace University\, NYC; Former Legal Advisor\, International Union for the Conservation of Nature \n\n\n\nNicholas A. Robinson’s endeavors to establish and advance environmental law began in the 1960s. He participated in the 1972 United Nations Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment\, where is joined the Environmental Law Commission of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).  He specializes in international and comparative environmental law. Through IUCN\, he participated in the drafting of the 1982 UN World Charter for Nature (UN General Assembly Resolution 37/7) and the drafts of the 1992 UN Convention on Biological Diversity. He edited the traveaux preparatoires for the UN Conference on Environment & Development\, the “Earth Summit” (Agenda 21 & The UNCED Proceedings\, 6 volumes). He established the environmental legal education program for the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University in New York\, and led the creation of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law\, with 210 university law school members world-wide. He taught the international and comparative environmental law courses for Yale University for two decades\, and at University College London  and the National University of Singapore. He has lectured in universities throughout Brazil\, China\, Canada\, Kenya\, Egypt\, The Gulf\, Russia and Europe and the USA. IUCN twice elected him to chair its Commission on Environmental Law and he served for 8 years as IUCN Legal Advisor. AT IUCN’s World Conservation Congress in Marseille\, 3-11 September 2021\, he participated in establishing IUCN’s first policies on zoonosis and measures needed to cope with further emerging infectious diseases.  He is currently the Executive Governor of the International Council for Environmental Law (Spain)\, serves on the Board of the Environmental Law Institute (Washington\, DC) and is the Gilbert & Sarah Kerlin Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law\, and University Professor for the Environment at Pace University. He is a graduate of Brown University (1967) and Columbia University School of Law (1970).  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDidacus Bambaiha Namanya\, Geographer\, Ministry of Health\, Uganda \n\n\n\nMr. Namanya is a skilled senior health geographer\, with over 20 years experience working at the Ministry of Health Uganda. In this role he is the focal person for climate change and human health\, in charge of public health mapping and geospatial analysis. With this role he has spearheaded articulation of climate change adaptation in national health policy and strategies and intersectoral collaboration with health-related ministries and agencies. \n\n\n\nHe holds an MPH from Clarke International University\, a BA Geography from Makerere University Kampala\, Uganda\, and a Post Graduate    Diploma in Education (MuK). He also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Climate Change Adaptation from Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) in Sweden. He is currently pursuing a PhD in public health at Uganda Martyrs University. \n\n\n\nOver the years Mr. Namanya has been involved in several health and climate related research projects at national and international levels e.g. Indigenous Health Adaptation to Climate Change (IHACC) supported by IDRC\, HEALTHY FUTURES supported by European Union and the East Africa Vulnerability\, Impacts\, and Adaptation assessment (VIA) undertaken by the East African Community (EAC)\, with support from the USAID/Kenya and East Africa Planning for Resilience in East Africa through Policy\, Adaptation\, Research\, and Economic Development (PREPARED) Project. These have resulted in numerous publications. \n\n\n\n Mr. Namanya has also presented lectures related to climate change and health at Makerere University\, Uganda\, McGill University and University of Ottawa in Canada and University of Angers in France among others. \n\n\n\nWednesday\, Sept. 29\, 12:00 pm.   