2021 edition
ABOUT
Live from the COP
Greta and the big van
Maya Cousineau Mollen
Poetess Cassandre
My darling you will feel lonely
In front of the bituminous monsters
Your courage as a warrior
Be an example and resonate
Warrior loneliness for a planet
Exhausted from her humanity virus
Last call before the requiem
The one who will sing about our extinction
My dreams are burning
My future echoes
It is cemetery
I walk among the carcasses
Sea elves
Troubadour dolphins
Courteous Belugas
I lie down next to them
I deliver them from me
Kahnawà delegation: ke Collective Impact
Carlee Kawinehta Loft, Julie Delisle, Karahkwinetha Goodleaf, and Ohontsakéhte Montour
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Our Debriefing team
Almost every day accredited people attending COP-26 in Scotland summarize the day's key points and answer questions from civil society.
In addition we will publish a summary of each day on our negotiation in brief page
Director of domestic policies Climate Action Network (CAN-Rac)
Union Advisor - Environment and Just Transition Federation of Workers of Quebec
Executive Director of ENvironnement JEUnesse
Analyst - Mobility at Équiterre
Program Manager at Climate Reality Canada | Climate reality Canada
Analyst - Climate policies and ecological transition at Équiterre
First week of negotiations
MON 1 NOV
SUMMIT OF LEADERS
Welcoming women and men leaders from around the world to the Conference of the Parties to present high-level ambitions and actions to ensure a net zero rate globally and to maintain a threshold of 1.5 ° C at within reach, adapt to protect communities and natural habitats, and mobilize funding.
MON 1 NOV
8: 00-9: 30 am Climate ambition breakfast
André-Yanne Parent
Executive Director of the Climate Reality Project Canada
Kanahsohon kevin deer
From the Mohaw community of Kahnawake. For the past 30 years, he has been involved in the conservation and revitalization of the Mohawk language. He is also a Keeper of Spiritual Knowledge at the Mohawk Trail Longhouse, which involves knowledge of sacred songs, dances and rituals.
Caroline Brouillette
Director of domestic policies Climate Action Network (CAN-Rac)
Marouane Joundi
Research master's candidate in political science and teaching assistant at the University of Montreal
Ambition Ambition Ambition ! This leitmotif animates COP-26. It's no secret, keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels and guarding against the dangerous effects of climate change requires increased ambition on all key aspects. of the climate agenda.
Join our climate ambition breakfast! Get the tools to better understand climate change, understand what is meant by ambition and understand the role that Quebec can play at the heart of its negotiations.
It will also be an opportunity to question the issues of justice and solidarity that this COP poses. The current circumstances: inequitable access to vaccines and exorbitant costs of participation mean that those facing the most disproportionate impacts of the climate crisis will not be well represented at the negotiating table. Questioning the credibility of the process .
11:30 am-12:30pm Debriefing
MON 1 NOV
We find our team on site who will give us the results of this first opening day, which aims to welcome leaders from around the world to the Conference of the Parties so that they present high-level ambitions and actions in view. keep a 1.5 ° C threshold within reach, adapt to protect communities and natural habitats and mobilize funding
Register by filling out the registration form
MON 1 NOV
13h00-14h15 No more excuses: the latest IPCC report
Frédéric bouchard
Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Geomatics at the University of Sherbrooke
Annie chaloux
Professor at the School of Applied Politics at the University of Sherbrooke
Alejandro Di Luca
Main author of the latest IPCC report
Last August, a report on the scientific elements of climate change was published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The conclusions drawn there cannot be clearer: unless there are immediate, rapid and massive reductions in GHG emissions, limiting warming to 1.5 ° C or below 2 ° C will no longer be possible. And that would result in the failure of the primary objective of the Paris Agreement.
So, to better understand the main lines and the main findings of the latest IPCC report and its impact on the negotiations, but also the role of this world reference organization on climate change, come and listen to our experts on the subject!
TUE 2 NOV
SUMMIT OF LEADERS
Welcoming women and men leaders from around the world to the Conference of the Parties to present high-level ambitions and actions to ensure a net zero rate globally and to maintain a threshold of 1.5 ° C at within reach, adapt to protect communities and natural habitats, and mobilize funding.
TUE 2 NOV
9h00-10h00 The Climatoscope breakfast: COP-26 one more COP?
Hugo seguin
Fellow at the Center for International Studies and Research of the University of Montreal (CÉRIUM) and Associate Researcher at the Center for Studies on Integration and Globalization (CÉIM)
Annie chaloux
Professor at the School of Applied Politics at the University of Sherbrooke
Géraud De Lassus Saint-Geniès
Assistant professor at the Faculty of Law of Laval University.
