Event Date: March 26, 2015 - 6:15 pm
Location: FSS4004, 120 Université Privé , Ottawa
Presented by the Institute for the Environment, the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) and CIPS.
Free. In English with bilingual question period. Registration is required. Seating is limited and available on a first come, first served basis. Food and beverages will be provided. Chatham House Rules apply.
Panelists will discuss Canadian provinces’ actions against climate change, what it means for us and our common future.
PANELISTS:
Brian Murray, Visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Institute of the Environment at the University of Ottawa, Director of the Environmental Economics Program at Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions.
Nathalie Chalifour, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Co-Director of the Centre for Environmental Law and Global Sustainability, Director of the Graduate Program in Environmental Sustainability at the Institute of the Environment, and member of the Advisory Committee to the uOttawa Ecojustice Clinic and helped found the Secretariat for the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law.
Nicholas Rivers, Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, Chairof the Canada Research Chair in Climate and Energy Policy at the University of Ottawa, where he teaches in the Institute of the Environment as well as the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.
Amin Asadollahi is the oilsands program director at the Pembina Institute. Prior to joining Pembina, Amin held senior advisory positions at Natural Resources Canada and Environment Canada.
Moderator: Velma McColl, Principal at Earnscliffe Strategy Group.