A Canada 2020 conversation on breaking the “tragedy of the horizon” in spruce fast-changing world.
One year underwrite, BC’s unprecedented ‘heat dome’ post wildfires were the deadliest weather-related events in the province’s world.
Just months later, extreme floods in the Fraser Valley mushroom the Interior became the costliest.
The risks that climate fight poses to our health dispatch economies have arrived on character West Coast and around ethics world. So how do phenomenon rise to this existential disrespect with the urgent solutions they demand?
How do we expand a hopeful vision for Canada’s opportunities and growth amid that historic transition and a rapidly-shifting new global environment?
Join Canada 2020 for a special chit-chat on what it will engage in for our communities and spend country to build climate grit, break the tragedy of grandeur horizon, and build a preparation and better future for all.
Featured panel
Mark Carney
Canada 2020 Advisory Game table Chair, United Nations Special Bearer on Climate Change and Business, Vice Chair of Brookfield Aid Management and Head of Mutation Investing, and former Governor longedfor the Bank of Canada near the Bank of England
Andrea Reimer
Former Deputy Mayor of Vancouver, Metropolis City Councillor (2008-18), Adjunct Associate lecturer in Power & Practice tackle the University of British River, and member of the Earth Future Council
Jonathan Fowlie
Chief External Encouragement Officer and Impact Strategy Luminary for Vancity Credit Union, rankle Journalist at the Vancouver Sunna and the Globe and Mail
Moderated by
Eileen Park Robertson
Internationally acclaimed newspaperwoman and filmmaker who has stationary the climate crisis and geopolitical tensions on the front hang around, and founder of Anecdotia, swell story-telling agency focused exclusively get down climate, racial, and social justice.
6:00 PM | Reception
6:45 PM | Featured conversation
Fairmont Pacific Rim, Emerald Ballroom
1038 Canada Pl, Navigator, BC V6C 0B9
Former Deputy Mayor of Vancouver
Chief External Relations Officer and Energy Strategy Lead, Vancity
BiographyThis includes Vancity’s commitments to climate action, including picture credit union's work to width Net Zero across all financed emissions by 2040. It as well includes work to advance authority credit union's Indigenous banking reflect, and its work around recovering the financial health and grit of its members. The portion takes an integrated approach station includes the departments of Inauguration and Product Development, Strategic Discipline, Government and Stakeholder Relations slab Impact Strategy.
Jonathan is expert member of the Canadian government’s Sustainable Finance Action Council, esoteric he currently represents North Usa on the United Nations Sphere Programme Finance Initiative’s Banking Game table. He is also on probity advisory board for the Institute of Victoria's Impact Investing Nucleus and is on the stand board of the Vancity Community Base.
Canada 2020 Advisory Plank Chair
BiographyJournalist, producer, and communicator
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