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Parallel Paths: Canada-U.S. Climate Policy Choices – Convene

Environmental experts and stakeholders provided critical insight and advice throughout our work.  This was essential in ensuring that our research and report were grounded and relevant. The NRT hosted a series of outreach sessions across the country and in Washington, D.C. after the report was released to discuss the report’s findings and implications for Canadian climate policy.

 

Meetings and Events

Canada-U.S. Climate Policy Outreach Sessions

To foster a countrywide conversation about Canadian climate policy choices, the NRTEE held a series of outreach meetings across Canada and in Washington, DC. At each of these sessions, the NRTEE used the findings from Parallel Paths: Canada-U.S. Climate Policy Choices as a launching pad for a dialog between key stakeholders. The NRTEE convened these workshops not only to gauge reaction to its analysis and recommendations, but also to seed a broader conversation about Canada’s choices moving forward.

Canada-U.S. Climate Policy Study Advisory Committee

  • Meetings of the Canada-U.S. climate policy study advisory committee took place in Ottawa in July and November 2009 and April 2010; and in Calgary in April 2010. These participants provided critical insight and advice throughout the development of the report that was essential in ensuring that our research and our report were grounded and relevant.

Washington D.C. Workshop

  • In January 2010, the NRTEE, in partnership with the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, D.C., hosted a meeting of U.S. and Canadian climate policy experts to review and discuss analysis and findinsg of the NRTEE’s climate policy study.

Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C.

  • On February 10, 2011, David McLaughlin, NRTEE President and CEO, and Dale Beugin, NRTEE Policy Advisor presented the findings of the NRTEE’s recent report Parallel Paths: Canada-U.S. Climate Policy Choices at a meeting of the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C. The Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution devoted to the study of international economic policy.

 

Experts Advisory Committee

Robert Page, Ph.D.
NRTEE Chair
TransAlta Professor of Environmental Management and Sustainability
University of Calgary

Chris Bataille
Consultant and Associates
J&C Nyboer

Mark Berman
Director
Climate Change and Energy Division,
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada

Dale Beugin
Policy Advisor
National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy

Richard Boyd
Policy Analyst
Climate Change Central

James Brown
Consultant
Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers

Mark Cameron
Director, Corporate Affairs
Ontario Power Generation

Katherine Cinq-Mars
Policy Analyst
Climate Change Policies Section
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada

John Clarkson
Deputy Minister
Department of Innovation, Energy and Mines
Government of Manitoba

Mike Cleland
President and CEO
Canadian Gas Association

Neil Craik
Associate Professor
Centre for Environment and Policy
University of Waterloo

Clare Demerse
Associate Director
Climate Change
Pembina Institute

John Dillon
Vice President
Regulatory Affairs and General Counsel
Canadian Council of Chief Executives

John Drexhage
Director of Climate Change and Energy
International Institute for Sustainable Development

René Drolet
Director, Policy and Research
National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy

Carolyn Fischer
Senior Fellow
Resources for the Future

Marcel Gaucher
Directeur du Bureau des changement climatiques
Ministère du Développement durable, de l’Environnement et des Parcs du Québec

Shirley-Ann George
Senior Vice-President
Policy Department
The Canadian Chamber of Commerce

Pierre Guimond
President and CEO
Canadian Electricity Association

Madanmohan Ghosh
Senior Economist
Finance Canada

Rosanne Hahn
Manager
Modelling and Analysis Section
Air Policy Instruments and Program Design Branch
Government of Ontario

Franklin Holtforster
NRTEE Member
President and CEO
MHPM Project Managers Inc.

Tom Huffaker
Vice President
Policy and Environment
Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers

Jim Hughes
Manager of Energy Analysis
Corporate Planning Department
Imperial Oil Limited

Judith Hull
Special Advisor|
Trading Regimes Division
Legislative and Regulatory Affairs Directorate
Environment Canada

Rick Hyndman
Senior Policy Advisor
Climate Change and Air Issues
Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers

Fiona Jones
Director, Energy and Climate Policy
Suncor Energy Inc.

Alex Long
Senior Policy Advisor
National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy

Elizabeth Majeau
Director, Generation and Environment
Canadian Electricity Association

Bob Masterson
Director of Policy
Cement Association of Canada

Dennis McConaghy
Executive Vice-President
TransCanada Corporation

David McLaughlin
President and CEO
National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy

Shane McLellan
Supervisor
Emissions and Mitigation
SaskPower

Micah Melnyk
Senior Policy Analyst
Climate Change and Energy Division
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada

Jayson Myers
President and CEO
Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters

Nancy Olewiler
Professor, Department of Economics
Simon Fraser University

Natasha Rascanin
Assistant Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Operations
Privy Council Office

Marlo Raynolds
Executive Director
Pembina Institute

Andy Ridge
Director, Climate Change Secretariat
Alberta Environment

Colin Robertson
Senior Fellow
Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute

Wishart Robson
NRTEE Member
Climate Change Advisor to the President and CEO
Nexen Inc.

Pierre Sadik
Manager, Government Affairs
David Suzuki Foundation

Dave Sawyer
Principal
EnviroEconomics Inc.

Robert Slater
NRTEE Vice-Chair
Adjunct Professor, Environment Policy
Carleton University

Carl Sonnen
President
Informetrica Limited

Don Wharton
Vice-President
Sustainable Development Planning
TransAlta

Tony Young
Director General of Economic Analysis
Strategic Policy Branch
Environment Canada