[Click here for printable PDF] Discussion Summary Ryan Durante, Jenna Phillips and Tatyana Feiner   With the support of the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada at Wilfrid Laurier University and the Balsillie School of International Affairs, this workshop brought...

[Click here for printable PDF] Discussion Summary #2 Tatyana Feiner, Ryan Durante, Jenna Phillips   With the support of the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada at Wilfrid Laurier University and the Balsillie School of International Affairs, this workshop brought...

[Click here for printable PDF] Discussion Summary #1 Jenna Phillips, Tatyana Feiner and Ryan Durante   With the support of the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada at Wilfrid Laurier University and the Balsillie School of International Affairs, this workshop brought...

[Click here for printable PDF]   Key Messages   Perspectives   Governance of public forests (92% of forests in Canada) is frequently contested due to competing land use values (timber extraction, carbon sequestration, biodiversity protection, amongst...

[Click here for printable PDF]   Key Messages   Perspectives   There are three core perspectives on agrifood sustainability, each of which emphasizes different dimensions of agri-food (un)sustainability and locates “the problem” and “the solution” very...

[Click here for printable PDF]   Key Messages   Perspectives   It is increasingly recognized that effectively conserving biodiversity can be used to achieve transformative change to address other societal challenges, such as climate change, and will be...

[Click here for printable PDF]   Key Messages   Perspectives   Canadians are starting to realize the climate crisis is a water crisis as they observe fundamental challenges related to flooding, droughts, wildfires, and water quality issues Water rights...

[Click here for printable PDF]   Key Messages   Perspectives   Many argue that energy system transitions in the direction of net-zero need to advance wider sustainability goals, such as reconciliation with Canada’s Indigenous peoples The Trudeau...

[Click here for printable PDF]   Key Messages   Perspectives The Canadian North contributes the least to carbon emissions and yet it is the hardest hit by the impact of climate change. The North is also the most vulnerable to energy insecurity, in terms of...

[Click here for printable PDF]   Key Messages (DRAFT)   Perspectives   Canada is one of many states that faces a major quandary regarding its global climate identity. Canada relies heavily on fossil fuel production and dependent industries, such as...

[Click here for printable PDF]   Key Messages   Perspectives   Canada and the U.S. are ‘interlocked’ with one another by overlapping economic, environmental and security interdependences, and share broad perspectives on climate mitigation targets (2030...

[Click here for printable PDF]   Key Messages   Perspectives   Transformative change in urban areas requires that we embrace a broader understanding of what makes for a good life, and develop contextual understandings of what drives existing inequalities and...

[Click here for printable PDF]   Key Messages   Perspectives   National climate policies will need to be able to survive deeply-rooted differences in perspectives about how we should approach GHG mitigation across regions in Canada Differing...

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[Click here for printable PDF]   Key Messages   Perspectives   The federal decision-making machinery is governed by conventional, hierarchical norms regarding decision-making roles and responsibilities, and tends toward closed decision processes in which...

[Click here for printable PDF]   Key Messages   Perspectives   Environmental law has furthered ‘extractivism’, a mode of accumulation that necessitates both a high pace and a large scale of taking, that is non-reciprocal, and that produces intense,...

[Click here for printable PDF]   Key Messages   Perspectives   Each of the three sectoral spheres – the market, the state and civil society – has a logic defined by its governance norms, or the intentions, functions, and rules of interaction by which it...

[Click here for printable PDF]   Key Messages   Perspectives   There are a wide range of perspectives within the environmental movement in Canada regarding the roots of environmental decline, the necessity of a Green Transition and how deeply our economic,...

[Click here for printable PDF]   Key Messages   Perspectives   Broadly, Canadians understand the climate crisis is real, and that the window of opportunity to address it is lessening Canadians clearly support an energy transition, even in oil and gas...

[Click here for printable PDF]   Highlights   Drawing from his traditional Huron-Wendat teachings and knowledges, as well as his research experience in different North American regions, in this chapter Sioui provides a broad discussion of the value of...

[Click here for printable PDF]   Key Messages (Draft)   Perspectives   Workers and unions have been the focal point of just transitions advocacy and actions, with a focus on the retraining, relocation and preferential hiring of workers. Broader perspectives...

[Click here for printable PDF]   Introduction Debora L. VanNijnatten     Part 1: Setting the Context   Chapter 1. What do we mean by a ‘just transition’? Tamara Krawchenko, School of Public Administration, University of Victoria, tamarakrawchenko@uvic.ca Kara...

[Click here for printable PDF]   Canada has reached an inflection point in its political, economic and social evolution as a nation – will its future be ‘green’ or ‘brown’? Since 2016, the Trudeau Liberal government has committed to ambitious climate and...