Climate Change: Cross-Canada Briefings Before Kyoto

CALGARY

 

Wednesday, November 5, 1997, Blue Room
The Dining Centre, 2500 University Drive NW
University of Calgary

8:30 Registration and coffee

9:00 Welcoming Remarks (TBC)

9:05 Introduction to the Session: Hugh Morris, President, CGCP

9:15 Understanding Climate Change, Jim Bruce, IPCC WG3, CGCP Board member

• General overview: Jim Bruce
• Impacts: a regional perspectives: James M. Byrne, Water Resources Institute, University of Lethbridge
• Impacts and adaptation on human health: Sheldon Roth, Director – Environmental Research Centre,University of Calgary
• Mitigation: Jim Bruce
• Economic and social costs: Peter Dickey, Consultant

12:00 Lunch (included with registration fee)

13:00 The International and National Negotiation Process, by Doug Russell, GCSI Inc.

14:15 The position of the Federal Government, by J. Vollmershausen, Regional Director General, Prairie and Northern Region, Environment Canada

14:45 The position of the Provincial Government, by Brent Lakeman, Senior Advisor, Environmental Affairs, Planning and Development Division, Alberta Department of Energy

15:15 Break

15:30 Panel: What should Canada do in Kyoto and beyond?

• Chair: Elaine McCoy, President, The Macleod Institute
  
• Panel: Gary Webster, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers;
  
  Alan Wood, Insurance Bureau of Canada;
  
  Dan Smith, Research Associate, Pembina Institute

16:45 Conclusion of the Session: Hugh Morris

17:15 End of the Session

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