Saturday Spotlight Series Maheep manages the Community Climate Hubs. Prior to this, he worked as a Fellowship Coordinator and Partnerships Specialist at Student Energy, Special Assistant to a Member of Parliament and as a Junior Consultant for the Enlight Solar Academy in Uganda. He has a Bachelors of Global and International Studies from Carleton University, which is also where he co-founded and led organizations including Climate Action Carleton, and the student union’s su

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Muriel Vincent, Communications and Social Media Manager The Climate Reality Project Canada Email: mvincent@climatereality.ca Cell: (514) 963-8405 MONTREAL, July 14th, 2021 The Climate Reality Project Canada is excited to announce the launch of its very first Campus Climate Action Summit this summer. As university students represent a key demographic at the forefront of climate activism, this Summit is bringing together a fellowship of 29 post

Saturday Spotlight Series Karel Mayrand is the President and CEO of the Foundation of Greater Montréal. Before that, he has been for twelve years Director General for Quebec and the Atlantic with the David Suzuki Foundation, and chair of Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project in Canada. He is also Vice-President of the board of Société du Parc Jean-Drapeau. Karel is co-author of Demain, le Québec (Éditions La Presse, 2018), author of Une Voix pour la Terre (Boréal, 2012), co-autho

Saturday Spotlight Series Tonio is Senior Director of Environment, Lands and Water at the Assembly of First Nations (Canada), and is involved in a variety of related initiatives, including sitting as a board member of Climate Reality Canada, and participating as a Principle Investigator for the Food, Environment, Health and Nutrition of First Nations Children and Youth (FEHNCY) study. He has a PhD from Simon Fraser University (2008) and teaches in the Faculty of Social Scienc

Saturday Spotlight Series Jean-François Barsoum has over 20 years of experience at IBM where his focus is on understanding and communicating the societal and environmental impacts of technology. He was part of the core team that built the smart city concepts in the early 2000s. Currently, his main objective is to communicate and popularise climate change solutions, smart city innovations, and the potential impacts of new mobility – such as the emergence of autonomous vehicles