Maison du
développment durable 50 Sainte-Catherine Street W. Montreal
Climate Action Network
Canada – Réseau action climat Canada (CAN-Rac) in collaboration with Équiterre
and other CAN-Rac member organizations, is holding a national conference to highlight and promote
leading climate change and clean energy practices and policies, by provincial
and territorial governments, in Canada.
A
handful of provincial and territorial governments are at the forefront of the
fight against climate change in Canada. Policies such as Ontario’s Feed-in
Tariff, British Columbia’s carbon tax, and Quebec’s emission reduction targets,
are models for other provinces while being sources of inspiration for
individuals and organizations across the country.
Climate Action Network Canada will
bring together leading climate change advocates from across Canada to highlight
these cutting edge practices and policies and identify how they can best be
applied in other provinces. The conference will include
a series of workshops on key elements of provincial climate change practices
and policy.
Attendance and space is limited therefore RSVP is NECESSARY. Please contact Lauryn Drainie at . Space for participants is available on a first come, first served basis.
Agenda
Tuesday, November 1:
Time:
Agenda
7:30am:
Registration and Refreshments
8:30am
Opening address by Pierre Arcand, Qc Environment
Minister, with an introduction by a representative of the CAN-Rac Board of
Directors
9am
Welcome and Agenda Overview
9:40am
Workshop I: Beyond coal and gas: getting fossil
fuels out of our electricity supply
The Ontario
coal phase-out
Nova
Scotia’s zero net emissions policy
Speakers:
Jack Gibbons, Ontario Clean Air Alliance
Catherine Abreu, Ecology Action Centre
Zoe Caron, World Wildlife Fund (moderator)
9:40am
Workshop
II: Public Power: Public sector
leadership in delivering climate change and new energy solutions.
Quebec's 4000 MW of clean energy
Manitoba's geothermal program
Quebec's infrastructure program for biomethane and composting of organic matter
Speakers:
Dan McInnis, Assistant Deputy Minister, Climate Change, Manitoba Conservation Department
Lois Morrison, Manitoba Hydro
Kim Cornelissen, AQLPA
Jean Francois Nolet, Canadian Wind Energy Association (Invited)
Gaile Whelan Enns, Manitoba Wildlands (Moderator)
9:40am
Workshop III: Local actions, global change: how
municipalities are leading the way.
Montreal
& Vancouver
Speakers:
Alex Boston, HB Lanarc
Dan Stone, Town of East Gwillimbury
Marie-Helene Labrie, Enerken
Yvan Rheault, City of Montreal, Environment and Sustainable Development
Ian Bruce, David Suzuki Foundation (Moderator)
11:45am
Lunch
1:00pm
Workshop IV: Spurring innovation and energy-efficiency by pricing carbon pollution.
B.C. Carbon
Tax
The Western
Climate Initiative
Speakers
The Hon Stéphane Dion, Member of Parliament, Saint Lauren-Cartierville
Ian Bruce, David Suzuki
Foundation
Angus McAllister, President, McAllister Opinion Research
Matt Horne, Pembina Institute (Moderator)
1:00pm
Workshop V: Feed-in tariffs are driving a clean
energy revolution
Ontario’s
feed-in tariff
Nova
Scotia’s feed-in tariff
Speakers:
Brendan Haley, Ph.D, Sustainable Energy Policy in Canada
Brent Kopperson, Windfall Ecology Centre
Adam Scott, Environmental Defence(Moderator)
1:00pm
Workshop VI: Building better buildings
Provincial
best practices in building better buildings.
This workshop will feature a tour of the Maison du
Developpement Durable
Speakers:
Roger Peter, Senior Advisor, Pembina Institute
Green Building Council (Invited)
Phil Jago, Office of Energy Efficiency, Natural Resources
Canada
Representative of the Maison du Developpement Durable
3:00pm
Break
3:30pm
Workshop VII: Ending oil: Electric vehicles &
public transit.
