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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.
URL:https://group78.org/event/2021-annual-policy-conference/
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:October 20\, 2021 Recording - Putting your money where it can fight climate change
DESCRIPTION:Outline: \nThis webinar will examine how your retirement savings can help defuse the growing climate crisis and pave the transition to a sustainable planet. It will discuss investment products such as impact funds\, mutual funds\, green bonds and exchange-traded funds claiming to decarbonize the economy\, and how financial advisors can be engaged in the conversation. \nThe webinar is being brought to Ottawa Branch of the National Association of Federal Retirees by Climate Legacy who seek to involve seniors in climate action and the Group of 78 an informal association of Canadians seeking to promote global priorities for peace and disarmament\, equitable and sustainable development\, and a strong and revitalized United Nations system. \n  \nYour registration confirmation with instructions on how to participate via Zoom will arrive by e-mail one day and 5 min prior to the event start time. \n  \nNote: This webinar will not provide investment advice regarding specific investments\, and the NAFR Ottawa Branch takes no responsibility for any investment decisions that participants may make. Participants will be asked to sign a waiver to this effect. \n  \nOttawa Branch Disclaimer: The Ottawa Branch provides information on issues\, products and services of general interest to our membership. It does not endorse a particular position or an issue\, product or service\, as being suitable for individual members\, but brings them to the members’ attention so that they can make up their own minds. \n  \nIf you would like to support our ongoing activities any contribution of $20.00 or over will be provided with a charitable tax receipt. You can also donate and see other activities of the Group of 78 and Climate Legacy by visiting our websites. Thank you for your support and participation. \nSpeakers: \n \nTim Nash is the founder of Good Investing\, an investment planning firm with a focus on sustainable investing. Tim’s blog The Sustainable Economist has inspired thousands of Canadians to invest according to their values with model portfolios to reflect different definitions of sustainable investing. Tim writes a bi-weekly column for The Toronto Star\, and is regularly featured in publications such as CBC’s The National\, BNN Bloomberg’s Market Call\, and the Globe and Mail. \n \nSue-May (Sue) Talbot is a Partner and Portfolio Manager at Genus Capital and has over 30 years of experience in the investment industry. In her role as Portfolio Manager\, Sue works with individuals\, families and organizations to help create impactful portfolios that align with their values. She also serves on the Leadership Team and Product Committee at Genus. Outside of work\, Sue enjoys gym workouts (pre-COVID)\, exploring hiking trails and family vacations. \nClick here to Register online (Free)
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SUMMARY:November 23\, 2021 Recording - Religious Leader Engagement - An Emerging Contribution to Peacebuilding
DESCRIPTION:Speakers \n\nLieutenant-General The Honorable Roméo A. Dallaire (retd)\nDr. Steve Moore\nBrigadier General Guy Belisle\n\nModerator \n\nDr. Sylvie Lemieux\n\n  \nOutline: \nDr. Moore will speak to the origins of Religious Leader Engagement\, inclusive of both Bosnian and Afghan operational environments (OEs). Chaplains were drawn to ministries of conciliation where building relationships and establishing trust with local/regional religious leaders led to enhanced communication and understanding within local populations. Brief overviews of operational anecdotes will demonstrate how chaplains aided Command and their Whole-of-Government partners alike. On completion of his doctoral studies\, Moore joined the Concept Cell of what is now the Canadian Army Land Warfare Centre where the concept of RLE emerged—an operational adaptation to the Public Space (JIMP) of local populations in OEs and critical contribution to the Comprehensive Approach. Later endorsed by the Army Capabilities Development Board as a chaplain operational capability\, padres now advise Command on the religious terrain (Religious Area Assessment) of an Area of Operation and\, security permitting and under the Commander’s direction\, engage local religious leaders in OEs at home and abroad. \nBrigadier General Guy Belisle will speak of RLE and Religious Area Assessment (RAA) in the context of Canadian Armed Forces current operations. He will highlight the successful application of the respective capabilities within training systems and operations\, both expeditionary and domestic. He will address the challenges that have been encountered with not only socializing the concepts of RLE/RAA\, but also about the unique demand placed upon chaplains with reference to time and perception. He will conclude on the opportunities that exist for developing the capabilities and how they may be used in the chaplain service of the future. \nGeneral Roméo Dallaire comes to Religious Leader Engagement with an appreciation of the value-added of such an operational capability. The Royal Canadian Chaplain Service and the Dallaire Institute for Children\, Peace and Security are presently developing collective training for chaplains\, expanding their capacities to aid in the prevention and reintegration of child soldiers in local communities within operational environments. In his role of Commissioner with the Principles for Peace Initiative\, General Dallaire will speak to the potential for RLE to assist in the reframing of present approaches to resolving conflict and establishing a sustainable peace\, achievements that have remained elusive to the international community. Religious leaders of moderate voice within local populations offer an available means of better comprehending the historical\, deep-rooted grievances indicative of intractable conflict with a view to ensure sustainable stabilization and security. Deemed as trusted community figures\, their engagement in\, what are often\, nascent peace processes\, serves to enhance ‘local ownership’\, an essential component to the receptivity of other associated endeavours. \nSpeaker Bio: \nLieutenant-General The Honorable Roméo A. Dallaire (retd) \nGeneral Roméo Dallaire is founder of the Dallaire Institute for Children\, Peace\, and Security\, a global partnership with the mission to end the recruitment and use of children in conflict and violence. A celebrated advocate for human rights\, General Dallaire is also a respected author\, government and UN advisor\, and former Canadian Senator. Throughout his distinguished military career\, General Dallaire served most notably as Force Commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda during the 1994 genocide. He continues to work tirelessly to bring national and international attention to situations too-often ignored\, whether the prevention of mass atrocities\, the struggle that he and many other military veterans face with post-traumatic stress disorder\, or the recruitment and use of children as weapons of war.  \nS.K. (Steve) Moore\, PhD a Padre in the Canadian Armed Forces for 22 years\, with operational tours to Bosnia during the war (92-93)\, Haiti (97-98) and doctoral research in Kandahar\, Afghanistan (2006). His post-doctoral work led to the chaplain operational capability\, Religious Leader Engagement (RLE)\, now being integrated into military training. He has advanced RLE within NATO and the Commonwealth\, increasingly assimilating a whole-of-government application—concepts now being adapted to the civilian sector. A member of the Editorial Board of the Canadian Army Journal\, his publications include Military Chaplains as Agents of Peace: Religious Leader Engagement in Conflict and Post-conflict Environments (Rowman & Littlefield\, 2013) and Religious Leader Engagement as an Aspect of Irregular Warfare: the dénouement of a chaplain operational capability (CANSOFCOM\, 2020).  \nBrigadier-General Guy Bélisle\, Chaplain General of the Canadian Armed Forces\, is one of those rare individuals in uniform\, having served as an Infantry officer prior to rebadging as a Roman Catholic Pastoral Associate and chaplain. His knowledge and experience as a Combat Arms Officer accounts for much of his effectiveness as a padre with Command and service members alike. Having served with the Royal 22e Régiment for 12 years\, he deployed to Bosnia during the war (1992) and as a Padre with the troops both to Haiti\, following the 2010 earthquake\, and to Afghanistan a year later (2011). Padre Bélisle has held a series of senior positions within the Royal Canadian Chaplain Service prior to being promoted and appointed Chaplain General in June 2021. It is due to his keen grasp of the operational environment that he promotes Religious Leader Engagement\, a chaplain operational capability now employed both domestically and internationally. \nDr. Sylvie Lemieux is a retired Lieutenant-Colonel Army Engineer and formerly an executive with the Public Service of Canada who\, on two occasions\, represented the Green Party of Canada (2008 and 2011). She is a graduate in Civil Engineering from Polytechnique\, and holds a Master of Arts degree in Globalization and International Development as well as a Doctorate in Conflict Studies from Saint-Paul University. She is active as a member of peace and foreign policies NGOs and is presently the co-chair of CNANW.
