By Cecilia Nasmith/Today’s Northumberland
November is Pathways to Net Zero month for the Northumberland Learning Connection, which is designating three Thursdays for a climate-change mini-series.
Three events – on Nov. 11, 18 and 25 – will feature nine distinguished speakers examining Financial Actions, Global Actions and Local Actions respectively.
And with an in-person option for the third session, this marks the first time since NLC’s 2019 AI series that programming has been available in anything other than an on-line format.
Sara Alvarado, Institute for Sustainable Finance Executive Director, will be featured Nov. 11with interviewer Karin Wells. Alvarado, who holds an MBA from the Edinburgh Business School and has attended executive programs at Harvard Business School, will look at Financial Actions to help achieve the Net Zero goal.
The other two sessions both feature panels of three experts as well as a noted moderator.
The Nov. 18 Global Actions panel is moderated by global climate policy expert Diana Fox Carney, who sits on the Advisory Board of the growth equity fund BeyondNetZero and Canadian agtech company Terramera.
Carney’s panelists are:
Catherine Abreu – Founder and executive director of Destination Zero, a new organization focused on climate action and the global energy transition, and former Executive Director of Climate Action Network Canada.
Cobourg resident Ralph Torrie – Director of Research for Corporate Knights, an investment, research and publishing firm, as well as an internationally recognized analyst and communicator in the field of energy and environmental systems.
Yung Wu – Chief Executive Officer of MaRS Discovery District, one of the world’s largest innovation hubs and cofounder of two not-for-profit organizations – the Coalition of Innovation Leaders Against Racism and Differentiscool.
The Nov. 25 Local Actions panel is moderated by Cobourg resident Denny Manchee, long-time journalist and CBC Radio alumna.
Manchee’s panelists are:
Craig Ballard – Chief Executive Officer of Elexicon Group, a company devoted to helping private and public organizations across Canada make significant improvements to sustainability and reductions to energy consumption.
Steve Lapp – Retired educator and engineer who has designed, built, researched and taught renewable energy systems, technology and policy for 40 years.
Cobourg resident Judy Smith – A local activist as well as a member of the Joint Environmental Advisory Committee for Environment Canada and Statistics Canada that produced the nation’s first State of the Environment Report.
All three sessions begin at 7:30 p.m., and the Nov. 25 session will be offered live in Cobourg for those with vaccination verification, as well as on-line. Tickets are available on-line – free for the Nov. 25 session and $10 per person for the Nov. 11 and 18 programs.
The Nov. 25 program will be held at the Columbus Community Centre, 232 Spencer St. E. In lieu of admission, the Northumberland Learning Connection hopes you will consider making a donation to a local environmental cause.
For tickets, or further information, visit the Northumberland Learning Connection website.
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