News and Events
February 24 - Scott Vaughan (Canada’s new Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable
Development)
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TOPIC: “Measuring Canada’s Environmental Performance: what works, what doesn’t, and why”
January 21 – Stewart Elgie
- TOPIC: Carving Up the Climate: The Constitutional Landmines of Regulating Greenhouse Gases
February 4 – Heather McLeod-Kilmurray and Lynda Collins
- TOPIC: Toxic Battery
IUCN Academy of Environmental Law
The IUCN Academy of Environmental Law is a consortium of specialised research centres in university law faculties. In January 2005 the Secretariat moved to the University of Ottawa Law Faculty.
Environmental Law Lunch Series
Since 1996 the faculty has hosted the Environmental Law Lunch Series with speakers drawn from the ranks of professionals and practitioners around Ottawa, public officials and visitors to the capital. Presentations typically focus on current legislative and policy developments with plenty of time for questions and discussion amongst participants. Previous speakers have included environmental consultants such as Francois Bregha, John Moffet and Hajo Versteeg, government officials, parliamentarians and members of environmental agencies such as David McGuinty (National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy), Fred Roots (Science Advisor Emeritus, Environment Canada), Brian Emmett (Commissioner of Environment and Sustainable Development), Heather Smith (Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency), David Near (Environment Canada), Anne Daniel (Environment Canada), Avrim Lazar (Environment Canada), Hon. Charles Caccia (House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development), and Sarah Richardson (Commission for Environmental Cooperation).