CoPs are often criticized and their usefulness questioned, not without reason. After 25 years of great meetings, thousands of hours of negotiations and results that still seem too unambitious, it is legitimate to question the usefulness of COPs. But the fact remains that behind this COP-26 lies an essential truth, governments can no longer pretend and must show ambition.
So if you too are wondering what the CoPs are for and how the negotiations in Glasgow will be different join this breakfast.
TUE 2 NOV
10:30 a.m.-12: 00 p.m. Prevention is better than cure: public health in the age of climate change
Melissa Generous
Specialist in public health and preventive medicine and associate professor at the University of Sherbrooke
Celine Campagna
Holder of a doctorate in animal sciences from Laval University, she is an establishment researcher at the National Institute of Public Health of Quebec (INSPQ)
Dr. Claudel Pétrin-Desrosiers
Family physician at the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve CLSC and clinical lecturer in the Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine at the University of Montreal
Gabriel Blouin Genest
Associate Professor, School of Applied Politics, University of Sherbrooke. Scientific Co-Director, CIDIS (Interdisciplinary Center for International Health Development), Université de Sherbrooke
As COP-26 nears, more than 400 international health organizations and professionals, representing two-thirds of the world's health workers, signed an open letter calling on policymakers to consider the benefits of l climate action for health.
Yet while the effects of climate change on the health of individuals, but also on our entire health system are already being felt, most climate decision-making processes fail to consider the health benefits. There is no miracle cure for this problem, but achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement is already a good start. Solutions are available to us, come and discuss them and make health a game of climate ambition.
We find our team live from COP-26 who will take stock of this opening day, which aims to welcome leaders from around the world to the Conference of the Parties so that they present ambitions and actions of high level in order to keep a threshold of 1.5 ° C within reach, adapt to protect communities and natural habitats and mobilize funding.
TUE 2 NOV
2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Canadian Carbon Neutral Accountability Act and Beyond?
Lisa Gue
Researcher and Principal Analyst at the David Suzuki Foundation
Sarah houde
General Manager of Propulsion Québec
Rodrigue Turgeon
lawyer at the Quebec Environmental Law Center
Jerome Lussier
Director of Parliamentary Affairs for Senator Miville-Dechêne in the Senate of Canada.
Karine Peloffy
Parliamentary and legal affairs advisor since 2019 to Senator Rosa Galvez.
The Canadian Carbon Neutral Accountability Act, (LCRMC), explicitly mentions the Paris Agreement and Canada's international commitments on climate change. There is no doubt that the race for carbon neutrality has already started and Canada, with its LCRMC, has given itself a roadmap to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. But nothing prevents it from reaching it sooner!
Let's discuss the future of this law, its implementation given the urgency to act! But also of the role that we can play in its full application for the good of present and future generations.
TUE 2 NOV
4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Quebec's fair share in the global effort to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 ° C
Caroline Brouillette
Director of domestic policies Climate Action Network (CAN-Rac)
Francois Geoffroy
Co-founder and spokesperson of La Planète invites himself to Parliament
Union Advisor - Environment and Just Transition Federation of Workers of Quebec
Alix Ruhlmann Committed citizen, after having taken part in three rounds of international negotiations
Christian Holz is Senior Research Associate at the Climate Equity Reference Project - and the Executive Director of the Climate Equity Reference Project Canada.
Animation Karel Mayrand
President and CEO at Foundation of Greater Montreal
No country can solve the climate crisis on its own, which is why we need to achieve unprecedented levels of international collaboration. And, it's hard to imagine implementing such a collaboration without everyone contributing their fair share to the global effort.
This principle of fair share does not apply only to countries, but can extend to entities such as provinces, cities, or even individuals. So in this context, it is legitimate to ask: "What is Quebec's fair share in the global fight against climate change and how can it implement it?" "
Join this conversation to learn more about Quebec's fair share and the means at our disposal to implement it.
Report published by the Climate Action Network Canada aiming to assess Quebec's fair share in the global response to the issue of climate change, starting by recognizing that equity is a principle important - necessary - to respond to climate change
TO COMING VERY SOON
WED 3 NOV
8h00-9h00 The climate finance breakfast
Eddy Perez
Head of international climate diplomacy CAN-Rac
Alexandre gajevic
Professor in the political science department at Laval University.