URL:https://group78.org/event/religious-leader-engagement-an-emerging-contribution-to-peacebuilding/
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Special Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:January 16\, 2022 Recording - Economic Sanctions: Legal and Policy Implications
DESCRIPTION:This webinar was hosted by The Rideau Institute\, in cooperation with the Human Rights Research and Education Center\, Univ of Ottawa and the Group of 78. It will explore the legal and policy implications of non-UN authorized economic sanctions\, a policy tool that is increasingly favoured by Canada\, other western states and regional organizations like the EU and the African Union. \nEconomic sanctions have become an increasingly favored tool of international relations over the last several decades\, but they have also become increasingly controversial. \nSpeakers:\nProfessor Craig Martin\, inaugural RI Senior Fellow\, and author of the RI report\, Economic Sanctions Under International Law\, a Guide for Canadian Policy and EU sanctions expert\, Professor Clara Portela\, will be joined by moderator and RI President Peggy Mason for this timely discussion. \nCraig Martin is a Professor of Law at Washburn University School of Law\, and the Co-Director of the Washburn International and Comparative Law Center. A graduate of the Royal Military College of Canada (B.A. Hons. His.)\, Osaka University\, Graduate School of Law and Politics\, (LL.M)\, and the University of Toronto\, Faculty of Law (J.D.)\, he teaches public international law\, the law of armed conflict\, international human rights law\, international climate change law\, and both comparative and U.S. constitutional law. \nClara Portela holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence (Italy) and an MA from the Free University of Berlin (Germany). She is a professor of Political Science at the University of Valencia (Spain)\, having previously served at Singapore Management University (Singapore) and the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) in Paris (France). She received the THESEUS Award for Promising Research on European Integration for her monograph European Union Sanctions and Foreign Policy. She has been a visiting scholar at Carleton University and a visiting professor at the University of Victoria.
URL:https://group78.org/event/economic-sanctions-legal-and-policy-implications/
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Special Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:February 22\, 2022 Recording - The Impossible Dream:  Bending the long arc of growth and profit toward social benefit at a time of climate emergency
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nSpeaker: Merle Lefkoff\, Phd\,\nFounding Director\, Center for Emergent Diplomacy Santa Fe\, New Mexico \nEvent Summary: \nDr. Lefkoff will examine the reasons why “sustainable investing” (sometimes called impact investing or environmental\, social\, and governance investing\, ESGs) is hastening the exponential race toward global climate collapse\, even as CEOs like Larry Fink of BlackRock\, the most prominent investment leader in the world\, promotes companies like BlackRock as the best hope for a more sustainable version of capitalism.  Here’s the question she will address:  Is it possible to be a good socially responsible citizen\, while at the same time carrying out the fiduciary responsibility to make the most profit possible for the shareholders of a corporation? \n   \nMerle Lefkoff\, PhD  \nRecently returned from facilitating a workshop at COP26\, Merle is a social change entrepreneur whose passion and practice is devoted to the application of nonlinear complex systems thinking to surviving climate change on a much-altered planet.  Merle holds a doctorate in Political Science from Emory University and has been a mediator\, facilitator\, and leadership trainer in active conflict zones around the world. She received a research appointment as Guest Scientist and Affiliate of the Center for Nonlinear Studies\, at Los Alamos National Laboratory\, where she worked on computer simulations exploring a range of negotiation strategies in the search for coexistence among competing adversaries.  She led the planning group of NGO leaders at the United Nations launch of the Gross National Happiness index and is a member of the Integrative Peacebuilding Network in Ottawa\, Canada. \n  \nA year earlier\, former chief of the Australian Defense Force Admiral Chris Barrie\, in his Forward to a policy paper analyzing climate-related security threats in Australia wrote\, “our intelligence and security services have a vital role to play\, and a fiduciary responsibility\, in accepting this existential climate threat\, and the need for a fundamentally different approach to its risk management\, as central to their considerations and their advice to government. The implications far outweigh conventional geopolitical threats.” \n\nIf you would like to contribute to support our ongoing activities any contribution of $20.00 or over will be provided with a charitable tax receipt.  Thank you for your support and participation.