Keynote Address\, Bob Rae: Canada’s Role in the Global Context\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBob Rae\, Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations \n\n\n\nBob Rae is the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations in New York. \n\n\n\nMr. Rae served as Premier of Ontario from 1990-1995\, and interim Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 2011-2013. He was elected to federal and provincial parliaments 11 times between 1978 and 2013. \n\n\n\nMr. Rae received his Honours B.A. in Modern History from the University of Toronto\, an M.Phil. in Politics as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University\, and graduated from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 1977. He was named a Queen’s Counsel in 1984. \n\n\n\nMr. Rae’s return to Parliament for the constituency of Toronto Centre in 2008 led to his appointment as Foreign Affairs spokesman for his party\, and to his election as interim Leader in 2011. \n\n\n\nMr. Rae is also a Senior Fellow at Massey College\, and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. He served as the Chief Negotiator for the 9 First Nations that are members of the Mattawa Tribal Council in Northern Ontario between 2013 and 2018. \n\n\n\nIn October 2017\, Mr. Rae was appointed as Canada’s Special Envoy to Myanmar. In this role\, he engaged in diplomatic efforts to address the crisis in the country’s Rakhine State and wrote the report “Tell Them We’re Human” in 2018. In March 2020\, he was named by Prime Minister Trudeau to be Canada’s Special Envoy on Humanitarian and Refugee Issues. This led to his report “A Global Pandemic Requires a Global Response”\, which was made public shortly before his appointment as Ambassador to the UN. \n\n\n\nBob Rae is a Privy Councillor\, a Companion of the Order of Canada\, a member of the Order of Ontario\, and has numerous awards and honorary degrees from institutions in Canada and around the world. \n\n\n\nWednesday\, Sept. 29\, 1:00 p.m.           Communities Fit for the Future:  Municipal Leadership\, Doughnut Economics and adapting to a changing Climate.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBen Geselbracht\, Councillor\, City of Nanaimo \n\n\n\nBen Geselbracht is a Nanaimo city councillor and Regional District director.  He is currently the 2nd Vice President of the Association of Vancouver Island Coastal Communities.   Ben is passionate about developing the green circular economy of the future.  He worked hard in getting the Nanaimo region to adopt an ambitious target of diverting 90% of its waste from landfill by 2030 and has since been stewarding implementation of the plan to achieve this as chair of the Nanaimo Regional Solid Waste committee.   Mobilizing local government to be more effective in supporting a resilient economy that is environmentally sustainable and meets the needs of all community members is a central focus of his work.  Ben believes strongly that we must address head on the challenge of climate change and that in order to do this successfully issues of social inequity must also be addressed.”   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTyler Brown\, Councillor\, City of Nanaimo \n\n\n\nChair of the Board of Directors at the Regional District of Nanaimo. \n\n\n\nHe holds a M.Sc. in Urban Policy and Practice at University of Glasgow (2011) and Certificate\, Principles and Practice of New Urbanism (2014)\, \n\n\n\nThursday\, Sept. 30\, 10:00 a.m. KEYNOTE Address: Adaptation\, food security and the challenge of financing Adaptation in Africa\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRachel Bezner Kerr\, Professor of Global Development at Cornell University \n\n\n\nRachel Bezner Kerr is a Professor in Global Development at Cornell University. She does participatory research in Africa on agroecology\, gender\, climate change adaptation\, food and nutrition security. She has published over 70 scientific articles\, in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\, and Agriculture\, Ecosystems and Environment. She is a Coordinating Lead Author for Chapter 5 (the ‘food chapter’) for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change upcoming report on climate change impacts\, vulnerabilities and adaptation. In 2019 she was co-author of a report on agroecology for the United Nations Committee for World Food Security. Her long-term participatory research is in collaboration with a farmer-led organization in Malawi\, the Soils\, Food and Healthy Communities organization. Rachel was born in Kitchener\, Ontario\, Canada and maintains close ties with Canadian family and colleagues. \n\n\n\nThursday\, Sept. 30\, 1:00 p.m.    FINANCE AND SUSTAINABLE CLIMATE ADAPTATION.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSara Alvarado\, Executive Director\, Institute for Sustainable Finance (ISF) \n\n\n\nSara Alvarado is Executive Director\, Institute for Sustainable Finance\, which fuses academia\, private sector and government to shape Canada’s sustainable finance. She is former Head of Risk\, Canada Infrastructure Bank\, where she built the inaugural ERM function. Prior to the CIB\, she was Senior Officer\, Infrastructure New Products & Special Transactions at the European Investment Bank (EIB) based in Luxembourg\, focusing on catalysing private sector investments into green infrastructure in policy priority sectors with support from the EU. Before moving to the EU\, Sara spent combined 15 years in Private Placements and Infrastructure as Managing Director at Manulife and Director at Sun Life\, plus 10 years at Scotia Capital. \n\n\n\nSara is current Co-Chair at the World Economic Forum’s Infrastructure 4.0 Initiative. She is Board Member at Cambridge Memorial Hospital and past Board Member at CFA Society Toronto. She is a CFA charterholder and an MBA from Edinburgh Business School. