Past Events

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Join the Comparative Program on Health and Society as we commemorate seventeen years of the Program and celebrate its achievements in advancing research on the social determinants of health. Presentations by distinguished alumni will include discussions of their current research, with topics ranging from the health impacts of fracking in British Columbia to the Trade in Human Liver Lobes.

Schedule:

8:00 Registration and Breakfast

8:45 Opening Remarks by Stephen Toope, Director, Munk School of Global Affairs, Peter Warrian, Co-Founder and Chair, Lupina Foundation, Lisa Forman, Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health

9:00 The History of CPHS
Peter Warrian, Co-Founder and Chair, The Lupina Foundation, Senior Research Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
Margret Hovanec, Co-Founder and Director, The Lupina Foundation
Lisa Forman, Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Joshua Goldstein, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Calgary
Bianca Seaton, Qualitative Researcher, St. Michael’s Hospital

10:30 Break

11:00 Socio-Economic Status and Health Outcomes

Social Determinants of Health in Rural Anhui
Weizhen Dong, Associate Professor, Sociology and Legal Studies, The University of Waterloo

When personal healing leads to reconciliation: a longitudinal study
Regine King, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba

Gender and health inequalities: Implications of the extended working lives agenda
Laurie Corna, Lecturer, Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy, King’s College London

Beyond the Ideology of Heterosexuality: Researching Structural Inequalities in Health Services
Andrea Daley, Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Work, York University; Director, School of Social Work, York University

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Socio-Economic Status and Access to Healthcare

Where are the social determinants of health in this fracking conversation? Exploring the cumulative (health) impacts of resource development in northern British Columbia
Chris Buse, Project Lead, Cumulative Impacts Research Consortium, University of Northern British Columbia

Reflections on CPHS and Global HIV Social Science Research
Rusty Souleymanov, PhD Candidate, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto

A program of work to advance the pan-Canadian measurement of equity in health care
Sara Allin, Assistant Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto

Riding the wave. Understanding episodic disability and its impact on labour market participation in young adulthood and across the life course
Arif Jetha, Associate Scientist, Institute for Work and Health

15:00 Break

14:00 Human Rights, Globalization, and Ethics

Ethical issues related to the development and implementation of new technologies to fight tuberculosis
Diego Silva, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University

HIV and the Limits of Securitization
Suzanne Hindmarch, Assistant Professor, University of New Brunswick

Trade in Human Liver Lobes: Violence, Exploitation, Suffering
Monir Moniruzzaman, Assistant Professor, Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, Department of Anthropology Michigan State University

Public Health as Social Justice
Maxwell Smith, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill University Institute for Health and Social Policy

17:00 Closing Remarks from Lisa Forman

***Reception to Follow***

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Ukraine continues to be in the news since Independence with its early economic disappointments, its two people – revolutions, and of course the military aggression by Russia. This book has two main objectives. First, it describes the process of economic reforms and performance since independence. Second, it proposes several hypotheses as to why market reforms have been so slow and incomplete, and economic performance has lagged far behind that of the Central European countries. In doing so it puts forth a number of revisionist theories. The main economic difficulties were not, as many leaders argued, Ukraine’s unique impedimenta, but the decision at the very beginning to delay reforms. Oligarch development resulted from this late start, and is therefore not attributable to the Kuchma period alone as many analysts write, but started with the Kravchuk regime. One piece of evidence for that is that most of todays’ oligarchs started their business before 1994. Furthemore, delayed reforms allowed Russia to use it leverage over energy supplies to Ukraine’s detriment-but not coincidentally for the benefit of many early oligarchs. Finally, despite the incomplete reforms, standards of living of Ukrainians is not lower than they were in the Soviet period –that is simply a myth due to improper use of standard GDP statistics.

Oleh Havrylyshyn is an economist with a diverse career including academia, Government as Deputy Minister of Finance of Ukraine, a senior official at the Board of Directors and management of the IMF. His numerous writings on transition have been widely cited. In 2014-2016, he was an advisor to senior officials of the Ukrainian Government.

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Thursday, May 11th, 8:45 am to 1:00 pm. Registration starts at 8:45 am.