URL:https://group78.org/event/the-impossible-dream-bending-the-long-arc-of-growth-and-profit-toward-social-benefit-at-a-time-of-climate-emergency/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Special Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:February 23\, 2022 Recording - CACOR EVENT - International Cooperation to Align Fossil Fuel Production with Paris Goals: A Bold New Idea
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nThe Canadian Association for the Club of Rome is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. \n  \nTopic: Tzeporah Berman | International Cooperation to Align Fossil Fuel Production with Paris Goals: A Bold New Idea \nTime: Feb 23\, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) \n  \nSummary: \nWhile the world has known for decades that emissions from fossil fuels must decline\, the Paris Agreement and most domestic policy focuses on reducing demand for fossil fuels and not supply. The United Nations Production Gap Report shows clearly that we are now on track to produce over 100% more oil\, gas and coal than the world can burn and stay under 1.5C.  What needs to happen to align fossil fuel supply with Paris goals? How can we fast track progress while ensuring equity and addressing energy poverty? \nBio: \nTzeporah Berman is the International Program Director at Stand.earth and the Chair of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Committee. She is an Adjunct Professor at York University Faculty and in 2021 she gave a widely-viewed TED \n  \nJoin Zoom Meeting \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83916511294?pwd=VjRNK0FZVHcyNWNFN0poeTNudlpKZz09 \n  \nMeeting ID: 839 1651 1294 \nPasscode: 756352 \n  \n\n\n\n  \n 
URL:https://group78.org/event/cacor-event-international-cooperation-to-align-fossil-fuel-production-with-paris-goals-a-bold-new-idea/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:March 3\, 2022 Recording - From Climate Laggards to Leaders: Transforming Public Pension Funds
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSlides-Climate-Legacy-PSP-Webinar-Mar-9-2022Download\n\n\n\nClimate Legacy\, in partnership with SHIFT\, is hosting an online workshop for working and retired federal public servants on the Public Service Pension Investment Board (PSP) and the climate crisis. The workshop will: \n\n\n\ninform PSP beneficiaries about the urgency of the climate crisis and the concept of carbon lock-in;explain to PSP beneficiaries why the investment decisions of their $205 billion pension fund matter;describe the financial risks of climate change to public service pensions;provide a summary of how PSP is managing these risks\, and an overview of its risky investments in fossil fuels and other high-carbon projects and companies;compare PSP’s approach to climate change and fossil fuels to that of the Canada Pension Plan ahd the Quebec Pension Planshow how working and retired federal public servants have the power to take action and demand better from their pension fund managers.\n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nAdam Scott is a climate change expert with extensive domestic and international experience in policy\, energy and finance\, as well as campaign design and execution. He has a lifelong commitment to supporting the transition to a zero carbon economy in Canada. At Shift\, he works with wide-ranging stakeholders to bring international climate leadership into Canada’s financial sector. Previously\, Adam was Senior Advisor to Oil Change International and manager of Environmental Defence Canada’s Climate & Energy program. Adam has advised governments\, communicated through national and international media\, and published numerous reports focused on various aspects of the low carbon transition. \n\n\n\nPatrick DeRochie has wide-ranging experience in policy\, research\, government relations\, digital engagement\, campaigning\, organizing and stakeholder relations with environmental and labour organizations. At Shift\, he is focused on tracking and analyzing the fossil fuel and climate-related investments of Canadian pension funds and building a network of pension beneficiaries to invest their retirement savings in a zero-carbon future. Previously\, Patrick was Climate and Energy Program Manager with Environmental Defence Canada and Political Organizer with SEIU Healthcare\, one of Canada’s largest healthcare labour unions. Patrick has been deeply involved in developing federal and provincial climate and energy policy and regulations and acts as a regular commentator in national media. \n\n\n\nLaura McGrath is Shift’s Pension Engagement Manager and the lead on Shift’s work on OMERS and HOOPP. Laura has extensive experience building and supporting networks to work for meaningful change. At Shift\, she works with networks of pension beneficiaries who want to understand and communicate to their pension funds the financial risks that climate change poses. Previously\, Laura was Network Engagement Manager at Green Economy Canada. With expertise in coaching\, facilitation\, and training design and delivery\, she is especially interested in the intersection of climate change and psychology. Laura and her family live in Toronto. \n\n\n\nDr. Tessa Hebb is a Distinguished Research Fellow and past Director of the Carleton Centre forCommunity Innovation\, Carleton University\, Canada. She is working with Ceres to expand itsfootprint in Canada. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Policy andAdministration and the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University. She has publishedmany books and articles on responsible investing and impact investing including the volumes theRoutledge Handbook of Responsible Investmentand SRI in the 21st Century: Does it make a Difference to Society.
URL:https://group78.org/event/from-climate-laggards-to-leaders-transforming-the-public-service-pension-funds/
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SUMMARY:March 15\, 2022 Event Slides - The Nature Revolution: Global trends in the fight against species collapse
DESCRIPTION:03.22 – Group 78 – Graham Saul PresentationDownload\n\n\n\nEvent Summary: \n\n\n\nClimate Change and mass extinction have emerged as the twin existential environmental crises of our time. In response\, movements and decision-makers are increasingly advocating for new approaches and bold commitments that reflect the scale of the problem. In this talk\, Graham will cover many of the emerging trends related to nature conservation and reflect on how we can help put big new ideas into action in Canada. \n\n\n\nGraham Saul has more than 25 years of experience working on social and environmental justice issues. He has a strong background in the climate and environmental movements\, including work with Oxfam in Mozambique\, with various multilateral development banks\, as an international programme director for Friends of the Earth and Oil Change International\, as Executive Director of Climate Action Network and as a founding member of Ecology Ottawa. He brings this rich diversity of experience to his leadership of the remarkable and inspiring staff and volunteers that make up the Nature Canada team.
