***Please Note: Due to the tragic passing of our dear friend and colleague, Meinhard Doelle, this event has been canceled for the foreseeable future while we mourn this loss***

The need for rapid curtailment in greenhouse gas emissions to minimize the dangerous impacts of climate change is well recognized. This imperative has been indoctrinated into Canadian impact assessment processes with clear expectations outlined in the Impact Assessment Act, which clearly prescribes the need to determine whether a proposed new industrial project contributes to or hinders Canada's efforts to meet its climate commitments. How to implement such expectations in impact assessment practice, however, is far less clear. In this webinar, our panel of experts will first situate impact assessment in the broader context of climate change politics in Canada. Then we will discuss how Canada’s community of impact assessment practitioners, policymakers and scholars can work to ensure that Canadian impact assessment becomes an important means of addressing climate change. Panelists will provide an overview of Canada’s climate commitments, and then delve into exploring how GHG emissions should factor into what projects get assessed, the scope of an assessment of a project’s GHG emissions, and ultimately how a project’s anticipated emissions should be factored into decisions about whether and under what conditions a project should be approved.

Panelists:

• Meinhard Doelle- Dalhousie University

• Robert Gibson- University of Waterloo

• Kathryn Harrison- University of British Columbia

• Sharon Mascher- University of Calgary

September 22 1:00pm-2:30pm ET

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