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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Cheaper, Cleaner, More Reliable - Ep14: Jonathan Maxwell

Further reading:Jonathan’s official bio:https://www.sdclgroup.com/blog/our-team/jonathan-maxwell/Build Back Better: How utilities can get their own estates in order (27 July 2020)https://utilityweek.c...

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Poet of the Low-Carbon Transition - Ep13: Morgan Bazilian

Further reading:Morgan’s bio at the Colorado School of Mineshttps://econbus.mines.edu/project/bazilian-morgan/Morgan Bazilian on Wikitiahttps://wikitia.com/wiki/Morgan\_BazilianAnalytical Methods for ...

14 Loka 20201h 8min

Seeing the Future - Ep12: Ramez Naam

Further readingRamez Naam’s websitehttps://rameznaam.com/Ramez Naam’s author page on Amazonhttps://www.amazon.com/Ramez-Naam/e/B001IOH84SSmaller Cheaper Faster (2011)https://blogs.scientificamerican.c...

7 Loka 20201h 2min

From Celebrity to Action - Ep11: Jon Dee

Further reading:Jon Dee’s websitehttps://jondee.com/Planet Ark https://planetark.org/DoSomethinghttps://dosomethingnearyou.com.au/about-us/Rock Aid Armenia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock\_Aid\_Arm...

30 Syys 20201h 4min

A Green Deal Without the Yellow Vests - Ep10: Angela Francis

Further reading:“Saving the planet without making it everyone's top priority | Angela Francis | TEDxLondonWomen”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk7zXHE4kzA“We can’t afford deals that destroy our plane...

23 Syys 202054min

Creating Climate Wealth - Ep9: Jigar Shah

Further reading:Jigar’s Wikipedia entryhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigar\_ShahRepublican Congressman to Oil and Gas Industry: ‘No More Subsidies’ - Jigar Shah argues for an end to fossil fuel subsi...

16 Syys 20201h 6min

The Price of Resilience - Ep8: Roger Dennis

Further reading:Roger Dennis’s websitehttp://www.rogerdennis.com/Roger Dennis on LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/rogerdennis/Lessons From the West African Ebola Outbreak in Relation to New Zealand...

9 Syys 20201h 4min

A Good and Exciting Life - Ep7: Bertrand Piccard

Further reading:Bertrand Piccard’s websitehttps://bertrandpiccard.com/homeThe story of the Solar Impulse round-the-world electric flighthttps://aroundtheworld.solarimpulse.com/adventureHow to raise $1...

2 Syys 20201h 8min