Ontario,
B.C., and Quebec’s public transit and electrification of vehicles plans
Speakers:
Cherise Burda, Pembina Institute (Moderator)
Mike Elwood, Electric Mobility Canada
The Honourable Jamie Nicholls, MP, NDP
Deputy Critic for Transportation
Andrea Peart, Canadian Labour Congress - Congrès
du travail du Canada
Hydro Québec (Invited)
3:30pm
Workshop VIII: Energy efficiency first!
Manitoba
Power Smart
Efficiency
Nova Scotia
Efficiency
New Brunswick
Speakers:
Brennan Vogel, Ecology Action Centre (Moderator)
Allan Crandlemire, Efficiency Nova Scotia
David Coon, Conservation Council of New Brunswick
Philippe Dunsky, Dunsky Energy Consulting
Brendan Haley, PhD Candidate, Sustainable Energy Policy in
Canada
Lois Morrison, Manitoba Hydro
3:30pm
Workshop IX: Protecting ecosystems and boreal
regions, and preserving carbon sinks
Ontario Far
North Act
Manitoba
protection of boreal forest regions
Speakers:
Chris Henschel, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
Gaile Whelan-Enns, Manitoba Wildlands
Dan McInnis, Assistant Deputy Minister, Climate Change, Manitoba Conservation Department
5:30pm
Wrap up and/or break before reception
6:00pm
Reception: A reception will be help in the main hall of the Maison du
Developpement Durable, which features a five story green wall.
Wednesday, November 2
8:30am
Refreshments
9:00am
Plenary session: Based on the key lessons learned from the previous day’s
workshops, we will hold an open discussion to identify policies that are most
likely to be transferable to other jurisdictions and identify where there is
interest among participants in working together to promote policy uptake.
9:45am
Breakout groups to discuss follow-up strategies: According to their interests, participants will
divide into small groups to discuss concrete ways of encourage the broader
adoption of a specific provincial climate change policy or practice.
10:45
Break
11am
Discussion
of the CAN-Rac Strategic Directions Paper – This session is for representatives of members of
Climate Action Network Canada only.
12pm
Lunch
1pm
Climate
Action Network Canada Annual General Meeting – This session is for
representatives of members of Climate Action Network Canada only (conference
closes at 4pm).
More than 95 clean
energy and climate change advocates from 9 provinces and territories have already confirmed.
Attendance and space is limited therefore RSVP is NECESSARY. Please contact Lauryn Drainie at . Space for participants is available on a first come, first served basis.
A note regarding translation:
Since many of Climate
Action Network member organizations will be coming-in from outside of Quebec,
the conference will take place in both French and English. Simultaneous
translation will be available at all times in the main conference room
(therefore, all plenary sessions and at least one workshop at all times will
have simultaneous translation). However, more informal approaches to translation
will be relied on in some workshops when multiple rooms are being used.
For further information, please contact
Lauryn Drainie, Lead Organizer, Climate Action Network Canada
How Canada Compares with Other Countries on Climate Action
The 2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) The index ranks 163 countries on 25 performance indicators tracked across ten policy categories covering both environmental public health and ecosystem vitality. These indicators provide a gauge at a national government scale of how close countries are to established environmental policy goals.
The EPI’s proximity-to-target methodology facilitates cross-country comparisons as well as analysis of how the global community is doing collectively on each particular policy issue.
The Climate Competitiveness Index 2010 The Climate Competitiveness Index 2010, a product of the independent institute AccountAbility and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), presents the an analysis of progress towards the Green economy.
The Climate Change Performance Index - 2010 This year’s bottom-of-the-barrel finishers were Canada and Saudi Arabia. Because Canada's government delayed the announcement of any major new climate policies, it remained in second-to-last place for the second year in a row.
Falling Behind: Canada's Lost Clean Energy Jobs This report, produced by Environmental Defence Canada and the United Steelworkers, examines clean energy investments made by Canada's federal government and by U.S. President Obama.
The report looks at support for renewable energy, greener transportation and energy efficiency.
Who's On Board With The Copenhagen Accord? January 31, 2010 marked the deadline for parties of the Copenhagen Accord to submit their respective plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
USCAN is tracking media reports and UNFCCC submissions on how countries are engaging with the accord and associated emissions reduction commitments.
