Climate Change and Canadian Public Policy: Adaptation and Action Conference
Climate change is happening.
Cutting GHG emissions isn't the whole story -
We also need to adapt to a climate that is changing.
We need leadership, inter-governmental cooperation and pragmatic solutions - to adapt and to act. It takes years to respond to complex challenges. To deal with tomorrow's changes we need to build resilience today.
How will institutions adapt to climate change? What are the innovations ? What adaptation is most urgent? Canadian and international researchers, experts and government leaders will share their insights about effective public policy tools and networks: the focus will be on the issues that our communities need to address - infrastructure, health, food, water, insurance, risk and legal liabilities.
SPEAKERS INCLUDE
Professor Andrew Weaver
Author, Keeping Our Cool
Climatologist, University of Victoria
Hon. John Gerretsen
Minister of Environment, Ontario
Rob MacIsaac
Chair, Metrolinx
Graham Whitmarsh
Head, Climate Change Secretariat, B.C.
Dr Günther Bachmann
Director, German Council for Sustainable Development
Paul Kovacs
Executive Director, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction
Ron Dembo
CEO, Zerofootprint
Eva Ligeti
Ontario's first Environment Commissioner, Clean Air Partnership
Hon. John Godfrey
Federal Sustainable Development Act, 2008
Ian Burton and David Pearson
Co-chairs Ontario's Expert Panel on Climate Change and Adaptation
Alain Bourque
OURANOS
Lawson Oates
Director, Environment Office, City of Toronto
Jenny Fraser
Ministry of Environment, Climate Change Adaptation, BC
Dr. Pierre Gosselin
Institut national de santé publique du Québec, Ouranos, and Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec
Quentin Chiotti
Pollution Probe
Prof. Rob de Loë
University of Waterloo
Wendy Potomski
Sustainable Business Solutions, PwC
Dianne Saxe
Saxe Law Office
Judith Guernsey
Dalhousie University
Philip de Waal
Counsellor, Economic and Commercial, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Dr Donald Lemmen
Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Directorate, Natural Resources Canada
Chris Jones
Vice-President Public Affairs, Tourism Industry Association of Canada
Marcel Gaucher
Director, Bureau des changements climatiques, Min du Dévelopement durable, de l'Environment et des Parcs, Québec
Ian Church
Senior Science Advisor, Yukon Government and International Polar Year
Keith Neuman
Vice President, Environics Research Group
Prof. Graham White
Chair IPAC Research Committee, and University of Toronto
David Greenall
Ottawa Practice Leader, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability/Enterprise Risk, Deloitte and Touche LLP
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