URL:https://group78.org/event/the-nature-revolution-global-trends-in-the-fight-against-species-collapse/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:March 29\, 2022 Recording - Global Food Security and the Ukraine Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Event Summary: \n\n\n\nCorporate concentration has become a dominant feature of the modern industrial food system. In nearly all stages of global food supply chains\, from farm inputs\, to production\, to trade\, to food processing and food retail\, a common pattern is that just a handful of transnational firms tend to dominate markets and wield significant power. What does this concentrated power mean for food security and food system sustainability\, especially for the world’s poorest people and countries? \n\n\n\nThis talk examines the implications of concentrated corporate power in the global food system in the context of the current climate and COVID crises\, and the current war in Ukraine\, and maps out potential policy options to rein in corporate power in the sector. \n\n\n\nJennifer Clapp is a Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security and Sustainability and Professor in the School of Environment\, Resources and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo. She has published widely on the global governance of problems that arise at the intersection of the global economy\, food security and food systems\, and the natural environment. Her recent books include Food\, 3rd Edition (Polity\, 2020)\, Speculative Harvests: Financialization\, Food\, and Agriculture (with S. Ryan Isakson\, Fernwood Press\, 2018)\, and Hunger in the Balance: The New Politics of International Food Aid (Cornell University Press\, 2012. Jennifer is the Vice-Chair of the High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition of the UN Committee on World Food Security and a member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems. \n\n\n\nDownload Event Pdf
URL:https://group78.org/event/corporate-concentration-and-power-in-the-global-food-system/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:April 26\, 2022 Recording - Why we must take control of Artificial Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:John Anderson will examine the importance of the regulation of AI and new forms of automation both as they effect jobs in the workplace\, privacy and use and abuse for monitoring people in and out of the workplace and use in cybersecurity and control. As Vladimir Putin put it in 2017\, “Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Anderson is a Senior Researcher with the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada. He represents PIPSC on the Canadian Labour Congress Task Force on Automation and Artificial Intelligence which will present its report in the fall of this year. Prior to this\, John was an independent researcher who wrote the major studies on postal banking for the Canadian Union of Postal Workers and several reports for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives including one on regulating the digital giants. He also has been the Director of Policy and Research for the Federal NDP as well as Director of Policy for the Canadian Co-operative Association and Research Director for the Canadian Council on Social Development\, as well co-ordinator of the Technological Adjustment Research Project for the Ontario Federation of Labour. He taught Labour Studies at McMaster University for 13 years. He is a frequent op-ed contributor to major dailies. He has a BA and MA from McGill University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2022-04-26-Webinar-NoticeDownload\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you would like to contribute to support our ongoing activities any contribution of $20.00 or over will be provided with a charitable tax receipt.  Thank you for your support and participation. \n\n\n\nPhoto credit link: – https://www.flickr.com/photos/152824664@N07/44405376514/
URL:https://group78.org/event/webinar-april-26-why-we-must-take-control-of-artificial-intelligence/
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SUMMARY:May 3\, 2022 Recording - What Ukraine tells us about nuclear deterrence and common security
DESCRIPTION:Event Summary: \n\n\n\nIn the shadow of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine\, moderator Peggy Mason will explore with panelists Robin Collins and Cesar Jaramillo what the crisis may mean for nuclear disarmament goals\, European security\, NATO’s reliance on nuclear deterrence\, and challenges to the UN and UN Charter framework itself. \n\n\n\nModerator: \n\n\n\nPeggy Mason is the President of the Rideau Institute on International Affairs\, an independent think tank dedicated to revitalizing Canada’s diplomat\, peacekeeping and peacebuilding roles in the world. Her distinguished career highlights diplomatic and specialist expertise in the field of international security\, with a particular emphasis on the United Nations\, where she served as Canada’s Ambassador for Disarmament from 1989 to 1995. She has led Canadian delegations to NPT and BWC Review Conferences\, chaired UN expert groups on arms control verification and small arms regulation and served for two terms on the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament.  \n\n\n\nSpeakers: \n\n\n\nRobin Collins works with several civil society organizations on disarmament\, global governance and common security advocacy\, and war and peace issues. He is Co-chair of the Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons\, and on the boards of Canadian Pugwash Group and World Federalist Movement — Canada. He is a member of the Group of 78 peace and security working group. \n\n\n\nCesar Jaramillo is executive director at Project Ploughshares. His areas of expertise include nuclear disarmament\, outer space security and conventional weapons control. As an international civil society representative\, Cesar has addressed\, among others\, the UN General Assembly First Committee (Disarmament and International Security)\, the UN Conference on Disarmament\, the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS)\, states parties to the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)\, and states parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). He has also given guest lectures and presentations at academic institutions such as the National Law University in New Delhi\, the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing\, and the University of Toronto.
URL:https://group78.org/event/webinar-may-3-what-ukraine-tells-us-about-nuclear-deterrence-and-common-security/
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SUMMARY:June 15th Webinar Recording - Do Green Bonds Matter?
DESCRIPTION:Outline \n\n\n\nGreen bonds are one of the hottest options in the fight against climate change\, a chance for everyday and institutional investors to match their dollars with their environmental values while getting a return on their investment. At a time when we need a seven-fold increase in climate investment around the world\, every funding source has to be mobilized. But the details matter. What defines a green bond? How important are they as a source of climate finance? What difference have they made since they were introduced? How can bond buyers be sure their green investment dollars are going into legitimate climate solutions? Join us at 1 pm ET on Wednesday\, June 15 to find out. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nSara Alvarado is Executive Director\, Institute for Sustainable Finance at Queen’s University. She is former Head of Risk\, Canada Infrastructure Bank. Prior to that\, she was Senior Officer\, Infrastructure New Products & Special Transactions at the European Investment Bank  based in Luxembourg. Before moving to the EU\, Sara held positions at Manulife\, Sun Life\, and Scotia Capital. Sara is current Co-Chair at the World Economic Forum’s Infrastructure 4.0 Initiative. She is Board Member at Cambridge Memorial Hospital. She is a CFA charter holder and holds an MBA from Edinburgh Business School. \n\n\n\nMitchell Beer is Publisher and Managing Editor of The Energy Mix\, a news site and e-digest on climate change\, energy\, and the shift off carbon. He traces his background in renewable energy and energy efficiency to 1977\, in climate change to 1997\, and delivered a TEDx Ottawa talk in October\, 2019 on how to build wider public demand for faster\, deeper carbon cuts. A proud moment was building a model wind turbine out of wooden stir sticks with his then-11-year-old daughter\, and improv comedy practices are often the best part of his week. \n\n\nRegister on Eventbrite
URL:https://group78.org/event/do-green-bonds-matter/
CATEGORIES:Special Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:War in Ukraine: Possibilities for a Peace Settlement
DESCRIPTION:ER-Notes-revised.War-in-Ukraine-and-Possibilities-for-a-Peace-Settlement.5-Oct-2022.G78-webinarDownload\n\n\n\nAs the current phase of intense fighting in Ukraine stretches beyond six months\, news reports and analyses focus on key elements of the war – shifting battle fronts\, ground gained and lost\, weapons promised and shipped\, the still mounting tragedies of death\, displacement\, and physical destruction\, and the resulting economic and food insecurities that extend well beyond the borders of Ukraine. Another feature of what has become this grinding war of attrition has received much less attention – namely\, the sidelining of the diplomacy that will inevitably be central to silencing the guns and bringing the devastating hyper-violence of this conflict to an end. \n\n\n\nOn October 5\, the Group of 78 will host a webinar to explore diplomatic approaches to ending the fighting and to addressing the conflicts at the core of the fighting. Guest speaker Ernie Regehr will draw on insights from his decades of work on peacebuilding including his Resolving Conflict: Why peace cannot be won on the battlefield (2015) to explore pathways to a sustainable and just peace between Russia and Ukraine. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator: \n\n\n\nJohn Foster\, petroleum economist\, held positions at the World Bank\, Inter-American Development Bank\, BP and Petro-Canada. He is a member of the Group of 78’s Board of Directors and lives in Kingston ON. His blog is johnfosterwrites.com. \n\n\n\nSpeaker: \n\n\n\nErnie Regehr is Senior Fellow at The Simons Foundation of Vancouver and Research Fellow at the Centre for Peace Advancement\, Conrad Grebel University College\, the University of Waterloo. He is co-founder of Project Ploughshares\, and his publications on peace and security issues include books\, monographs\, journal articles\, policy papers\, parliamentary briefs\, and op-eds. He has traveled frequently to conflict zones\, especially in East Africa\, contributed to Track II diplomacy efforts related to the conflict in southern Sudan\, and is on the Board of the Africa Peace Forum of Nairobi\, Kenya. He is a former Commissioner of the World Council of Churches Commission on International Affairs\, where he was active in developing the WCC’s position on R2P. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada. \n\n\nRegister on Eventbrite
URL:https://group78.org/event/war-in-ukraine-possibilities-for-a-peace-settlement/
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SUMMARY:Watch the video: "What did two COPS Conferences achieve? Where did they fail?"
