The Climate Emergency and the Future of Fossil Fuels
Channel: Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs
Date: 2022-02-11

Having recently returned from COP26 Tzeporah will reflect on whether the climate negotiations were a breakthrough or a disappointment and discuss how the emergence of the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance of countries and the proposed Fossil Fuel Non-proliferation Treaty Initiative relate to the future of oil and gas in Alberta and Canada.
Speaker:   Tzeporah Berman              

Tzeporah has been designing environmental advocacy campaigns and environmental policy for
30 years. She is currently the International Program Director at Stand.earth and the Chair of the
Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative. She is the Co-founder of the Global Gas & Oil
Network, the former co-director of Greenpeace International’s Climate and Energy Program, and the Co-founder of ForestEthics (now Stand.earth). She is an Adjunct Professor of York University Faculty of Environmental Studies and in 2013, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of British Columbia. She has held appointed positions advising the British Columbia government on climate policy and was appointed by the Alberta Government to Co-Chair the Oil Sands Advisory Working Group tasked with making recommendations to implement climate change and cumulative impact policies in the oilsands. She is the author of This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge, is listed as one of the 35 Most Influential Women in British Columbia by BC Business Magazine, and was awarded the YWCA Women of Distinction Award in British Columbia. In 2019, Tzeporah received the Climate Breakthrough Project Award and in 2021 she gave a widely-viewed TED Talk presenting the case for a global treaty to phase out fossil fuels. 

Date and time:   Thursday February 10, 2022 at 12:00 Noon MT
 
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