Members of the media may directly contact:
Sarah E. Sharma (English only)
Assistant Professor, School of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, and member of the Institute of the Environment.
sarahe.sharma@uottawa.ca
Professor Sharma's research interests include climate policies, environmental governance and geopolitics of global energy transitions.
“The resignation of a long-time cabinet member Steven Guilbeault marks two former climate ministers (alongside Catherine McKenna) publicly rejecting the Liberal government’s approach to governing our fossil fuel industry. Building new pipelines is not only a threat to our climate goals, it is an economically risky endeavour that diverts resources and energy away from reorienting the Canadian economy forward in a modern way.
It is also a political matter that threatens provincial unity and other nation building projects – a key goal of this government – while cementing Canada’s inability to meet our legally required net-zero targets. At this point, given that there is a lack of private interest to finance the building of pipelines, it is a disappointing and short-sighted approach that threatens both domestic wellbeing and international leadership on matters of sustainable development.”
Nicholas Rivers (English only)
Full Professor, School of Public and International Affairs and member of the Institute of the Environment.
nrivers@uottawa.ca
Professor Rivers’ research interests include air pollution, climate change and the economic evaluation of environmental policies.
Geoff McCarney (English only)
Associate Professor, School of International Development & Global Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, and Executive Director, Institute of the Environment.
gmccarne@uottawa.ca
Professor McCarney's expertise includes areas of environmental, natural resource and development economics, with specific projects focused on a range of issues related to climate change impacts on natural resource use, the impacts of carbon markets on sustainable forest management in Canada.
He can speak to how the MOU can be seen as one piece of a still-emerging new climate competitiveness strategy.
Nathalie Chalifour (English and French)
Full Professor with the Centre for Environmental Law and Global Sustainability at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
Nathalie.Chalifour@uottawa.ca(no radio/tv requests, please)
Professor Chalifour’s research lies at the intersection of environment law, economics and social justice, with a focus on climate change.
Myriam Grégoire-Zawilski (English and French)
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences
Professor Grégoire-Zawilski's expertise relates to environmental and innovation policy.