Implementing a Just Transition
Parkland Institute’s Virtual Conference
Wednesday & Thursday, February 23 and 24, 2022
On February 23 and 24, 2022, Parkland Institute will host its “Implementing a Just Transition” conference. In this virtual event, national and international speakers will discuss the challenges and opportunities involved in implementing a transition to a clean energy economy that is fair to the workers and communities impacted. Hear from our keynote speakers as they explore how all levels of government must engage with impacted communities and workers while implementing policies that will respond to the climate crisis. Engage with our panel of international experts and discover how governments around the world are moving forward with the development of policy and actions for just transitions of their economies. Discuss what a just transition looks like in Canada and Alberta, within the context of a shrinking job market in the Canadian oil and gas industry, which since 2014 has shed 18% of its workforce due to structural changes and increasing automation.
Speakers include:
· Mayor
of Calgary Jyoti
Gondek
(one of her first moves as a mayor was declaring a climate emergency in the
city)
· Catherine
Abreu,
considered one of the world’s 100 most influential people in climate
policy (Apolitical, 2019)
· Gil McGowan, president of the Alberta
Federation of Labour, an organization that represents more than 175,000 workers
in the public and private sectors
· Jim Skea, chair of Scotland’s Just
Transition Commission
· Brian
Motherway,
director of the Energy Efficiency Division of the International Energy Agency
and lead of the IEA's work with the Global Commission on People-Centred Clean
Energy Transitions
· Sam Smith, director of the International Trade Union
Confederation’s
Just Transition Center
Watch a video preview of the conference in this series of short interviews with featured panelists. Registration for “Implementing a Just Transition” is open until February 22 at ParklandConference.ca ...
