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Date:
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
8:00am-3:30pm
Location:
Calgary, Alberta
Hotel Alma, Senate Room
169 University Gate Northwest
Calgary, AB T2N 1N4
Cost:
Attendance is free, by invite only.
Confirmed Speakers:
Nick Johnstone- Head, Structural Policy Division, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, OECD.
Peter Nicholson- Inaugural President, The Council of Canadian Academies; former Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, Office of the Prime Minister of Canada; former Special Advisor to the Secretary-General of the OECD; Member, Order of Canada.
Richard Hawkins- Professor, Science, Technology and Society Program, University of Calgary.
Alan Nymark- Chairman of the Centre for the Study of Living Standards and Former Deputy Minister of the Environment; Steering Committee member, Sustainable Prosperity.
Stewart Elgie- Professor of Law and Economics, Director of the Institute of the Environment, University of Ottawa; Chair, Sustainable Prosperity.
Richard Newell- Former Administrator, U.S. Energy Information Administration; Gendell Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics at the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University; former Senior Economist for Energy and Environment, President's Council of Economic Advisors.
Additional speakers to be announced.
Objective:
Accelerating clean innovation across all parts of the economy, including oil and gas, will be increasingly critical to Canada's economic and environmental well-being in a changing world. This conference focuses on how to do that: particularly the key role that governments can play -- through smart policy, investment, spending, etc. It brings together top global and Canadian experts from academia, government and industry.
Key Questions for Discussion:
How does clean innovation occur in Canada?
How and where is there a role for public intervention? In what areas is government action needed, either alone or in tandem with private actors?
Where there is a role for public intervention, how can governments intervene most effectively? How can we best design public institutions and processes to promote clean innovation outcomes?
How can government intervention best leverage private actions? And how can we learn from, and build on, existing instruments and institutions in creating more effective approaches?
How do these questions apply to the particular case of clean innovation in the oil sands?
Guest Accommodation:
Preferential rates available (book by March 6 under group name "Clean Innovation Conference")
Hotel Alma at the University of Calgary
169 University Gate NW
Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4
http://www.hotelalma.ca/
Toll Free: 1.877.498.3203
P: 403.220.3203
For any special dietary requests please contact Mercedes Marcano at mmarcano@sustainableprosperity.ca, before March 16.
Register:
By invitation only
Download conference agenda as PDF .
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Special thanks to event sponsor Zerofootprint Carbon for making this event carbon neutral. To offset emissions from your flight, please visit: https://portal.zerofootprint.net/portal/carbon/OffsetFlight .