The United States is currently experiencing a rise in firearm related deaths and injuries. In 2015, the CDC reported that there were 15,809 homicides in the US. 10,945 of these homicides (roughly 70%) were committed with firearms. These numbers represent a rise from previous years, and also conceal the thousands of non-fatally injured each year. In fact, similar data from the CDC estimates that only about 1 in 5 shootings are fatal. This means that approximately 80% of all gunshot victims are non-fatal. Additionally, we know that these patterns of violence are not evenly distributed across the U.S. population. A robust field of gun violence research shows that the burden of gun violence is felt within urban poor, Black communities across the United States. Homicide is the leading cause of death for young Black men between the age of 15-24; and Black men comprise roughly 50% of the total number of gun deaths, even though they only make up 6% of the U.S. population. The purpose of this one-day symposium will be to investigate key questions around the gun violence epidemic and its impacts on urban Black communities in the U.S.

Panel 1: New Mechanisms – Gun Violence and Social Media
Desmond Patton, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Columbia University
“Innovating Gang Violence Prevention with Qualitative Analysis and Natural Language Processing Tools”

Panel 2: New Responses – Evolving Emergency and Trauma Care for Gunshot Victims
Joseph Richardson, Jr., Associate Professor, African American Studies, University of Maryland
“Invisible Wounds: Violence, Trauma and Healing Young Black Men”

Moderator: Jooyoung Lee, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.

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The event will feature a discussion on Justin Gest’s new book, The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality, as well as Nick Carnes’ book, White Collar Government: The Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy Making. These experts will weigh in on the role of populism in the United States and its influence on the rise of Donald Trump. Details are below.

Seats are limited, please register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/populism-and-its-influence-in-the-united-states-tickets-33991307917

More on the speakers and discussant:

Justin Gest is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government. His teaching and research interests include comparative politics, minority political behavior, and immigration policy. In the field of minority political behavior, his earlier research focused on Muslim political behavior in Western democracies. This work was collected in Apart: Alienated and Engaged Muslims in the West (Oxford University Press/Hurst, 2010). He recently published a follow-up study that applies his conclusions to white working class people. This work is entitled The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Nick Carnes is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, and the Co-Director of the Research Triangle chapter of the Scholars Strategy Network. His research focuses on U.S. politics, legislative decision making, representation, social class, economic inequality, and state and local politics. His book White-Collar Government: The Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy Making examines how the shortage of people from the working class in American legislatures skews the policymaking process towards outcomes that are more in line with the upper class’s economic interests. He is also completing a large-scale study of the factors that discourage working-class Americans from holding public office and the programs that could help to address the shortage of working-class Americans in our political institutions.

Chris Cochrane is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Left and Right: The Small World of Political Ideas (MQUP, 2015) and co-author, with Rand Dyck, of Canadian Politics: Critical Approaches (Nelson, 2014). He is also a co-investigator of Digging Into Linked Parliamentary Data, an international and interdisciplinary collaboration investigating the written records of parliamentary speech in Canada, the UK, and the Netherlands. He is interested in ideology and political disagreement in Canada and other democratic countries.

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On the occasion of Professor Emanuel Adler’s 70th birthday and 35th anniversary of graduating Berkeley, his colleagues and former PhD students gather to recognize their intellectual and personal debts and to celebrate Adler’s many scholarly achievements in the time-honored academic fashion of a Fest conference hosted at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto.

The different papers presented at the conference will engage intellectually and critically Adler’s extensive contributions in the theory of international relations, especially but not limited to issues such as progress, communities, practices, constructivism, the Middle East, complexity theory, and the European order. Special attention will be given to Adler’s ongoing book project: A Social Theory of Cognitive Evolution: Change, Stability, and International Social Orders, which brings to fruition the different strands that interested him throughout his incredibly fruitful career.

Emanuel Adler is the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Chair of Israeli Studies and Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the European Academy of Sciences, an Honorary Professor at the University of Copenhagen, and former editor of International Organization. Previously, he was Professor of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently based out of the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs.

His publications include books such as The Power of Ideology; Security Communities (with Michael Barnett); Communitarian International Relations; Convergence of Civilizations (with Federica Bicchi Beverly Crawford, and Raffaella Del Sarto); International Practices (with Vincent Pouliot); and Israel in the World. He has also published articles such as “Seizing the Middle Ground: Constructivism in World Politics” and “The Emergence of Cooperation: National Epistemic Communities and the International Evolution of the Idea of Nuclear Arms Control.”

Professor Adler’s interests include international practices and communities of practice, the evolution of international order, a constructivist reconsideration of strategic logic, including deterrence, European security institutions, international relations theory — in particular, constructivism, epistemic communities, security communities, and communities of practice — and Israel’s relations with the world.

