Modern Prosperity: to talk carbon pricing

Ecology Action Centre invites you to talk carbon pricing in Paul O’Regan Hall of the Halifax Central Library.

Tuesday, July 7th 6:30pm – 8:30pm

EAC will host experts from across Canada at an event designed to facilitate learning about carbon pricing from the perspective of several jurisdictions and discussion about how climate change action, innovation, and prosperity can flourish together in Nova Scotia.

Speakers:

Jeremy Moorhouse
Senior Analyst
Clean Energy Canada

Jeremy works to advance Clean Energy Canada’s electricity, transportation, and carbon objectives within British Columbia. He is a professional engineer with eight years experience improving the environmental performance of energy systems across Canada. Before joining our team, he served as a technical analyst with the Pembina Institute and completed a masters degree in Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University. Jeremy serves as our in-house technical and research lead. He managed research for our Tracking the Energy Revolution reports, and co-authored Lock In Jobs, Not Pollution, and The Cleanest LNG in the World?, a pair of publications on British Columbia’s proposed LNG industry.

Mark Purdon
Executive Director
Institut quebecois du carbone

Dr. Mark Purdon is an expert on climate change policy and political economy, working at the intersection of comparative politics, public policy and international relations. He is currently a visiting professor at the Département de science politique at the Université de Montréal. He earned a PhD in political science at the University of Toronto in 2013 and completed a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at the London School of Economics in 2014. Given the lack of progress at the UN level and rapidly evolving climate policy landscape in North America, Mark has established with colleagues the Institut québécois du carbone (IQCarbone) of which he is Executive Director. Relevant policy publications include Mapping the Political Economy of California and Quebec’s Cap-and-Trade Systems (2014) with Sustainable Prosperity, Les retombées économiques prévues du marché du carbone Californie-Québec (2015) with CÉRIUM, and The Carbon Footprint of the Energy East Pipeline (2015 forthcoming) with IQCarbone. In terms of academic work, he is taking a leadership role in the emerging field of comparative environmental politics as co-editor of a forthcoming special issue of Global Environment Politics entitled “Advancing Comparative Climate Change Politics: Theory & Method”. This includes paper a co-authored on the comparative politics of implementing the Western Climate Initiative, which examines Quebec, California, British Columbia and New Mexico. Mark has also published extensively on the matters of climate change and international development as well as on the international politics of climate finance.

Lars Osberg
Department of Economics
Dalhousie University

Lars Osberg has been a member of the Economics Department at Dalhousie University since 1977. He is well known internationally for his contributions in the field of economics. His major research interests are the measurement and determinants of inequality, social exclusion and poverty, measurement of economic well-being, carbon pricing and economic insecurity. He has published numerous articles in academic journals and seven books, including Unnecessary Debts, co-edited with Pierre Fortin (James Lorimer Publishers, Toronto, 1996). He is a past President of the Canadian Economics Association.

Catherine Abreu
Energy Coordinator
Ecology Action Centre

Catherine Abreu is dedicated to positioning Atlantic Canada as a national leader in sustainable energy policy. As Energy Coordinator of the Ecology Action Centre, Catherine designs and manages campaigns focused on maintaining the province’s singular commitment to energy efficiency, developing Nova Scotia’s renewable energy sector, and phasing out coal-fired electricity generation. Catherine is committed to work that confronts climate change head-on, wielding bold and creative strategies. She thinks a lot about citizenship, community, and beauty, and does her best to incorporate these values into each of her endeavors. Prior to beginning her work with EAC and ACSEC, she founded the Nova Scotia Coalition for Climate Action and coordinated several multi-disciplinary conferences on issues related to climate change. Catherine authored the report Electricity and Nova Scotia’s Future: Hurdles and Opportunities.