Climate Change: Cross-Canada Briefings Before Kyoto

HALIFAX

 

Wednesday, November 19, 1997
University Club, Upper Campus
Dalhousie University, Halifax

8:30 Registration and coffee

9:00 Welcoming Remarks: Tom Traves, President, Dalhousie University

9:05 Introduction to the Session: Desmond O'Neil, Donmec Consulting

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

• General overview: Jim Bruce
• Impacts: Jim Abraham, Manager of Atmospheric Science, Environment Canada, Bedford
• Mitigation: Doug Russell, Global Change International Inc.
• Legal Framework: David vanderZwaag, Dalhousie University
• Economic and social costs: Jim Bruce

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 Garth Bangay, Regional Director General, Atlantic Region, Environment Canada

14:45 The position of the Provincial Government, Peter Underwood, Deputy Minister, NS Ministry of the Environment

15:15 Break

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

• Chair: K. Scott Wood, Director, School of Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University
• Panel: David Brickman, Ecology Action Centre, Halifax
  TBA
  Murray Coolican, Vice President, Public & Regulatory Affairs,
  
  Nova Scotia Power

16:45 Conclusion of the Session: Desmond O'Neil

17:15 End of the Session

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