This event is co-sponsored by the Munk School of Global Affairs, the Department of Political Science, Mr. Charles Bronfman and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies University of Toronto

9:00 Welcome
Louis Pauly, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science
Stephen J. Toope, Director, Munk School of Global Affairs
Karen Weisman, Professor and Acting Director, Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies

9:30 Becoming Emanuel Adler
Piki Ish-Shalom, the A. Ephraim and Shirley Diamond Family Chair in International Relations, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Markus Kornprobst, Professor of International Relations, Vienna School of International Studies
Vincent Pouliot, Professor and William Dawson Scholar, McGill University

10:15 Coffee break

10:30 Pragmatism, Meaning, and Suffering: Evolutionary Callings and Exhaustions
Michael Barnett, University Professor of International Affairs and Political Science, George Washington University
Janice Stein, Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management, Munk School of Global Affairs and Department of Political Science

11:15 Two Tales of Imperial Power: Mongols on Land — Anglo-America on Water
Peter J. Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies, Cornell University

12:00 Lunch break

13:00 Holding the Middle Ground: Cognitive Evolution and Progress
Christian Reus-Smit, Professor of International Relations, University of Queensland

13:45 In consideration of evolving matters
Alena Drieschova, Lecturer in International Relations, Cardiff University

14:30 Coffee break

15:00 Governing Environmental Complexity through Cognitive Evolution
Peter M. Haas, Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst

15:45 Power in evolution
Stefano Guzzini, Senior Research, Danish Institute for International Studies

16:30 Closing remarks
Emanuel Adler, Andrea & Charles Bronfman Chair of Israeli Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs and Department of Political Science

*** Reception to Follow ***

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Relations between the public and the police are strained today: from charges of police violence, abuse and racial bias to calls for transparency and greater police accountability. At the same time, we expect the cops to take on new missions: counter-terrorism, cybercrime, and the policing of highly diverse societies. In this new two-part series, IDEAS, CBC RADIO ONE, in partnership with the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, considers what it means to police and be policed in these complex and anxious times.

Monday May 15, 2017, Part 1: To Serve or Protect

Do the police serve the public by doing what communities say they want and need? Or, do cops think they know what’s best for public safety and must protect us? Inspector Shawna Coxon, Toronto Police Service, and member of the TPS Transformational Task Force; Todd Foglesong, Professor of Global Practice at the Munk School; Donald Worme, Q.C. , I.P.C., Cree lawyer and founding member of the Indigenous Bar Association of Canada, based in Saskatoon; and moderator Ron Levi, Director of the Munk School’s Global Justice Lab, debate the dynamics of policing, trust and public consent.

Tuesday May 16, 2017, Part 2: Old Cops, New Expectations

Counter-terrorism, fighting cybercrime, policing highly diverse societies: Can the police do it all? Should the police do it all? Do the police want
to do it all? Cal Corley, CEO of the Community Safety Knowledge Alliance, and former Assistant Commissioner with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; Inspector Shawna Coxon, Toronto Police Service, and member of the TPS Transformational Task Force; Micheal Vonn, Policy Director, B.C. Civil Liberties Association; and moderator Ron Levi, Director of the Munk School’s Global Justice Lab, weigh the implications, the challenges and the trade-offs for the police, for justice and for all of us.

ABOUT THE PANELLISTS

Inspector Shawna Coxon

Serving for more than two decades with the Toronto Police Service, Inspector Shawna Coxon has had a diverse career in uniform, community, intelligence, and investigative policing. Having just released ‘The Way Forward’ as a member of the Transformational Task Force, she has started an Organizational Change Management Team (a novel endeavour in Canadian policing). Prior to that, she was the second in charge of Intelligence Services where she implemented the inaugural Computer Cyber Crime Section.

Inspector Coxon has a PhD in Criminal Law and her areas of research include criminal law and technology. She is a published academic who has lectured internationally. She has won numerous awards; however she is most proud of the letters of appreciation from victims she has worked diligently for.

Todd Foglesong

Todd Foglesong joined the Munk School of Global Affairs as a Professor of Global Practice in 2014. He writes and teaches about the role of indicators as instruments of governance in policing and prosecution around the world, competing strategies for measuring and managing the response to violence against women and pretrial detention, and the role of surveys in assessments of safety and justice.

Between 2007 and 2014, Todd was a senior research fellow and adjunct lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), where wrote about policing in Los Angeles under a consent decree, the challenges of “making policing more affordable” in the United States, and the role of indicators of justice in the governments of Jamaica, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.

Donald Worme, Q.C., I.P.C.