DESCRIPTION:In November and December 2022\, two crucial international conferences were held—one (COP- \n\n\n\n27)\, at Sharm el Sheikh\, Egypt\, on the climate crisis; and the second (COP-15)\, at Montreal\, on \n\n\n\nthe biodiversity crisis. The issues discussed at these two gatherings are intimately related; they \n\n\n\nboth focus on the survival of the planet as we know it. While there were some important \n\n\n\nbreakthroughs—an agreement to compensate poor countries for loss and damage from climate \n\n\n\nchange which is caused largely by rich countries over the past 200 years—many other \n\n\n\nobjectives were not met. In particular\, decisive action on eradicating emissions that are the \n\n\n\nprincipal cause of global warming was conspicuously absent.  \n\n\n\nWhat must be done in the wake of such failed international efforts to thwart climate catastrophe? \n\n\n\nModerator: Susan Tanner\, G78 vice-chair and coordinator of the CCWG \n\n\n\nSusan Tanner\, Vice-Chair Group of 78; Secretary\, OREC; Chair Conference Organizing Committee \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\, completed 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. Government 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 of the Social Assessment Review Board; and mediator for the Ontario Grievance Settlement Board. She holds a Master of Environmental Studies and a Masters of Law. \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jennifer Bansard\, Writer\, Earth Negotiations Bulletin \n\n\n\nJennifer is a political scientist with expertise in climate\, biodiversity\, and urban governance\, as well as the role of science in environmental governance. She works at the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU)\, which provides science-based advice on sustainability issues. \n\n\n\nJennifer holds Master’s Degrees in Environment & Resource Management (VU Amsterdam\, Netherlands)\, International Relations (Sciences Po Aix\, France)\, and Applied Political Sciences (University of Freiburg\, Germany). She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Potsdam. In her dissertation\, she examines the emergence of “blue carbon\,” a concept that refers to the carbon sequestration potential of coastal ecosystems\, such as mangroves\, seagrasses\, and salt marshes.  \n\n\n\nJennifer is passionate about all things environmental. When she is not in front of a computer\, she loves to hike around one of the many lakes in the Berlin area.
URL:https://group78.org/event/what-did-two-cops-conferences-achieve-where-did-they-fail/
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SUMMARY:Watch the video: Canada can't reach UN Climate Targets. Why not?
DESCRIPTION:Find out during our February webinar\, with Bruce Campbell and Jason MacLean\, as they discuss how Big Oil’s regulatory capture practices are preventing Canada from meeting the UN Climate Targets. \n\n\n\nBruce Campbell is the editor of “Corporate Rules: The Real World of Business Regulation in Canada: How government regulators are failing the public interest\,” James Lorimer\, 2022. He is an executive member of the Group of 78; an adjunct professor at York University\, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change; and a Senior Fellow\, at Toronto Metropolitan University\, Centre for Free Expression. He is the former Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. \n\n\n\nJason MacLean is a contributor to Corporate Rules. He is an Assistant Professor\, at the University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law\, and an Adjunct Professor\, at the School of Environment and Sustainability\, at the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. MacLean is one of Canada’s leading authorities on corporate regulatory capture in fossil fuels\, environment\, and agrochemicals sectors; their impact on climate; and how to overcome\, capture\, and catalyze transformative climate change.
URL:https://group78.org/event/canada-cant-reach-un-climate-targets-why-not/
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SUMMARY:View Video of Canada's Review of General Preferential Tariffs & Feminism
DESCRIPTION:Canada is currently undertaking a review of its General Preferential Tariff and the Least Developed Country (LDC) Tariff. At stake is whether Canada will continue to treat exports from female-intensive and growth-promoting industries favorably or not. \n\n\n\nCanada’s highest-value industrial imports from developing countries are in many cases apparel. LDCs Bangladesh\, Cambodia\, and Nepal have benefitted from a growth-promoting zero tariff but could be graduated to non-LDC treatment. \n\n\n\nNon-LDCs and non-FTA country exports to Canada are currently treated to a wage–depressing\, growth-destroying tariff peak of 17 percent. \n\n\n\nThe government is asking what should change. \n\n\n\nCanada needs to review this issue through the lens of its feminist international trade and development policies to come up with better trade relationships\, and better trade programming in female-intensive industries in the developing world.