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJomo Sundaram\, Economist; Senior Adviser\, Khazanah Research Institute\, Malaysia \n\n\n\nSenior Adviser at the Khazanah Research Institute. He was a member of the Economic Action Council\, chaired by the seventh Malaysian Prime Minister (2018-20)\, and the 5-member Council of Eminent Persons appointed by him\, Professor at the University of Malaya (1986-2004)\, Founder-Chair of International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs\, www.networkideas.org) \, UN Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development (2005-2012)\, Research Coordinator for the G24 Intergovernmental Group on International Monetary Affairs and Development (2006-2012)\, and Assistant Director General for Economic and Social Development\, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (2012-2015). He received the 2007 Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBlair Feltmate\, INTACT Centre on Climate Adaptation\, University of Waterloo \n\n\n\nDr. Blair Feltmate: Blair is the Head of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation\, University of Waterloo. Previous positions he has held include Vice President\, Sustainable Development\, Bank of Montreal; Director\, Sustainable Development\, Ontario Power Generation; Partner\, Sustainable Investment Group/YMG Capital Management.  Blair has written textbooks on Sustainable Banking and Aquatic Ecology. \n\n\n\nHe is on the Advisory Table\, National Adaptation Strategy\, Canada.  He is Sustainable Finance Council member\, Global Risk Institute\, and he is a member of Climate Proof Canada (Insurance Bureau of Canada).  Blair is Expert Member\, International ISO Strategic Advisory Group\, ESG.  He is Chair\, Adaptation Council\, Canadian Institute for Climate Choices (Environment and Climate Change Canada). He is on the Climate Advisory Board\, Minister of Environment (Ontario). He was Chair\, Federal Government of Canada Expert Panel on Climate Adaptation. \n\n\n\nBlair was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow\, University of Waterloo.  He holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Ecology (University of Toronto)\, Master’s in Arts (Wilfrid Laurier University)\, Master’s in Zoology (University of Toronto)\, and Hon. Bachelor’s Biology (University of Toronto).  He is generally interviewed by the media 100 times per year on climate change/ESG related issues. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArt Hunter\, \n\n\n\nDeveloper of a major project demonstrating how an Ottawa home has adapted to not relying on fossil fuels or grid power by using solar power and geothermal energy using private financing\, Dr. Art Hunter is a graduate from the Royal Military College (Mechanical)\, Imperial College (U of London – Aeronautical)\, and the National Defence College (XXXVIII). He was a member of Telesat Canada’s spacecraft design team for Anik A\, Deputy Manager mechanical systems for the Communications Technology Satellite (Hermes) and Project Manager for the Canadarm project at the National Research Council of Canada. Later\, as a Project Manager for the Industrial Development Office\, he did the design\, development\, test and evaluation of the electronics network CA*Net (now part of the Internet).  For over 30 years he has worked with about 100 Canadian companies as an Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) Senior Project Manager and as President of Drex Engineering Consultants.  \n\n\n\nHe wrote an investing book the “Taxation Investment Engine”\, has developed energy efficient home construction techniques\, and has undertaken the financing and development of the Fossil Energy Freedom Project.  Its Mission Statement is “Retrofit an Ottawa home to live a near autonomous lifestyle”.   \n\n\n\nAs a member of the Board of Directors\, he was awarded the first Canadian Association for the Club of Rome “Exceptional Service Award” on 30 September 2020. \n\n\n\n2021 Conference Committee \n\n\n\nSusan Tanner\, Chair (See bio above); Roy Culpeper\, (See bio above); John Stone\, (See bio above) \n\n\n\nAdam Fenech\, (See bio above) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRichard Harmston \n\n\n\nRichard has worked in international development for more than 40 years\, nearly all of it in civil society organizations. He directed the International Student Movement for the United Nations (Geneva)\, the Canadian Council for International Cooperation\, and South Asia Partnership Canada (the latter two in Ottawa). He has served on numerous boards of directors of other international and Canadian organizations\, including as a founding director of the North South Institute\, the Group of 78\, and UNIFEM Canada. The scope of this service has included emphasis on community development\, international relations\, peace and security\, gender equality\, South Asian issues\, and strengthening of civil society. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPeter Meincke \n\n\n\nPeter Meincke\, B.A.Sc. (Queen’s)\, Ph.D. (physics UofT)\, D.Sc. (RMC). Vice Provost UofT (1972-76)\, President UPEI (1978-1985). He taught and did research at RMC\, Bell Labs\, UofT and UPEI. During the 70’s\, he became deeply concerned about the role of technology and developed courses on “Energy\, Environment and the Economy” and” Technologies for Sustainable Development”. He continues to write about how small islands can show how to use existing technologies to adapt to climate change and develop sustainably. He has served on many boards and councils and belongs to many NGO’s such as Canadian Pugwash\, Science for Peace\, CACOR. He was a founding member of the Group of 78. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGerald J Schmitz \n\n\n\nGerald Schmitz holds a doctorate in political science from Carleton University and has a deep background in international issues. He was a policy analyst with the Parliamentary Information and Research Service from 1981-2011\, including as principal analyst for international affairs and as research director for the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade/Development from 1994 to 2008. In 1991-93 he was a program director at the North-South Institute\, and in 2003 a special advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The author of numerous publications\, in 2013 he was named an “alumnus of influence” by the University of Saskatchewan’s College of Arts and Sciences. Currently a G78 Board member\, he is also president of One World Arts which annually puts on the One World Film Festival.
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SUMMARY:Panel 5: Conclusions and Recommendations
DESCRIPTION: Download Event Pdf \nWednesday\, February 3\, 2021\, from 3:00 – 4:30 pm EST\n  \nWe are delighted to announce the details of our grand finale webinar in the Group of 78 six-session series of Webinars on the Future of UN Peacekeeping in the Transition to a More Peaceful World: Why UN peace operations are critical and need to be expanded. \n  \nThe focus\, as promised\, will be on key recommendations for action by governments – especially our own\, by parliamentarians and by civil society. We promise a lively\, thought provoking\, action-oriented discussion and question time! \n  \nThe five previous webinars in this series are all available on YouTube  \n  \nPanellists:\n\n Jane Boulden\, Professor\, Dept of Political Science\, Royal Military College of Canada\, with a particular focus on UN efforts to manage conflict (Speaking from Kingston\, Ontario)\n Walter Dorn\, RMC and Canadian Forces College professor\, author\, and a leading Canadian expert on UN peacekeeping including new technologies (Speaking from Toronto)\n Howard Peter Langille\, Author and lead expert on UN Emergency Peace Service and “sustainable common security”. (Speaking from Ottawa)\n\n  \nModerator:\n\nPeggy Mason\, President of Rideau Institute\, former Amb for Disarmament to the UN\, former peacekeeping trainer (1995-2014)\, (Speaking from Ottawa)\n\n  \nTicket options:\n\n$10.00 for general admission (register through Eventbrite)\nFull pass holders do not need to register; you have been automatically registered.\nFree General Admission\n\nOnline Registration \n  \nThank you to our co-sponsors!\n \n 
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SUMMARY:2019 G78 Annual Policy Conference: Global Markets\, Inequality and the Future of Democracy - September 27-28\, 2019
