[ensu] IES seminar Feb 11, 4:00pm
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- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 22:49:25 -0500
Institute for Environmental Studies Seminar
(special seminar joint with the Sustainable Toronto project)
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WED FEBRUARY 11, 4:00 p.m.
Room 2093, Earth Sciences Centre
(Huron & Bancroft; Geology section of building)
(north of College St., east of Spadina Ave.)
"NOW THAT WE'VE RATIFIED, WHAT ARE WE DOING TO MEET OUR KYOTO
COMMITMENT?"
(abstract below)
DOUG MACDONALD, Acting Program Director, Environmental Studies Program,
Innis College, University of Toronto and
KEITH STEWART, Smog and Climate Change Campaigner, Toronto
Environmental
Alliance
No registration required; all are welcome.
For more information, please contact
Mona El-Haddad, Series Coordinator (416-978-6526;
m.elhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Please check www.utoronto.ca/env/seminars.htm for abstracts and
updates.
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ABSTRACT:
During 2002, Canadian business mounted its largest political
intervention since the free trade election of 1988 and the largest ever
seen in the history of Canadian environmental policy making. Despite a
united business front and the vigorous support of Alberta and other
provinces, business lost. The Chretien government ratified the Kyoto
Protocol and launched programs intended to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions to 6% below 1990 levels by 2010. Will those programs succeed?
This presentation will attempt to answer that question. Drawing on
their collaboration during the Sustainable Toronto university-community
research initiative, Drs. Stewart
and Macdonald will examine the wreckage of federal-provincial
collaborative climate policy, derailed by the Edmonton-Ottawa conflict,
the extent to which the business lobby has succeeded in weakening the
federal climate plan and the likelihood that Dalton McGuinty will be
able to make good on his promise to stop generating electricity by
burning coal, as well as his other clean air and climate change
promises. They will conclude with analysis of the current political
dynamic and its implications for policy success by 2010.
Sustainable Toronto is directed by Beth Savan of Innis College and
David Bell of the York Centre for Applied Sustainability. Funded by
SSHRC, it is a consortium between the Environmental Studies Program of
Innis College (U of T) and the York Centre for Applied Sustainability
(York U), and linked with the City of Toronto and several non-profit
groups. For more information, please see:
http://www.sustainabletoronto.ca
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