URL:https://group78.org/event/canadas-review-of-general-preferential-tariffs-feminism/
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SUMMARY:Webinar April 6 - The Role of Innovation and Technology in Feeding the Future
DESCRIPTION:Today the same technologies that brought us the Internet and are transforming medicine are reshaping food and farming systems. Smart tractors know where they are in the field and plant the right seed in the right place and give it the right amount of fertilizer\, robotic milkers boost productivity while maintaining herd health and reduce potentially harmful inputs such as antibiotics\, vertical farms that allow any crop to be produced anywhere anytime\, and alternative protein products that provide high-quality foodstuffs to consumers at a minimal environmental cost are all examples of innovation and technology that are helping us to feed the future. These technologies are all on the cusp of going mainstream and are talked about with breathless anticipation in the media.  \n\n\n\nJoin us for this webinar! Dr. Evan Fraser from the University of Guelph will provide a high-level overview of the potential for these technologies to create stronger and more resilient food systems while also reflecting on limitations\, barriers\, and bottlenecks. \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Evan Fraser  \n\n\n\nEvan is the Director of the Arrell Food Institute and a professor of Geography at the University of Guelph. There\, Evan works to bring large and diverse teams together to develop strategies that balance our need to produce and distribute accessible\, healthy\, and nutritious food while stewarding the ecosystems on which we all depend for life. He believes that it is only by building bridges between the corporate sector\, government\, civil society\, and academics that we will be able to create food systems fit for the challenges of the 21st century. \n\n\n\nAward-winning author\, Evan co-authored Empires of Food: Feast\, Famine and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations (with Andre Rimas)\, and Dinner on Mars: The Technologies That Will Feed the Red Planet and Transform Agriculture on Earth (co-authored with Lenore Newman). Evan’s graphic novel (#FoodCrisis) is a tool that is being used in classrooms around the world\, and his web series “feeding nine billion” has been watched over 600\,000 times. \n\n\n\nAs a researcher\, Evan is one of Canada’s most cited social scientists working on food and sustainability and between 2010-2020 was a Canada Research Chair. Between 2014-17 he was a Fellow of the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation\, he is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars. He sits on several boards that advise government\, industry\, and charities. This includes co-chairing the Canadian Food Policy Advisory Council and vice-chairing the Maple Leaf Centre for Action on Food Security.  \n\n\n\nModerated by: Roy Culpeper  \n\n\n\nRoy is a development economist\, an Honorary Senior Fellow of the University of Ottawa’s School of International Development and Global Studies\, an 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\, which focuses on international affairs and Canadian foreign policy. From January until May 2011 he was Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington\, D.C. From 1995 until 2010 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. Roy 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.
URL:https://group78.org/event/the-role-of-innovation-and-technology-in-feeding-the-future/
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SUMMARY:Webinar: The Energy Transition
DESCRIPTION:Learn about what the shift to a zero-carbon economy will look like (including debunking common myths)\, understand the major milestones we need to meet in Canada and get an overview of the different levers that can help us meet our goals. \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, SHIFT Director Adam Scott\,  IISD Senior Policy Advisor Nichole Dusyk\, and IISD Policy Analyst Zachary Repel will provide a clear and engaging introduction to the Energy Transition. This is critical for both seasoned activists and the climate curious to understand. \n\n\n\nOur speakers and chair: \n\n\n\nAdam Scott is a climate change expert with extensive domestic and international experience in policy\, energy and finance\, as well as campaign design and execution. He has a lifelong commitment to supporting the transition to a zero carbon economy in Canada. At Shift\, he works with wide-ranging stakeholders to bring international climate leadership into Canada’s financial sector.  \n\n\n\nNichole Dusyk is a senior policy advisor for IISD’s Energy program working on the Canadian Energy Transitions Team. The focus of her work is providing research and analysis to support a transition away from fossil fuels and toward a more just and sustainable energy system. \n\n\n\nZachary Repel is a policy analyst with IISD’s Energy Team working on carbon pricing strategies as well as international just transition implementation. \n\n\n\nRoy Culpeper is an Ottawa-based economist who has devoted his career to social justice issues. His work as a researcher and a public servant has focused on development in Canada and internationally. He is the volunteer Chair of the Group of 78 which works to advance the causes of peace\, justice\, and planetary survival.
URL:https://group78.org/event/webinar-the-energy-transition/
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SUMMARY:Webinar: What Can You Do to Green Canada's Financial System?
DESCRIPTION:Canada cannot achieve its climate goals without the full participation of the financial system. Canadians with bank accounts\, pension funds and/or insurance policies all have a vested interest in aligning this system with climate safety. Learn what financial actors are already doing\, what more needs to be done\, the role for regulation\, and what you can do. \n\n\n\nOur speakers and chair: \n\n\n\nAdam Scott is a climate change expert with extensive domestic and international experience in policy\, energy and finance\, as well as campaign design and execution. He has a lifelong commitment to supporting the transition to a zero carbon economy in Canada. At Shift\, he works with wide-ranging stakeholders to bring international climate leadership into Canada’s financial sector. \n\n\n\nJulie Segal Julie works as Senior Manager\, Climate Finance at Environmental Defence\, where she advances climate-related financial policy and regulation. She previously managed a portfolio of impact investments at the McConnell Foundation. She’s won national and global awards for her work integrating environmental justice into sustainable finance\, including winning First Prize Paper in the Ethics & Trust in Finance Global Prize. \n\n\n\nRoy Culpeper is an Ottawa-based economist who has devoted his career to social justice issues. His work as a researcher and a public servant has focused on development in Canada and internationally. He is the volunteer Chair of the Group of 78 which works to advance the causes of peace\, justice\, and planetary survival.
URL:https://group78.org/event/webinar-what-can-you-do-to-green-canadas-financial-system/
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SUMMARY:Watch the Webinar - What are the Prospects for Democracy in Latin America?