DONALD E. WORME, Q.C., I.P.C., is a Cree lawyer from Kawacatoose First Nation, Treaty Four, Saskatchewan. For more than thirty years, he’s practiced extensively in criminal law and Aboriginal rights litigation. He also has considerable experience in public law, including Judicial Inquiries and Commissions of Inquiry. Among his high profile cases: Donald Worme served as Commission Counsel to the Ipperwash Judicial Inquiry into the death of unarmed Aboriginal protester, Dudley George, at the hands of an OPP sniper; he was Lead Counsel to the family of Neil Stonechild in the public inquiry into the freezing death of the Aboriginal teenager in Saskatoon; and he represented the family of 18-year-old Mathew Dumas in the Coroners Inquest into his shooting death by the Winnipeg Police. Donald Worme is a founding member of the Indigenous Bar Association and recipient of the Aboriginal Achievement Award for outstanding efforts in the field of Law and Justice.

Cal Corley

Cal Corley is the CEO of the Community Safety Knowledge Alliance (CKSA), a non-profit research and knowledge development centre that supports governments and the community safety sector in their drive for improved community safety and wellbeing. Cal is a former Assistant Commissioner with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. During his career, he gained extensive experience in both operations and management, serving in such areas as national security, criminal intelligence, drug enforcement, human resources, and leading reform initiatives. He also served at the Privy Council Office and at Public Safety Canada. From 2008 – 2014, he was head of the Canadian Police College, during which time he also served as the RCMP Senior Envoy to Mexico and the Americas.

Micheal Vonn

Micheal Vonn is a lawyer and has been the Policy Director of the BCCLA since 2004. She has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia in the Faculty of Law and in the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies where she has taught civil liberties and information ethics. She’s also a regular guest instructor for UBC’s College of Health Disciplines Interdisciplinary Elective in HIV/AIDS Care. Ms Vonn’s been honoured for her work in HIV/AIDS with both an AccolAIDS Award and a Red Ribbon Award, and she is the recipient of the 2015 Keith Sacré Library Champion Award. She’s currently a collaborator on Big Data Surveillance, a multi-year research projected lead by Queens University. She’s an Advisory Board Member of Ryerson University’s Centre for Free Expression and an Advisory Board Member of Privacy International.

MODERATOR:

Professor Ron Levi holds the George Ignatieff Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto, where he serves as Deputy Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs, and is an Associate Professor of Global Affairs and Sociology. He is a sociologist and legal scholar, whose research focuses on the legal and political dimensions of justice system responses to violence, crime, and human rights violations. Prof. Levi is a past Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He launched a Global Justice Lab at the Munk School, and was awarded the University of Toronto’s Ludwik and Estelle Jus Memorial Human Rights Prize. He holds an appointment as Permanent Visiting Professor in the University of Copenhagen’s Centre of Excellence for International Courts.

POLICING READERS: PART ONE

Sharry Flett

Sharry Flett has acted in theatres across Canada and played leading roles at the Stratford Festival (4 seasons) and the Shaw Festival (28 seasons). She will appear in “Me And My Girl” and “1837 A Farmer’s Revolt” for the 2017 Shaw season. She was twice nominated for Gemini Awards as Best Actress (CBC TV Drama). She’s also taught acting at the Shaw Festival, George Brown Theatre School, University of Toronto, Queen’s University, and the National Theatre School in Montreal.

RH Thomson

Acclaimed Canadian stage and screen actor RH Thomson, was awarded in 2015 the prestigious Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, was the recipient of the 2014 ACTRA Toronto Award of Excellence. He was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 2010 and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Toronto, Trinity College. Recently, Mr. Thomson directed The Crucible at Theatre Calgary and performed in You Will Remember Me at the Tarragon Theatre. He is currently playing Matthew Cuthbert in the CBC/NETFLIX series ANNE and producing the Canadian and international WWI Commemoration project The World Remembers- Le Monde se souvient.

EVENT HOST:

Greg Kelly is the Executive Producer of the CBC Radio One program IDEAS. After completing his doctorate in literature at Oxford University, Greg Kelly left the academy to begin working at the CBC Radio — in fact, his first foray into broadcasting was at IDEAS. His work in both radio and television has won international awards. In 2006, Greg left the CBC to create and oversee a daily NPR current affairs program, The Story, which was carried by over 100 affiliates. He then went to Radio Netherlands Worldwide, where he became Editor of the internationally-acclaimed program The State We’re In, which won numerous awards and was carried nationally in the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland as well as select markets in India and Africa. He returned to Canada in the autumn of 2013, and is now an Associate Senior Fellow of Massey College.

