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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.
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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.
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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
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