DESCRIPTION:Recent electoral victories by left-leaning leaders and parties mark another turn in the oscillations of Latin American politics\, but they also signal enduring changes. The electoral success of the left is a sign of both the durability of electoral democracy and the persistence of social pressures in highly unequal societies. \n\n\n\nJoin us for this webinar\, as Maxwell Cameron discusses how the electoral fates and governing strategies of leftist movements and parties reflect the conditions in which they emerged. He analyzes the political and organizational legacies of Cold War repression as well as the ways in which global events such as 9/11\, the commodity boom of the 2000s and its exhaustion\, the Covid-19 pandemic\, and the new global wave of progressive movements\, have shaped the ebb-and-flow of left-wing politics.  \n\n\n\nIs there a possibility for the construction of social democracy as an alternative to radical populist and right-wing oligarchical politics? Join us for this important discussion. \n\n\n\nOur speaker: Maxwell A. Cameron (PhD Berkeley 1989) specializes in comparative politics (Latin America)\, constitutionalism\, democracy\, and political ethics. He is the author or editor of a dozen academic books as well as over sixty peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.  \n\n\n\nOur moderator: Laura Macdonald is a Full Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University. She has published numerous articles in journals and edited collections on such issues as the role of non-governmental organizations in development\, global civil society\, social policies and citizenship struggles in Latin America\, Canadian development assistance\, Canada-Latin American relations and the political impact of North American economic integration. Her recent work looks at transnational activism in North America around labour rights\, migration\, and human rights in Mexico\, trade and gender\, and policies to reduce crime and violence in Mexico City. 
URL:https://group78.org/event/what-are-the-prospects-for-democracy-in-latin-america/
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SUMMARY:Watch the webinar: International Climate Finance  Perspectives from Canada and the Caribbean
DESCRIPTION:It has become clear over the past few decades that the poorest developing countries are suffering the worst devastation from the climate crisis\, in the form of droughts\, flooding\, and rising seas\, despite being the least responsible for global warming. While the need for financial support for developing countries\, particularly for climate change adaptation\, has been acknowledged\, financing from donor countries has chronically fallen short of UN targets. This webinar reviewed recent trends in climate financing for the poorest countries and recommended possible ways to resolve the financing shortfall. \n\n\n\nOur panelists and moderator: \n\n\n\nDr. Spencer Thomas\, Lead negotiator for climate change and biodiversity for Grenada\, is currently the Vice Chair of the Clean Development Mechanism of the UNFCCC and the technology coordinator of the Alliance of Small Island States. He is a former Financial Secretary and Economic Policy Adviser in the Ministry of Finance of Grenada. Dr. Thomas holds a doctorate in Energy Economics from Howard University\, master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Economics from Iowa State University and Howard University respectively\, and a post-doctoral master’s degree in Telecommunications Regulation and Policy from the University of the West Indies.  \n\n\n\nBrian Tomlinson is the Executive Director of AidWatch Canada\, which focuses on issues related to Canadian and global aid priorities as well as global trends in the development effectiveness of civil society organizations (CSOs). Brian is an adjunct professor in the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University. He facilitates several civil society Working Groups with the OECD Development Assistance Committee’s CSO Reference Group focusing on issues relating to donor policies and practices for Official Development Assistance (ODA). He retired in June 2011 as Senior Policy Analyst (Aid Policy) at the Canadian Council for International Co-operation (CCIC)\, the platform for Canadian CSOs in development cooperation\, where he worked for 16 years. \n\n\n\nJennifer Bansard (Moderator) is a political scientist with expertise in climate\, biodiversity\, and urban governance\, as well as the role of science in environmental governance. She works at the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU)\, which provides science-based advice on sustainability issues. Jennifer has an international academic education and holds Masters Degrees in Environment & Resource Management (VU Amsterdam\, Netherlands)\, International Relations (Sciences Po Aix\, France) and Applied Political Sciences (University of Freiburg\, Germany). She is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Potsdam. In her dissertation\, she examines the emergence of “blue carbon\,” a concept that refers to the carbon sequestration potential of coastal ecosystems\, such as mangroves\, seagrasses\, and salt marshes. 
URL:https://group78.org/event/watch-the-webinar-international-climate-finance-perspectives-from-canada-and-the-caribbean/
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SUMMARY:Watch the webinar: Inequities in the Global Financial System: Tackling the Looming Debt Crisis in the Global South
DESCRIPTION:As geopolitical shifts and emerging uncertainties continue to drive up debt servicing costs across the world\, with disproportionate impacts across poor and vulnerable countries\, economic systems in much of the Global South are under severe stress. From Sri Lanka and Ghana to Lebanon and Zambia\, tightening global financial conditions are wreaking havoc across several emerging markets and developing economies. The situation is particularly dire in the least developed countries\, with many countries in sub-Saharan Africa at high risk of debt distress. For instance\, in Africa’s most populous nation and largest economy\, Nigeria\, some estimates show parity between the cost of debt servicing and government’s retained revenue. Soaring interest rates\, rapid inflation\, slowing growth\, a strengthening dollar\, shrinking fiscal spaces\, and the cascading and connected crises are revealing stress points in the global financial architecture. To a large extent\, these dynamics underscore systemic inequities in the deeply flawed world economic order. To ensure the ongoing crisis does not erase years of development gains in the Global South\, a bold and urgent reform of the global financial system is key. While multilateralism and shared responsibility will continue to be relevant\, far-reaching reforms are needed to support structurally weak and vulnerable economies.    \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio  \n\n\n\nFred Olayele is a public policy leader\, professor\, and economist\, with expertise in trade policy\, innovation\, political economy\, and inclusive development. He has published and shared best practices in these areas in scholarly and popular sources globally. He holds a PhD in Economics from Lancaster University\, United Kingdom\, and an MA in Economics from the University of Victoria in British Columbia\, Canada. He is Director\, Sprott Centre for African Research and Business\, Sprott School of Business\, Carleton University. Dr. Olayele serves on various non-profit boards and supports many social causes. Among others\, he is President\, Economic Innovation Institute for Africa and member of the Academic Advisory Board\, Emerging Markets Institute at Cornell University.   \n\n\n\nChaired by Roy CulpeperRoy is a development economist\, 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\, which focuses on international affairs and Canadian foreign policy. From January until May 2011 he was Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington\, D.C. From 1995 until 2010 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. Roy 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. 