DESCRIPTION:University of Ottawa\, Faculty of Social Sciences Building\n120 University Private\, Ottawa\, September 27-28\, 2019\n\n  Program    Chair Statement \n  Credit Card Registration     Register by Cheque/Email Transfer \n\nStatement of Conference Chair: Manfred Beinefeld \n Democracies around the world are being eroded and destabilized by a tsunami of social challenges all ultimately linked to an explosive growth in inequality and economic insecurity. But although this fact is now all but universally acknowledged there is confusion and disagreement about the forces that have led to these totally unexpected outcomes. Well\, unexpected to those old enough to remember a time when the almost everyone believed in the idea of progress and the dream of a leisure society?” So how are we to understand the reasons why those dreams have now been all but forgotten\, especially since the hoped for technological progress that was to make that leisure society possible\, did actually materialize? Or to put this another way\, why did that technological progress occur in a form that is not only failing to usher in a leisure society\, but that is actually further accelerating the scourges of inequality and economic insecurity. \nAt heart this conference will focus on a critical examination of the proposition that despite the complexity of the issues\, and the diversity of the consequences\, the roots of this nightmare can be traced back to three fundamental – and interrelated – causes: the rise of a global financial system that can no longer be regulated in the public interest; the rise of an international trading system that has dramatically undercut the ability of labour to share in productivity gains; and the enshrinement of a deeply individualistic ideology that has greatly increased the power of corporate capital to act with virtual impunity – witness the US pharmaceutical industry’s pricing policies – while reducing the scope for effective collective action in the public interest\, either by governments\, regulatory agencies\, trade unions or civil society organizations. \nAttempts to resist – let alone reverse – these trends face formidable challenges\, in part because the underlying issues are so international in scope\, and in part because their complexity allows powerful interests to poison the efforts to deal with these problems rationally – and democratically – which is to say\, on the basis of an informed and free public debate. But that does not mean that such efforts are doomed to fail and\, at this conference\, we will seek to explore the most promising avenues for resistance always remembering that what progress was made at certain times in the past\, was made in the teeth of fierce resistance and vitriolic denunciation. If success does not seem imminent\, it is increasingly clear that business as usual is surely a recipe for a future that almost no one would willingly choose if presented with its true dimensions and characteristics. After all\, none of the political parties promoting the neoliberal reforms that brought us to the current impasse\, advised voters that they were voting for increased income equality and greater economic insecurity\, which should serve as a reminder that democracy can function as it should – and must – only when voters are making choices based on an open and well informed debate. \n\nProgram \n6:30 pm\, THURSDAY\, Sept. 26\, 2019\, Academic Hall (SMN) University of Ottawa\,133 Séraphin-Marion Private \nDoors Open: Special Film Screening and Panel: Free event\, donations are much appreciated\nOne World Arts and the Group of 78\, have partnered to offer the Ottawa premiere of The Corporate Coup d’Etat .  \n  \n5:00 p.m. FRIDAY\, Sept. 27\, 2019 Conference Registration opens\, University of Ottawa\, Faculty of Social Sciences Building\, 120 University Private\, Room 4007\n5:30 p.m. Keynote Address by Robert Kuttner: Saving Democracy From Globalization:  \nModerator: Roy Culpeper\, Chair\, Group of 78 \nIntroductory Remarks: Ed Broadbent \nKeynote speaker: Robert Kuttner\, Heller School for Social Policy and Management\, Brandeis University. \n 7:30 p.m. Dinner and Discussion: Q & A \nModerator: Roy Culpeper\, Chair\, Group of 78 \nDiscussants: \nManfred Bienefeld\, Professor Emeritus\, School of Policy and Public Administration. \nRobert Kuttner\, Heller School for Social Policy and Management\, Brandeis University. \nArmine Yalnizyan\, Former senior economist\, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives; Fellow at the Atkinson Foundation. \n 8:15 a.m. SATURDAY\, Sept 28\, 2019 Registration Opens\n9:00 a.m. Panel 1: Global and macroeconomic policies that drive increasing inequality and challenge democracy:  \nModerator: Peter Venton\, Former senior economist in Ontario Government \nSpeakers: \n\n\n\nMario Seccareccia\, Professor Emeritus of Economics\, University of\n\n\n\nOttawa \n\n\n\nJohn Myles\, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Senior Research\n\n\n\nFellow\, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy\, University of \nToronto \n 10:30 a.m.  