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Registration is not required for this event.

Co-organized by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies and the University of Toronto’s Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Chair of Holocaust Studies, this event explores the intersections of religion, ethno-nationalism, fascism, antisemitism, and violence in the era of the world wars. By analyzing the ways in which religious groups, institutions, and networks engaged political and social upheaval in and beyond Europe, we hope to identify broader patterns that can deepen our understanding of the dynamics shaping the roles of religious actors before and during the Holocaust.

By bringing together scholars, teachers, students, and community members, the Mandel Center’s outreach symposia seek to enrich campus dialogue and forge connections with diverse audiences that will ensure the vitality of Holocaust studies in an increasingly interdisciplinary and multicultural academic landscape. The Mandel Center’s Programs on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust focus on the history of the churches’ response to the Holocaust, the roles of different religious communities during that period, and the ways in which religious institutions, leaders, and theologians have addressed this history and its legacy since 1945.

The Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Chair of Holocaust Studies is located within the Department of History and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. Its goals are to produce and promote world-class scholarship on the Holocaust, to train undergraduate and especially graduate students in Holocaust Studies, and to connect researchers in Canada with their international counterparts. In keeping with its commitment to making high-quality research widely accessible, the Wolfe Chair welcomes the public at many of its events.

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In September 1945, a few months after the end of World War II, a group of young soccer enthusiasts founded a soccer association in the largest refugee and expellee camp in southwestern Germany. Through the meandering history of this remarkable soccer association, special attention is paid to the reciprocal effects of two mass phenomena: sports and migrant camps. The paper highlights the relevance of sports in the long-term process of integration of 12.5 million refugees and expellees into postwar German society.

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Municipal governments across Canada are increasingly looking to inter-municipal agreements as a way to share the costs and delivery of some local services. As this practice increases, it is important to have a better understanding of the benefits and consequences of service sharing in Canadian communities. How well are these agreements working? What challenges do municipalities face? What are the pitfalls of entering into these arrangements? This half-day conference brings together academics and practitioners to examine inter-municipal agreements and service sharing in Canadian municipalities and Indigenous communities.

Seating is limited and registration is required.

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Registration is not required for this event.

Panel discussion with:

Rebecca Carter-Chand, Clark University
Diana Dumitru, Ion Creanga State Pedagogical University, Moldova
Aileen Friesen, University of Waterloo
Mark Jantzen, Bethel College, Kansas
Robert Nelson, University of Windsor
Robert Teigrob, Ryerson University

moderated by
Doris Bergen, University of Toronto

Munk School of Global Affairs, room 108N
1 Devonshire Place

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The world is faced with the necessary, if unasked for, task of effectively countering globally coordinated and financed extremist-based terrorism. This lecture presents Professor Fang’s comprehensive structural approach that China is utilizing to counter that threat. Under the title of “The Law of Triangle Motion,” the synergistic interactions between a) government leadership, b) psychologically informed, legislative, educational, economic and defensive countermeasures to extremist ideology, and c) involvement of the people and society, will be described in detail. Complimentary political mechanisms will be discussed.
Note this lecture will be translated live by translator

Qiang Fang is a Professor at Northwest University of Political Science and Law in Xi’an, and one of China’s pioneers in the field of legal (forensic) psychology and a pioneer and leading contributor to Chinese research on extremism and terrorism. He was awarded the titles of “Outstanding Expert” and “Prominent Jurist” along with an “Expert Prize” and an “Allowance for Life” from the State Department of China. He was also a writer for the Chinese Encyclopedia, the Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychology, and the Chinese Contemporary Psychology Textbook. Professor Fang’s works have received various awards including: An Introduction to Legal Psychology, The Shanxi Provincial First Prize for Outstanding achievement in the Philosophical and Social Sciences, and the Shanxi Provincial Education Committee’s Humanity Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award.

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Municipalities are crucial stakeholders in climate change. They are a major source of greenhouse gas emissions and, due to their higher building and population densities, will also bear the brunt of the economic and social costs imposed by extreme weather events. Can Ontario municipalities rely on debt financing mechanisms to pay for critical mitigation and adaptation projects? Can debt financing be “green”? On June 21, IMFG post-doctoral fellow Gustavo Carvalho will talk about climate financing in Ontario cities, looking at financial instruments and strategies that have been successfully implemented elsewhere, with a focus on green bonds, environmental impact bonds, and green banks.

Space is limited and registration is required.