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SUMMARY:June 8\, 2021 Recording - Public Funding for Fossil Fuels: From Part of the Problem to Part of the Solution
DESCRIPTION:Webinar Notice (Pdf)\nJune 8\, 2021 at 1:00pm EDT (GMT -0400) \n\n \nSpeakers: \n\nVanessa Corkal\nMitchell Beer\n\n Moderator:  \n\nRieky Stuart\n\nOutline: \nWe will be discussing the nature and extent of funding from governments in Canada (federal and provincial) for fossil fuel production. Funding comes in different guises—including direct financing\, loan insurance\, subsidies and tax breaks. Our contention is that these various sources of financing should be identified and phased out as quickly as possible and reallocated to green technology and renewable energy. \nSpeakers: \nVanessa Corkal is a policy analyst with the International Institute for Sustainable Development\, where she focuses on fossil fuel subsidies\, just transition\, and green recovery. She combines her expertise in climate change mitigation with over nine years of documentary\, journalism and non-profit experience. Previous work experiences include climate change research\, communications and project management for the Prairie Climate Centre (University of Winnipeg) and the First Nation Adapt program (Crown-Indigenous Relations & Northern Affairs\, Government of Canada). She holds a Master of Climate Change from the University of Waterloo. \nMitchell Beer is Publisher of The Energy Mix\, a thrice-weekly e-digest on climate change\, energy\, and a carbon-free future. He traces his work on renewable energy to 1977\, on climate change to 1997\, and gave a TEDx Ottawa talk in October 2019 on how to build wider public demand for rapid decarbonization. A proudest moment was building a model wind turbine out of wood stir sticks with his then-11-year-old daughter\, and improv comedy practices are often the best part of his week. \nModerator \nRieky Stuart is a part-time consultant on organizational change and gender equality with UN organizations\, governments and NGOs. Her last staff position was as Executive Director of Oxfam Canada\, and she also worked as Deputy Director of the Canadian Council for International Cooperation and taught at St. Francis Xavier University’s Coady Institute. She has been a volunteer teacher\, consultant and Board member\, and is currently affiliated with Gender at Work and with Climate Legacy. \n  \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.
URL:https://group78.org/event/public-funding-for-fossil-fuels-from-part-of-the-problem-to-part-of-the-solution/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Climate Legacy":MAILTO:climatelegacycanada@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:June 16\, 2021 Recording - Global Vaccine Inequity: a Tale of two pandemics
DESCRIPTION:Event Summary:\n\n\n\nCOVID19 has shone a harsh light on the pre-existing social and economic inequities among and within countries.  It has also used in the defining challenge of our time: vaccine equity.  This can be addressed with dollars\, dose sharing\, and domestic manufacturing.  Ultimately COVID-19 vaccine sustainable equity and regional security will depend on domestic production supported by sharing of technology\, know-how and intellectual property.  This is the world’s Mandela moment:  it always seems impossible until its done! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBio:\n\n\n\n\nDr Peter Singer is Special Advisor to the Director General\, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus\, and Assistant Director General of the World Health Organization. He supports the Director General to transform WHO into an Organization sharply focused on impact at the country level. Dr Singer co-chaired the transition team; was the architect of WHO’s strategy and its “triple billion” target; supports colleagues to guide consistent strategy implementation of WHO’s programme budget\, results framework\, delivery stock-takes\, investment case\, and innovation strategy; and provides leadership to the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Wellbeing to strengthen collaboration among 13 multilateral agencies to accelerate the health-related Sustainable Development Goals. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nBefore joining WHO\, Dr. Peter Singer co-founded two innovative\, results driven\, social impact organizations. From 2008-2018 Singer was Chief Executive Officer of Grand Challenges Canada. During this period Grand Challenges Canada raised CAN $450M to support 1000 innovations in more than 90 countries\, which have the potential to save 450\,000-1.6 million lives and improve 11-35 million lives by 2030. From 1996-2006 he was Sun Life Financial Chair and Director of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics. He is also Professor of Medicine at University of Toronto. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nIn 2007\, Dr. Singer received the Michael Smith Prize as Canada’s Health Researcher of the Year in Population Health and Health Services. In 2011\, Singer was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada for his contributions to health research and bioethics\, and for his dedication to improving the health of people in developing countries. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada\, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (where he was Foreign Secretary)\, U.S. National Academy of Medicine\, and The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS). \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAs a researcher\, Dr. Singer published over 300 articles\, received over $50 million in research grants\, and mentored hundreds of students. He studied internal medicine at University of Toronto\, medical ethics at University of Chicago\, public health at Yale University\, and management at Harvard Business School. He served his community as Board Chair of Branksome Hall\, an internationally minded school for girls. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\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. https://group78.org/
URL:https://group78.org/event/global-vaccine-inequity-a-tale-of-two-pandemics/
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