Mobilizing global finance is one of the stated goals of the COP-26 presidency. But in concrete terms, what does climate finance cover, what are its levers for action and where are we in collecting 100 billion US dollars per year by 2020 for developing countries?
After this breakfast, climate finance will have no more secrets for you!
TO COMING VERY SOON
WED 3 NOV
10:00 am-11:30am Climate change: the mad rush of biodiversity decline
“Climate change and biodiversity loss are two of the most pressing issues of the Anthropocene,” says the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) in its report released last summer. The figures presented there are alarming: about half of the area of coral reefs and more than 85% of the global area of wetlands have disappeared as of today. Under the most pessimistic scenarios, rapid climate change could wipe out up to 90% of all species. It is no longer time to sound the alarm, but to act.
To learn about the main impacts of climate change on biodiversity and the existing synergies between climate and ecosystems, but also to understand how international commitments such as the Paris Agreement and the Convention on Biological Diversity lay the foundations for governance for the climate and the preservation of biodiversity, come and join us on this panel!
Dominique Gravel - Professor at the University of Sherbrooke and Holder of the Canada Research Chair in Integrative Ecology
Dominique Berteaux -Professor in ecology at the University of Quebec at Rimouski and holder of the Canada Research Chair in Northern Biodiversity.
Animation, Diego Creimer
Manager - Nature solutions for the climate and government relations at the Society for Nature and Parks (SNAP Quebec).
Ahmed Djoghlaf- Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity from 2006 to 2012 and associate professor at the University of Sherbrooke
WED 3 NOV
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Debriefing
We find our team live from COP-26 who will take stock of this day of negotiations which aims to mobilize financial flows.
WED 3 NOV
4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Climate finance: what role for Quebec and Canada internationally?
In 2009, rich countries agreed to increase climate finance for the poorest countries to reach 100 billion dollars per year by 2020. At the Paris climate summit in 2015 (COP21), this objective was extended until 'in 2025.
But beyond a monetary commitment from rich countries, what does this funding represent? Why are the public funds of Quebeckers being used in the fight against climate change? Concretely, how is it deployed in the countries?
Josée Michaud, Director of Programs and Mobilization at the Ministry of the Environment and the Fight against Climate Change (MELCC)
Caroline Mailloux, Program Officer - Food Security and Environment, Oxfam-Québec
Sue Szabo is Executive Director of Global Affairs Canada's Office of Innovative and Climate Finance
Dr Parfait BLALOGOE, Executive Director of the Center for Research and Expertise for Local Development (CREDL), Benin
Moderator: Denis Côté, Policy Analyst at the Quebec Association of International Cooperation Organizations (AQOCI)
THU 4 NOV
Accelerate the global transition to clean energy.
THU 4 NOV
8h00-9h00 Energy breakfast
Karine Peloffy
Parliamentary and legal affairs advisor since 2019 to Senator Rosa Galvez.
Sarah houde
General Manager of Propulsion Québec
Johanne whitmore
Principal researcher at the Chair in Energy Sector Management at HEC Montréal
Vincent Moreau Executive Vice-President at Écotech Québec
Energy is at the heart of the climate change emergency and yet the word is never spoken in the Paris Agreement. This fourth day of negotiations aims accelerating the global transition to clean energy.
So, over the course of this breakfast, let's explore how the energy transition that we are urged to adopt represents a real collective challenge. Let's question together how we consume energy and where it comes from to better address the challenges of energy transition
THU 4 NOV
10:00 am-11:30am Getting out of hydrocarbons, yes, but how?
Karine Peloffy
Parliamentary and legal affairs advisor since 2019 to Senator Rosa Galvez.
Anne-Celine Guyon
Climate project manager at Nature Québec as.
Sarah Couturier
As Head of Shareholder Engagement and Advocacy at SHARE
Sari Sairanen
Unifor Union
Specialist, Communications and Public Affairs at the David Suzuki Foundation
The challenge of climate change is also that of decarbonization, the process by which fossil fuels represent a less and less important part of energy consumption with the long-term objective of zero consumption of this type of energy. .
Citizen engagement for decarbonization and a just transition has never been so important, so let's discuss this inevitable exit from hydrocarbons and the levers of action at our disposal to ultimately enhance climate ambition.
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Debriefing
GAME 4 NOV
We find our team live from COP-26 who will give us the results of this day of negotiations on energy.
GAME 4 NOV
2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Transition to clean energies: what and how ?
Mathieu Levesque
Consultant at Dunsky Energy + Climate
Philippe Tanguy
General Manager of Polytechnique Montréal since January 2018.
