Past Events

Join us for a two-day event with scholars, activists, journalists and policy practitioners to discuss a Green New Deal for Canada. The panels will examine a variety of topics about climate change and the economy:
1) What are the current federal and provincial climate change policies?
2) What can Canada learn from climate policy in other countries?
3) What can labor, business, and activists do to help speed up decarbonization?
4) What key policies are needed?

This year’s federal election is a keystone for the environment. How do we make sure the environment is a top issue both at the ballot box and in the next four years in Parliament?

These notable climate change experts and environmental advocates will speak about the current issues facing youth as they inherit the challenges of a dramatically changing planet. The goal of the Climate First Tour is to urge Canadians to consider environmental issues as they head to the polls at the 2019 federal election.

This panel showcases nine organizations that work nationally and locally from a wide range of perspectives to combat the climate breakdown. They will discuss their visions for change and the actions they are taking.  Come to the panel to learn what they do, what they propose and why, and most importantly how you might get involved.

Luís M. A. Bettencourt is Pritzker Director of the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation and a Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution and the College.  He is also an External Professor of Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute. Registration is required for this free event.

Keynote Speaker: CHELSEA M. ROCHMAN, Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto
The Effects of Plastics in our Aquatic Environment

Designing 2050 Symposium: Creating Pathways to a Sustainable Society. By offering a range of perspectives and disciplines, we will develop roadmaps for a positive vision of the future to advance climate solutions and societal transformation.

Turning Up the Heat: Physics and Politics in a Warming World
Bill McKibben, author, environmentalist, founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org, and Schumann Distinguished Professor in Residence, Middlebury College in Vermont

Please come and join us for this event by DR. CHRISTINA M. DAVY, Research Scientist (Species at Risk), Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry; Adjunct Professor, Trent University.

CHARLES GARDNER, Medical Officer of Health, Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit
KATHRYN MARSILIO, Public Health and Preventive Medicine Resident, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto