Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change9 Kesä 2021

Powering Canada Past Coal - Ep45: Catherine McKenna

Catherine McKenna is a Canadian Liberal politician serving as the Minister of Infrastructure and Communities since 2019. Before that she was the Minister of Environment and Climate Change for 4 years.

Her ministerial mandate includes ensuring infrastructure investments support just economic growth and the clean energy transition. Her ministerial mandate includes, inter alia, delivering of “accessible affordable, active and zero-emissions transit options”, “investing in large-scale building retrofits and clean power” and “continuing to close the infrastructure gap in Indigenous communities, particularly with respect to affordable housing”.

Before taking the infrastructure and communities portfolio, Catherine was in charge of the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change. She was appointed just before COP21 in Paris and played a significant role during the summit.

Catherine is a lawyer by education: she co-founded Canadian Lawyers Abroad, now called Level, a charity through which Canadian lawyers are able to work on pro bono cases around the world. She has also worked in leading Canadian and Indonesian law firms and was a negotiator with the United Nations mission in East Timor.

Catherine holds degrees from the University of Toronto, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and McGill University’s Faculty of Law. A mom of three, avid swimmer and canoeist, Minister McKenna is a long-time resident of the Glebe in Ottawa.

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Driving the Ecological Transition - Ep37: Teresa Ribera

Teresa Ribera, Deputy Prime Minister in the Spanish government and the Minister for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, is joining us this week on Cleaning Up. She has played a key ro...

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It's climate, Jim, but not as we know it - Ep36: Prof. Jim Skea

Further reading:Official biohttps://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/j.skeaIPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 ºChttps://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/ EEA COVID Debate No. 7 - COVID-19 and climate change (Dece...

24 Maalis 20211h

Investing in Climate Activism - Ep35: Kate Hampton

Further reading:Official Bio https://ciff.org/team/kate-hampton/ World Bank Live Featured Speaker: Kate Hampton https://live.worldbank.org/experts/kate-hampton The Children's Investment Fund Found...

17 Maalis 202149min

Electrifying Almost Everything for Net-Zero - Ep34: Kristian Ruby

Further reading:Official Bio https://be.linkedin.com/in/kristian-ruby-143685 Europe’s vehicle fleets to boast 10.5m EVs by 2030 (February, 2021) https://www.energylivenews.com/2021/02/03/europes-ve...

10 Maalis 202158min

Happy International Women’s Day!

Today is International Women’s Day. We want to take the time to highlight some of the incredible women who are leading the world’s pivot to net-zero. From politics to finance and diplomacy, these wome...

8 Maalis 20213min

Leading the way from Westminster to Paris - Ep33: Rt Hon Amber Rudd

Further reading:Climate change: COP26 head must be made full-time role to tackle global emergency, Amber Rudd says (December, 2020)https://news.sky.com/story/climate-change-cop26-head-must-be-made-ful...

3 Maalis 202144min

Building the Billion-Customer Energy Company - Ep32: Greg Jackson

LinksOctopus Energyhttps://octopus.energy/Energy needed a digital revolution – and we are it (January 2021)https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jan/02/energy-needed-a-digital-revolution-and-we-ar...

24 Helmi 20211h 1min

Climate Change? We'll be in Floods - Ep31: Emma Howard Boyd

Further reading:Government biohttps://www.gov.uk/government/people/emma-howard-boydEnvironment Agency websitehttps://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/environment-agencyEncouraging locally-led clima...

17 Helmi 202155min