Coffee/Health Break \n11:00 a.m. Panel 2: National\, microeconomic\, social and labour market policies leading to wage stagnation\, precarity\, the gig economy\, growing income disparities: \nModerator: Gordon Betcherman\, Professor\, School of International Development and \nGlobal Studies\, University of Ottawa \nSpeakers: \n\n\n\nLeilani Farha\, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing;\n\n\n\n        Executive Director\, Canada without Poverty \n\n\n\nKatherine Scott\, Senior Economist\, CCPA\, gender equality and public policy\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEllen Russell\, Associate professor in Digital Media and Journalism and Social and Environmental Justice programs\, Wilfrid Laurier University\n\n\n\n12:30 p.m. Lunch \n1:30 p.m. Keynote Address by Julie Delahanty: Public Good or Private Wealth? \nModerator: Roy Culpeper\, Chair\, Group of 78\nKeynote speaker: Julie Delahanty\, Executive Director\, Oxfam Canada \n2:30 p.m. Coffee/Health Break \n2:45 p.m.  Panel 3: Restoring policy space and national capacity to reverse growing inequality and strengthen democracy. \nModerator: Manfred Bienefeld\, Professor Emeritus\, School of Policy and Public Administration \nSpeakers: \n\n\n\nLars Osberg\, McCulloch Professor of Economics\, Dalhousie University.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nToby Sanger\, Executive Director\, Canadians for Tax Fairness.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAngella MacEwen\, Senior Economist\, Canadian Union of Public Employees.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4:20 p.m. Robert Kuttner\, Keynote Speaker: Reflections on the Conference Proceedings \n4:35 p.m. Conference Conclusion and Closing Remarks \n4:50 p.m. Conference Adjourns \n5:15 p.m. Group of 78 Annual Meeting to follow immediately \n\nThank you to our Sponsors:
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SUMMARY:Corporate Coup D'Etat (Screening and Post Screening-Panel /Discussion)
DESCRIPTION:One World Arts  and the Group of 78\, have partnered to offer the Ottawa premiere of The Corporate Coup d’Etat . This event will open the Group of 78\, 2019 Annual Policy Conference\, Global Markets\, Inequality\, and the Future of Democracy. It is also the opening film of the One World Film Festival which is celebrating its 30th anniversary. \nFilm Screening will be followed by a panel discussion on the issues raised in the film. \nLocation: Academic Hall (SMN) 133 Séraphin-Marion Private\, Ottawa\, ON\, K1N 1A2\nAdmission is free: We will be accepting voluntary donation at the door to help cover the cost of the event.\n*Seating will be first come first serve. Donating through Eventbrite does not guarantee a seat. We thank you for your support and look forward to seeing you there.  \nTHE CORPORATE COUP D’ÉTAT PDF \n \n \n\nDirector Fred Peabody\nProducers Peter Raymont \nExecutive Producers Peter Raymont\, Fred Peabody\, Steve Ord\, Jeff Cohen\, Hans Robert Eisenhauer\n\nA democracy should protect its citizens\, especially the most vulnerable among them\, but increasingly the United States is failing to do so. This investigative and persuasive documentary blends the insights of philosophers\, authors and journalists with the experiences of citizens of the Rust Belt in the U.S. Midwest\, where the steel industry once flourished\, but where closures and outsourcing have left urban areas desolate and hopeless. It’s here that Donald Trump finds some of his most fervent supporters\, as he’s not considered part of the hated Washington establishment. \nJournalist Chris Hedges\, argues that the crisis predates Donald Trump’s election by many years. As his source of inspiration\, the Canadian philosopher John Ralston Saul\, Hedges regards Trump as the symptom rather than the disease. Decades ago\, U.S. democracy began selling its soul to big corporations. Lobbyists and corporatism took control in Washington\, gradually undermining the will of the people. Journalist Naomi Klein recently described Trump’s administration as a “corporate coup d’état”. Hedges and Ralston Saul argue that the real coup took place long before. \nFeaturing: Chris Hedges\, John Ralston Saul\, Cornel West\, Sarah Jaffe\, Lee Fang\, Maude Barlow\, Phillip Martin \nThe screening date will be Thursday\, Sept. 26 and the start time will be 7:00 pm. There will be a Panel discussion on the issues raised in the film. \nParking is available at the rear of the building after 3:00 pm\, $4.50/hour\, max $9/day. Please see the map below. Please note that Séraphin-Marion is closed to vehicles directly in front\, but there is a loading zone adjacent to Tabaret Lawn not far from the entrance. 
