The shock of the COVID-19 pandemic provides an excellent opportunity to transition to low-carbon, energy efficient communities through the use of stimulus funding and legislation.

Well over 400 communities in Canada, and over 50 in Ontario, have completed Community Energy Plans. Many of them are now demonstrating continuing implementation efforts driven by aggressive GHG (greenhouse gas) and energy efficiency targets coupled with community demands for climate emergency declarations.

In two separate webinars we will look at; what other successful Ontario communities are doing and then explore best practices from around the world. We are honoured to have two leading experts in this field - Rob Kerr and Dr. Karen Farbridge - as our guests.

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Canadian and Global Best Practices - Dr. Karen Farbridge

7:00 PM on Sep 23, 2020

Dr. Farbridge will provide insight into the best practices that have emerged over the last decade of community energy planning in Canada and globally and how they are accelerating the transition to a low-carbon and energy efficient economies.

About Our Speaker

Dr. Farbridge has over 25 years of experience in change-making in the non-profit, public, and private sectors. She went from grassroots organizing with her early work at the Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG), to a PhD in Zoology, and then she became the first female Mayor in Guelph, after spending years on City Council.

She has a longstanding passion for building sustainable and resilient communities. She has been a leader in various community innovation projects including smart growth, downtown revitalization, open government, neighbourhood development, community wellbeing, resource and natural heritage protection, community energy and municipal governance. She is a respected speaker who has worked to educate on matters of urban interest and community resiliency to broad and diverse audiences both locally and internationally.

Karen is an urban connector that helps communities and governments across the country fight climate change in practical and achievable ways.

Dr. Karen Farbridge received the eMERGE Climate Change Hero award in 2019.

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Tickets for these events: you have to register for each event separately

• $5 ($7.14 including all fees) for each event
• Donation of your choosing
• Free

As you can imagine, the pandemic has brought challenges to eMERGE. If you are able to afford it, we would appreciate you purchasing a ticket for at least $5 - or a donation in an amount of your choosing.

We also want this event to be accessible to everyone. For this reason we also have a 'Free' ticket for those of you that may not be able to afford the ticket price.

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You may also be interested in this event ( earlier date):

What Other Ontario Cities Are Doing - Rob Kerr

7:00 PM on Sep 15 ,2020

This webinar will look at what other successful Ontario communities are doing to drive climate and energy action. Rob will explore how they are establishing the building blocks necessary to achieve the benefits of reaching ambitious climate targets.