Senior Fellow Luncheon – The Role of Municipalities in Addressing Climate Action
With extreme weather disasters multiplying while provincial governments drag their feet, municipal climate leadership is more important than ever. Join us to explore how a peer to peer network of municipal councillors and mayors, coupled with federal government funding, are unlocking municipal climate action across Canada. Plus, how much more they could do with strong public support. Don’t miss Rik Logtenberg (Climate Caucus), Matt Gemmel (Federation of Canadian Municipalities) and Gabriella Kalapos (Clean Air Partnership)’s conversation with moderator Senior Fellow Dianne Saxe.
You can watch the panel discussion online at 1:00pm.
Registration deadline: Friday, November 19th at 5:00PM ET
To attend in person, registration is required.
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Speakers
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Dianne SaxeSenior Fellow, former Environmental Commissioner of OntarioDr. Dianne Saxe is one of Canada’s most respected environmental lawyers, with a Clean50 award, a Ph.D. in Law, a Law Society Medal and many other awards. She was a popular Environmental Commissioner of Ontario, reporting to the Legislature on environment, energy and climate. She now heads SaxeFacts, hosts the Green Economy Heroes podcast, is Deputy Leader of the Ontario Green Party, is Green Party candidate in University-Rosedale and is a Massey College Senior Fellow.
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Gabriella KalaposExecutive Director, Clean Air Partnership
Gabriella Kalapos has advocated for local government action on advancing sustainable communities for more than 25 years through her work at the Toronto Environmental Alliance, ICLEI-Cities for Climate Protection campaign, and currently as executive director at the Clean Air Partnership. Her focus has been to encourage, support and monitor implementation of clean air and climate change actions, and to build partnerships that enable collaboration among communities and all levels of government. Gabriella has a bachelor of science in environmental geography from Concordia University and a master’s degree in environment and business from the University of Waterloo.
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Rik LogtenbergBC City Councillor, Founder of the Climate Caucus
Rik Logtenberg is a Nelson, BC City Councillor and the founder of the Climate Caucus, a network of 450+ councillors and mayors from across Canada focused on climate action. He’s also a member of the BC Municipal Climate Leadership Council and the UBCM Climate Action Committee, where he works on municipal and provincial climate policy. Rik is a software developer and entrepreneur with patents in community organizing technology and is the creator of EarthNet.
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Matt GemmelDirector of Policy and Research, Federation of Canadian Municipalities
As Director of Policy and Research at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, Matt Gemmel leads FCM’s advocacy on federal climate policy, helping to unlock the role that local governments can play to achieve Net Zero by 2050. As a result of these efforts, earlier this year FCM succeeded in securing a $2.7 billion commitment from the federal government to support municipal efforts to electrify transit buses. Prior to FCM, Matt served as an advisor to the Premier of Manitoba on energy and climate policy.