URL:https://group78.org/event/inequities-in-the-global-financial-system-tackling-the-looming-debt-crisis-in-the-global-south/
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SUMMARY:Watch the webinar: Anti-Inflation Policy\, Green Finance\, and the Climate Crisis
DESCRIPTION:In 2009\, a paper in Nature attempted to calculate how much of the world’s reserves of oil\, gas\, and coal would have to stay in the ground to hold rates of climate change to tolerable levels. Financiers and investors quickly realized the shattering implications: Companies and countries that thought they were sitting on the energy equivalent of goldmines were likely really holding worthless stranded assets.  \n\n\n\n​Soon a lively discussion started over the role central banks and financial regulators should play in making companies and countries acknowledge the reality of the climate crisis. But this discussion occurred in a long period of very low-interest rates. The recent turn to much higher interest rates by central banks to combat inflation along with a renewed emphasis on reining in government spending are now combining with a swing in policy toward LNG by the United States and other countries to bring climate policy to a fateful crossroads.  \n\n\n\n​This talk outlines what is at stake.   \n\n\n\nOur speaker:  \n\n\n\nThomas Ferguson is Director of Research at the Institute for New Economic Thinking\, Senior Fellow at Better Markets\, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts\, Boston. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and taught formerly at MIT and the University of Texas\, Austin. He is the author or coauthor of several books\, including Golden Rule (University of Chicago Press\, 1995) and Right Turn (Hill & Wang\, 1986). His articles have appeared in many scholarly journals\, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics\, the Journal of Economic History\, International Organization\, and International Studies Quarterly. He is Contributing Editor to The Nation and a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Political Economy.  \n\n\n\nModerator: \n\n\n\nMario Seccareccia is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Economics at the University of Ottawa\, where he taught full-time since 1978 courses in macroeconomics\, monetary theory\, history of economic thought\, labour economics\, and economic history\, among others\, until his retirement in 2018. He is author to some 130 academic titles in scholarly journals or book chapters; he has also authored or edited a dozen books. Furthermore\, he is editor or co-editor of approximately 50 special issues of journals on numerous themes in political economy. He has ben visiting professor at various universities in France (Université de Bourgogne\, Université de Grenoble\, Université Paris 13\, and Université Paris-Sud) and Mexico (National Autonomous University of Mexico). Research Associate at the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives and\, since 2004\, editor of the International Journal of Political Economy\, an interdisciplinary journal published by Taylor & Francis focused on national and International Policy issues. Winner of the 2021 John Kenneth Galbraith Prize in Economics from the Progressive Economics Forum. He holds a doctorate in economics from McGill University.  \n\n\n\nOur Host \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 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.
URL:https://group78.org/event/anti-inflation-policy-green-finance-and-the-climate-crisis/
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SUMMARY:Click here: Conference Registration & Program Info
DESCRIPTION:We warmly invite you to join our dialog for our 2023 Annual Policy Conference from September 25 to October 2.  Our theme is Preventing & Stopping Violence: Effective Actions to Curtail Conflict. For full information please click the button below. \n\n\n\n\nConference Information
URL:https://group78.org/event/g78-policy-conference-registration-and-program-information/
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SUMMARY:Unaffordable Housing: Market Failure or Market Success
DESCRIPTION:Join us on January 31\, 2024 for our first webinar of the New Year. Ricardo Tranjan and David MacDonald will discuss whether the current housing market is a failure or a success concerning how it impacts access to affordable\, accessible housing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRicardo Tranjan’s 2023 bestseller book\, The Tenant Class\, has generated much attention and controversy in public policy circles. A core argument in his book and other writings is that There is No Housing Crisis. “The rental housing market is designed to funnel income from working-class families to the property-owning class\, and as far as this goal is concerned\, it works like a charm.”  \n\n\n\nIn this talk\, Ricardo will present the theoretical and historical foundations of his argument and make the case for the need to re-politicize the housing question. He will share stories about social movement building across Canada\, highlighting the little support the tenant class receives from established civil society organizations. His presentation will set the stage for a discussion about what it means for housing advocates to go on the offensive\, a call he made in his most recent Policy Options op-ed. \n\n\n\nRicardo Tranjan is a political economist and senior researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Previously\, Tranjan managed Toronto’s Poverty Reduction Strategy and briefly taught at universities in Ontario and Quebec. His early academic work focused on economic development in Brazil\, his native country. His current research is on the political economy of social policy in Canada. He is the author of two books: a scholarly analysis of Participatory Democracy in Brazil (University of Notre Dame Press\, 2015) and the national bestseller The Tenant Class (Between the Lines\, 2023). Ricardo holds a PhD from the University of Waterloo\, where he was a Vanier Scholar. A frequent media commentator in English and French\, he lives in Ottawa. X: @ricardo_tranjan \n\n\n\nDavid MacDonald will moderate this discussion with Ricardo Tranjan. David joined the CCPA as its Senior Ottawa Economist in 2011\, although he has been a long-time contributor as a research associate. Since 2008\, he has coordinated the Alternative Federale Budget\, which takes a fresh look at the federal budget from a progressive perspective. David has also written on a variety of topics\, from child care to income inequality to federal fiscal policy. He is a regular commentator on national policy issues\, often speaking to the CBC\, Globe and Mail\, Toronto Star\, and Canadian Press.  \n\n\n\nClick the button below to register to join us. \n\n\n\n\nRegister for Affordable Housing Webinar
URL:https://group78.org/event/unaffordable-housing-market-failure-or-market-success/
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SUMMARY:Climate Change\, Love\, and Seniors
DESCRIPTION:Tired of beating your head against the table when talking about climate change and climate action with the seniors in your life? \n\n\n\nJoin us\, April 30\, 2024 at 1:00 ET for a webinar to learn how to communicate the urgency of our climate crisis and how we can most effectively affect change together from Dr. Louise Comeau. \n\n\n\nDr. Louise Comeau is a Senior Advisor at Re.Climate\, Carleton University’s centre for climate change communications and public engagement. She is also a member of the federal Net Zero Advisory Body. Louise has more than 30 years’ experience in climate change policy\, communications\, and solutions-related advocacy and programming. \n\n\n\nSusan Tanner\, Vice-President of G78 and CCEWG Chair\, will moderate the discussion. While previously holding positions in both the Federal and Ontario governments Susan has maintained an active role in community organisations as both a board and staff member.  She represented Friends of the Earth at the 1992 UNCED in Rio and in 1995\, Friends of the Earth Canada accepted a UNEP award for work on the Montreal Protocol done under her leadership. While serving as executive Director (2007-10) Canadian Environmental Network\, Susan was honoured as a United Nations Association of Canada “Championne” for her work on human rights and environment. Susan holds a Master of Environmental Studies and a Master of Law\, is a member of the Ontario Bar\, has consulted in the private sector on sustainability\, and taught as a sessional lecturer at Carleton University. \n\n\n\n\nRegister for Climate Change\, Love\, and Seniors
URL:https://group78.org/event/climate-change-love-and-seniors/
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