Vincent Moreau
Executive Vice-President at Écotech Québec
The International Energy Agency in its annual report published two weeks before COP-26, recalls that if we do not invest more heavily and quickly in clean energy, the world will suffer the consequences a global warming of more than 1.5 degrees: “batteries, hydrogen, electric vehicles… All these sectors are opposed by the resistance of the status quo and fossil fuels”.
But when it comes to clean energy, what types of energy are we really talking about and what kind of transition are we talking about? Join this round table to equip yourself and understand the challenges of a transition to clean energies.
Animation Jean-Pierre Finet, analyst at the Regroupement des Organizations Environnementaux en Energie (Environmental Bodies in Energy) will lead your panel.
GAME 4 NOV
3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Entering the world of carbon pricing mechanisms
Full professor in the decision-making sciences department of HEC Montréal and holder of the chair in energy sector management
Renaud Gignac
Climate policy expert.
Stéphane Legros, MELCC
Guy Drouin
Company manager, Biothermica Corporation vice-chairman of the board of Bioenergy Haiti and co-chairman of the ecofiscal committee of Écotech Québec
Animation, Caroline Lee has a diversified experience in the analysis of international climate and energy policies.
Carbon pricing mechanisms are probably at the heart of the measures that Canada will take to achieve its greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets by 2030, with a view to becoming carbon neutral by 2050. Québec is not not left out and also uses this type of measure to achieve its own targets. It is even a cost effective way to reduce emissions.
The only problem is that carbon pricing only works if the mechanisms are well designed. So where are we, what are the challenges of the Canadian and Quebec approaches?
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Debriefing
Fri 5 NOV
We find our team live from COP-26 who will take stock of this fifth day which focused on: the need to make the voices of young people heard and to demonstrate the essential role of education and public empowerment in climate action
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Post-secondary education: a pivotal moment to experience new spaces of empowerment and mobilization ?
Post-secondary education is a time when there are many opportunities to get involved, to experience community life within organizations, or to sharpen one's sense of activism! These opportunities help empower students in their current and future mobilization for a just ecological transition.
Different groups or institutions also aim to support students in their ambitions to change things. What are these spaces of empowerment and mobilization that emerge during college and university studies? And how could these be further promoted and supported?
Join this dialogue that will immerse us in this pivotal and highly inspiring moment in life that is post-secondary education!
Samya lemrini
Intern at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | Immigration Lawyer | Master's Candidate in International Law and Applied International Politics (LL. M.)
Pierre Cossette
Rector of the University of Sherbrooke since June 2017,
François Delwaide, Environmental and social economy advisor, Development of institutional projects and educational activities in the environment, Collège Ahuntsic confirmed
Pierre Lemay, Assistant to the Vice-Rector of the Vice-Rectorate for External and International Affairs and Health, Université Laval
Leeloo Vernet
Member of the Ecothèque and student at Université de Montréal
Albert Lalonde
member and co-spokesperson of the Pour le futur Montréal collective. Founding member of the Student Coalition for an Environmental and Social Shift (CEVES).
Animation, Daphnée Mongeau, Youth Engagement Coordinator, Climate Reality Canada.
SAT 6 NOV
Ensuring the importance of nature and sustainable land use is part of global action on climate change and a clean and green recovery.
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Debriefing
SAT 6 NOV
We find our team live from COP-26 who will take stock of this day. which aims to ensure the importance of nature and the sustainable use of soils.
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. An Intergenerational Dialogue
SAT 6 NOV
Severn Cullis-Suzuki - Environmental and cultural activist, speaker and author, Severn now takes on the role of Executive Director of the David Suzuki Foundation.
David Suzuki - World renowned geneticist and journalist David Suzuki co-founded the David Suzuki Foundation in 1990.
Ellen Gabriel - Mohawk Land Defender, appointed by the Kanehsatà: ke to be the spokesperson during the Oka Crisis in 1990. She has continued her work as a human rights activist ever since.
Samuel Rainville: Ambassador in Mikana, Samuel is a young indigenous climate and social justice activist.
The panel will be moderated by:
Melissa Mollen Dupuis - Indigenous activist, producer, radio show host and boreal forest activist at the David Suzuki Foundation.
Join this intergenerational panel that will discuss the climate emergency and ways to work for environmental and social justice.
Second week of negotiations
MON 8
08h00-9h00 Breakfast adaptation loss and harm
Laurent Lepage
Associate Professor, Institute of Environmental Sciences of UQAM (ISE)
Natalia Torres Orozco
Research professional and project manager, CIDIS (Interdisciplinary Center for International Health Development)
The effects of climate change are being felt: health, livelihoods, crops and lifestyles are lost or damaged. And, as there are limits to the ability of countries to adapt to the inevitable impacts of climate change, the loss and damage component has been developed.
