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SUMMARY:Dec. 1st\, Part 2 of 2: Finance\, Climate Risk\, and How to Make your Pension Fund Climate-Friendly
DESCRIPTION:Registration through Eventbrite\nTicket options:\n\n\nFree \n\n\n$10.00 – Suggested per webinar\n\n\nOnline Registration \n  \nWebinars are co-hosted by the Climate Legacy and Group of 78\n In partnership with SHIFT and the First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa\nDownload Event PDF\n  \nThe crucial importance of shifting finance to address the climate crisis (webinar 1)\nNovember 24\, 2020. 1-2 pm ET \n\nWhere money is being invested in the global economy is an often overlooked\, but critical piece of the puzzle in solving the climate crisis. Join climate expert Adam Scott\, Director of Shift: Action for Pension Wealth & Planet Health for the first of two workshops exploring why shifting finance is essential for addressing the climate emergency and protecting investments from growing climate risks.\n  \nHow to engage those managing your retirement savings on climate (webinar 2)\nDecember 1\, 2020. 1-2 ET\nLearn how to take action to ensure your retirement savings are being invested in the solutions to the climate crisis\, not the causes. Join climate expert Adam Scott\, Director of Shift: Action for Pension Wealth & Planet Health for part two of our series exploring ways to effectively engage your pension fund and shift your personal investments to protect your savings while leaving a lasting climate legacy for future generations.\n  \nAdam Scott\, Director\, Shift: Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health\nAdam is a climate change expert with more than 15 years of domestic and international experience in climate policy\, energy and finance. As Director of Shift\, he works with a broad range of stakeholders to bring international climate leadership into Canada’s financial sector. Previously\, Adam was Senior Advisor to international climate research and advocacy organization Oil Change International and was manager of Environmental Defence Canada’s Climate & Energy Program. Adam has advised governments\, provided expert media commentary\, and published numerous reports on the zero-carbon transition.\n\nClimate Legacy – About Us\nClimate Legacy is a project to engage and mobilize older Canadians in climate action\, through their voice\, their time\, and their money. Our vision is that Canada move steadily and effectively towards a zero net carbon economy in the next decade through actions at municipal\, provincial and federal levels. Seniors comprise a significant force in combatting climate change and are often overlooked in current mobilizing efforts\, which is why we are establishing a climate action platform and resource dedicated to Older Canadians. Please contact climatelegacycanada@gmail.com to get in touch.\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.
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SUMMARY:Book Launch - Recovery: Peace Prospects in the Biden Era\, by Douglas Roche\,
DESCRIPTION:The Hon. Douglas Roche\, O.C. will discuss his newly released book\, Recovery: Peace Prospects in the Biden Era.\n \nThis event is hosted by Group of 78\, in collaboration with PeaceQuest\nSpeakers:\n\n\nWelcoming remarks by Roy Culpeper\, Chair\, Group of 78\n\n\nModeration by Steve Staples\, Chairperson\, PeaceQuest Leadership and Education Initiative \n\n\nPresentation by Senator Douglas Roche (ret.)\, Canada’s former UN Ambassador for Disarmament and author of Recovery: Peace Prospects in the Biden Era\n\n\nAudience questions and discussion\nOrder your advance copy of\, Recovery: Peace Prospects in the Biden Era\, by Douglas Roche:\n $9.99 Kindle | $14.99 Paperback \nAvailable from: https://amzn.to/3oaEHLC\nHumanity faces a triple emergency: the global problems of climate change\, nuclear weapons\, and the coronavirus are monumental. Cooperation between governments and peoples has never been so necessary for common survival. The election of Joe Biden as U.S. president opens a new path for world cooperation for peace. In this up-to-the-minute book\, former Senator Douglas Roche\, a leading Canadian advocate for peace\, points to a new basis for hope in the urgent agenda for human security. The world – and Canada – must: \n\n\nspur development \n\n\ncurb global warming \n\n\ncut nuclear arms\n\n\n advance human rights\n\n\n\n“As our world begins to recover\, we will need the guidance of learned peacemakers. Recovery brings. Joe Biden and Douglas Roche together\, providing critical insights for years to come.” -Lieutenant-General (ret) The Honourable Romeo Dallaire\n\n“Extremely timely\, thoughtful\, deeply informed analysis of Joe Bidon the man and the president he may be.” -ElizabethMay M.P.\, former Leader\, Green Party of Canada\n\n“Brimming witJ1 political practically and generous humanity.” -Ernie Regehr\, former Executive Director; Project Ploughshares\n\nHon. Douglas Roche\, O.C.\, has specialized throughout his 40-year public career in peace and human security issues. Mr. Roche was a Senator\, Member of Parliament\, Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament\, and Visiting Professor at the University of Alberta. He was elected Chairman of the United Nations Disarmament Committee at the 43rd General Assembly in 1988.Mr. Roche was the founding Chairman of the Middle Powers Initiative. In 2010\, the City of Hiroshima named him an Honourary Citizen. He was awarded the Calgary Peace Prize in 2017. The author of 23 books\, his latest is Recovery: Peace Prospects in the Biden Era.
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