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SUMMARY:It's not enough: How successful communities fight Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \nThe shock of the COVID-19 pandemic provides an excellent opportunity to transition to low-carbon\, energy efficient communities through the use of stimulus funding and legislation.\nWell over 400 communities in Canada\, and over 50 in Ontario\, have completed Community Energy Plans. Many of them are now demonstrating continuing implementation efforts driven by aggressive GHG (greenhouse gas) and energy efficiency targets coupled with community demands for climate emergency declarations. \nIn two separate webinars we will look at; what other successful Ontario communities are doing and then explore best practices from around the world. We are honoured to have two leading experts in this field –  Rob Kerr and Dr. Karen Farbridge – as our guests. \n  \nRegistration is necessary for attending these events: you have to register for each event separately by visiting the corresponding registration links: \n\nWhat Other Ontario Cities Are Doing – Rob Kerr – Sep 15 \,2020 @7:00 PM\nCanadian and Global Best Practices – Dr. Karen Farbridge – Sep 23 \,2020 @7:00 PM\n\n  \nWhat Other Ontario Cities Are Doing – Rob Kerr\n7:00 PM on Tuesday Sep 15 \,2020 \nThis webinar will look at what other successful Ontario communities are doing to drive climate and energy action. Rob will explore how they are establishing the building blocks necessary to achieve the benefits of reaching ambitious climate targets. \nCanadian and Global Best Practices – Dr. Karen Farbridge\n7:00 PM on Wednesday Sep 23\, 2020 \nDr. Farbridge will provide insight into the best practices that have emerged over the last decade of community energy planning in Canada and globally and how they are accelerating the transition to a low-carbon and energy efficient economies. \n \n\nAbout Our Speakers\nRob Kerr\nRob’s 40-year career focuses on transitioning society to a low carbon economy while reducing the impacts of climate change. He does this through policy development and implementation of projects and programs in the municipal and community space. \nTo get there\, he wears many hats including: Senior Associate with QUEST\, Canada’s leading organization in advocating for Smart Energy Communities\, Managing Director of Garforth International Canada Inc. and his independent consultancy – Robert J. Kerr + Associates. \nHis work experience has been a balance between the private and public sector\, having worked with the Honeywell\, Hydro Quebec\, Toronto Hydro Energy Services Inc.\, and Energy Advantage. Rob has held senior positions at ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability providing policy and program support to cities around the world committed to mitigation and adaptation activities related to climate change. There\, he developed expertise in managing inter-governmental relationships – from his advocacy work at the global level (starting with the UN Climate Conference in Kyoto\, Japan in 1997) – to ongoing advisory relationships with the Canadian federal and provincial governments as well as the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. He has also worked with the cities of Mississauga and of course Guelph. \nDr. Karen Farbridge\nDr. Farbridge has over 25 years of experience in change-making in the non-profit\, public\, and private sectors. She went from grassroots organizing with her early work at the Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG)\, to a PhD in Zoology\, and then she became the first female Mayor in Guelph\, after spending years on City Council. \nShe has a longstanding passion for building sustainable and resilient communities. She has been a leader in various community innovation projects including smart growth\, downtown revitalization\, open government\, neighbourhood development\, community wellbeing\, resource and natural heritage protection\, community energy and municipal governance. She is a respected speaker who has worked to educate on matters of urban interest and community resiliency to broad and diverse audiences both locally and internationally. \nKaren is an urban connector that helps communities and governments across the country fight climate change in practical and achievable ways. \nDr. Karen Farbridge received the eMERGE Climate Change Hero award in 2019.
URL:https://emergeguelph.ca/event/it-is-not-enough-how-successful-communities-fight-climate-change/
LOCATION:Online\, eMERGE  \, ON\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Ontario: undermining Guelph's Climate Goals
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \nOntario: undermining Guelph’s Climate Goals \nExamining the alternatives  \nWe need a Guelph City Council resolution. \nOntario’s proposed gas plants expansion – and associated greenhouse gas emissions- will undermine Guelph’s climate change goals. It will also significantly reverse the pollution reductions achieved by shutting down coal plants. There are alternatives. \nIn light of the climate emergency acknowledged by Guelph City Council\, groups in Guelph (see list below) are joining forces with organizations across Ontario to demand the province reduce\, not increase\, fossil fuel generated power. We urge City Council to pass a resolution\, compatible with our emission reduction goals and with Council’s previous resolution supporting a phase-out of coal-generated electricity. \n_______________________________________________________________________ \nJoin us as we host Jack Gibbons from the Ontario Clean Air Alliance. \nThis webinar will shed a light on how Guelph can once again lead in fighting climate change. Our city was at the forefront during the coal phase out. Now we need to do the same with gas plants. \nJack Gibbons from the Ontario Clean Air Alliance\, will draw a road map on how we can exploit new alternative cost effective clean energy sources that will generate economic and social wealth. He will advocate how transitioning away from fossil fuels to a renewable energy economy has clear benefits for people and natural ecosystems. We have an opportunity to create a more prosperous\, healthy and equitable society. \n_______________________________________________________________________ \nAbout Our Speaker\n \nJack Gibbons| Chair of the Ontario Air Alliance\nJack Gibbons is Chair of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance. Jack has worked on energy and environmental issues in Ontario for more than 40 years. His previous positions include: Economist\, Energy Probe; Project Manager\, Ontario Energy Board; Senior Economic Advisor\, Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy; and Commissioner\, Toronto Hydro.  \nJack has studied economics at the University of Toronto (B.A.)\, Queen’s University (M.A.) and the University of British Columbia. \n_______________________________________________________________________ \nOrganizations in support of the City of Guelph taking bold action against more climate change pollution are listed below. \n\nCouncil of Canadians-Guelph Chapter\neMERGE Guelph\nExtinction Rebellion Guelph\nGuelph Green New Deal\nGuelph Wellington Social Justice Coalition\nKAIROS Guelph\nOntario Clean Air Alliance\nTransition Guelph\nWellington Water Watchers\n\n___________________________________
URL:https://emergeguelph.ca/event/ontario-undermining-guelphs-climate-goals/
LOCATION:Online\, eMERGE  \, ON\, Canada
ORGANIZER;CN="eMERGE Guelph":MAILTO:rasha@emergeguelph.ca
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