But what does the loss and damage adaptation triptych cover and what places do they occupy at the international and local level?
Join this breakfast to learn more
MON 8
10:30 a.m.-12: 00 p.m. How to ensure agricultural succession at a time of the climate crisis?
In a world where climate change is making agriculture more and more risky and less and less predictable, how to attract young people to this sector? Are the challenges the same in Quebec and elsewhere?
Véronique Bouchard, family farmer and agronomist, Ferme Aux Petits Oignons, Mont-Tremblant, Quebec
Véronique Simard-Brochu, Public Affairs Coordinator, Quebec Federation of Young Farmers (FRAQ), UPA Capitale-Nationale-Côte-Nord
Duince Ahossouhe
President of the Youth College
of the National Platform
farmers' organizations
and agricultural producers
in Benin
Animation: Caroline Mailloux, Program Officer - Food Security and Environment, Oxfam-Québec
Sibalo Azeita Koussoube Program Officer, Livelihoods and Value Chain program at Oxfam Burkina Faso
Simon brault
College teacher Technical program
Agricultural business management and technologies
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Debriefing
MON 8
We find our team live from the COP-26 who will give us the results of this day of negotiations adaptation losses and damages.
MON 8
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Beyond the climate fight: climate justice ?
Sabaa Khan is Executive Director for Quebec and the Atlantic at the David Suzuk Foundation
Joëlle Vincent, M.SC. , CRHA is the founder of Viaconseil and President of the Board of Directors of the East Montreal Chamber of Commerce
Denise Byrnes
First woman to lead Oxfam-Québec since its founding.
Felix Lorrain Landry
M.Sc., doctoral student at
the University of Quebec in Outaouais
We often hear the expression 'climate justice'. But is it just a synonym for 'fighting climate change'? Why is the concept of justice essential to climate discussions and negotiations?
During this panel, links will be forged between the issues of climate and environmental injustices that are priorities in Montreal, Canada and around the world. Who are the populations most affected by the climate crisis and how? What tools do we have to restore balance? What is the place of citizen power in this battle?
TUE 9 NOV
Science and innovation genre
Advance gender equality and the full participation of women and girls in climate action. - Demonstrate that science and innovation can provide solutions to the climate problem in order to respond to, and accelerate, the increase in ambitions.
EXCEPTIONALLY 8: 00-9: 00 a.m. Debriefing
TUE 9
Exceptionally, this morning we find our team live from COP-26 who will take stock of this day which focused on gender and innovation and aimed to advance gender equality and the full participation of women. women and girls to climate action. While demonstrating that science and innovation can provide solutions to the climate problem in order to respond to, and accelerate, the increase in ambitions.
TUE 9 10:00 am-11:00am
CANCELED
A conversation in favor of the protection of Biodiversity and Climate
TUE 9
12h00-13h30 Youth mobilization: a key player in climate ambition ?
From North to South, in very different social conditions, the voice of the current leadership of young people is heard by an assumed role of mobilization agent who pushes citizens to climate action. Locally, nationally and even at the heart of international climate negotiations, young people organize actions that have an impact in this urgent fight and that push us to raise our climate ambitions. Come and hear the echoes of this movement that is going forward and that we cannot stop!
Kathia Narcisse, co-chair of the FTQ youth committee
Simon such
President, Force Jeunesse
Florence lachapelle
Activist for CEVES - the student coalition for an environmental and social shift
Lise goin
Assistant in the Biodiversity Economy Transformation and Innovation Unit, University of Montreal student
Alexandre Gubert Lette
Journalist and environmental activist, Mock COP member / Oxfam partner
Léa Ilardo, citizen mobilization project manager at the David Suzuki Foundation
4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Women and climate change: common experiences?
What is the lived experience of women who engage, either professionally or voluntarily, in the fight against climate change? What is the contribution of a feminist approach to climate change? What are the various female and feminist experiences of climate engagement? Eco-anxiety and caring work: what is the influence of gender? What reflection should this reality have in the climate negotiations?
Jena webb
volunteer at Mères au front and founder of "Mères au front - Rosemère and its surroundings
Isabelle de Champlain-Bringué
Gender Justice and Women's Rights Program Officer, Oxfam-Québec
Amandine Gournay, M. Env.
Sustainable development advisor and gender and environment project manager
Network of women in the environment