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SUMMARY:MEETING THE CLIMATE CHALLENGE: Accelerating the Transition to a Post-Carbon World
DESCRIPTION:Group of 78 Annual Policy Conference \n \n  \n\nGroup of 78 Annual Policy Conference\nCartier Place Suite Hotel\, Ottawa\, September 28-29\, 2018\n\nProgram    Chair Statement \n  Credit Card Registration     Register by Cheque/Email Transfer \n\n Conference Outline\nAccumulating evidence shows the world’s ecosystem careening towards ever more unpredictable and disruptive outcomes\, even as the global community’s responses become increasingly disjointed and incoherent. If this course is not altered\, the global community faces an existential crisis that\, similar to the use of nuclear weapons\, could spell the end to civilization as we know it\, and perhaps of humanity itself. \nThe aim of the conference is to identify policies\, actions and forces to be mobilized to achieve transformation to a fully sustainable society\, in every nation state and globally. \nToo often\, news reports of climate change related disasters in all parts of the world do not make the connection to human causes. Thus much of the global public remains in denial of the serious need to act aggressively both politically and economically. \nYet there are solutions. A small but increasing number of governments are adopting policies and promoting actions to mitigate climate change. Market forces are shifting toward cheaper green energy and other low carbon technologies. Civil society is mobilizing public opinion and advocating constructive government action. \nAgainst this backdrop Canada’s Liberal government has defined itself – and has been widely perceived – as a beacon of hope and positive engagement in sharp contrast to the depressing spectacle of a US government gutting environmental regulations\, doubling down on use of fossil fuels and actively sabotaging the modest achievements of the Paris Climate Accord. \nWhile the Canadian government’s language in this drama has changed for the better since the previous government’s “war against science”\, the question remains how serious is our government’s commitment to the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Recent projections indicate that Canada will fall well short of meeting its Paris commitments. Some argue that its efforts are incoherent and lack the ambition necessary to make more progress and show leadership on this front. \nThe conference will examine questions such as: \n\nThe complex context of the Climate Challenge\, nationally and internationally\, and the policy framework required to address it.\nThe leadership needed to promote global cooperation in addressing the Climate Crisis in a timely manner.\nCreating coherence between green public policies and related socio-economic policies such as military and trade agreements.\n\nA conference report will be shared widely and the Group of 78 will work with other organizations to press for changes in government policy and action to implement the conclusions and recommendations. \n  \n\n\nProgram\nTHURSDAY\, Sept 27\, 2018 evening – $10.00 tickets at the door \n6:45 p.m.\n \nFilm Screening: Anote’s Ark (2017)\, at Mayfair Theatre\, co-presentation with One World Arts and the One World Film Festival \nhttp://www.anotesark.com/  \n Panel & Discussion to follow \n  \nFRIDAY\, Sept. 28\, 2018 evening \n6:00 p.m.\nDinner & Keynote Address:\nWhat’s love got to do with it? Climate politics\, solutions and the future of our planet\n \nIndigenous Acknowledgement: Elder Verna Macgregor\, Algonquin Nation \nModerator: Roy Culpeper\, Chair\, Group of 78 \nKeynote speaker: Joanna Kerr – Executive director\, Greenpeace Canada \n  \nSATURDAY\, Sept 29\, 2018 day \n8:30 a.m.\nPanel 1: Magnitude of the Problem\, A Comprehensive Approach Needed \nModerator: Manfred Bienefeld\, Vice Chair\, Group of 78 \nSpeaker 1: Rohinton P. Medhora – President\, Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) \nSpeaker 2: Prof. Gordon McBean – President\, International Council for Science; Co-chair\, Governing Council\, Future Earth \nSpeaker 3: Mike de Souza – Managing Editor\, National Observer \n11:00 a.m.\nPanel 2: The Trudeau Government’s Policies in a Global Perspective \nModerator: Susan Tanner\, Board Director\, Group of 78\, & Chair\, Conference Planning Committee \nSpeaker 1: Tzeporah Berman – Author\, environmental campaigner\, and Adjunct Professor\, York University Environmental Studies \nSpeaker 2: Scott Vaughan\, CEO\, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) \n  \n12:30 p.m. \nLunch & Speaker: Serious About Climate Resilience? Empower Gender Equity\nTracy Mann\, Climate Wise Women \n  \n 2:00 p.m.\nPanel 3: Getting from Here to There – Inspiring initiatives – Mobilizing People \nModerator: Andrea Harden\, Climate Campaigner\, Council of Canadians \nSpeakers:\n1: Martin Settle\, Co-Executive Director\, USC Canada – Actions on Global Agriculture \n2 : Karine Peloffy\, Avocate conseil\, Centre québécois du droit de l’environnement – Climate Lens on Environmental Assessment \n3: Val Courtois\, ED\, – Indigenous  Leadership Initiative on Indigenous Stewardship \n4: Dr. Curtis Lavoie\, CPHA\, – Climate Change Impacts on Public Health \n  \n4:00 p.m.  Conference Conclusion and Closing Remarks: Roy Culpeper & Susan Tanner \n  \nGroup of 78 Annual Meeting to follow immediately  \n  \n7:30 p.m. Climate Stomp: Dancing\, Live Music\, Cash Bar\, and Appetizers will be Provided\n\n\n 
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170922
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170924
DTSTAMP:20260418T074955
CREATED:20170415T203926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T141505Z
UID:2701-1506038400-1506211199@group78.org
SUMMARY:Conference: Getting to Nuclear Zero / Arriver au Zéro Nucléaire
DESCRIPTION: Group of 78 Annual Policy Conference 2017 \nGETTING TO NUCLEAR ZERO\nBUILDING COMMON SECURITY FOR A POST-MAD WORLD\n \nARRIVER AU ZÉRO NUCLÉAIRE\nCONSTRUIRE UNE SÉCURITÉ COMMUNE POUR UN MONDE POST–DMA \n  \nGroup of 78 Annual Policy Conference\nIn cooperation with: The Rideau Institute\, the Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons\,\nCanadian Voice of Women for Peace\, Mines Action Canada\,\nPhysicians for Global Survival\, Project Ploughshares\,\nWorld Federalist Movement – Canada\nCartier Place Suite Hotel\, Ottawa\, September 22-23\, 2017 \n  \n  \nOnline Registration \nRegister by Mail          Inscription par courrier \n\n\n Program                    Outline                    Grandes Lignes
URL:https://group78.org/event/conference-getting-to-nuclear-zero-arriver-au-zero-nucleaire/
LOCATION:Cartier Place Suite Hotel\, 180 Cooper St.\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Conference
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://group78.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/bomb.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Bowles":MAILTO:group78@group78.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20150925T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20150927T120000
DTSTAMP:20260418T074955
CREATED:20150714T200520Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150909T173500Z
UID:2335-1443204000-1443355200@group78.org
SUMMARY:Annual Policy Conference 2015 
DESCRIPTION:Strengthening Multilateral Cooperation:\nThe United Nations at 70\nGroup of 78 Annual Policy Conference  \nRegistration Now Open \nSeptember 25-27\, 2015\nCartier Place Suite Hotel\, 180 Cooper Street\, Ottawa \nConference Program             English     French \nPrintable Registration Form (payment by cheque)  English    French \nOnline Registration Option (transaction charges apply) Click here \nSpeakers Bios
URL:https://group78.org/event/annual-policy-conference-2015/
LOCATION:Cartier Place Suite Hotel\, 180 Cooper St.\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Conference
ORGANIZER;CN="Mary Edwards":MAILTO:group78@web.net
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