EJQ4 - Spring 2025 - Journal - Page 46
Manitoba Appoints Clean Energy Commission
Climate Action Champion Receives Medal
The Manitoba government has appointed a new chair
and board members to the Clean Environment Commission (CEC), a provincial government agency which focuses on a range of initiatives such as providing resources and oversight to projects that impact the environment,
programs for sites impacted by development, forest management approvals, and regional cumulative e昀昀ects assessments.
Dr. Blair Feltmate, head of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation in the Faculty of Environment at the
University of Waterloo was recently awarded the prestigious King Charles III Coronation Medal. Senator Rosa
Galvez presented the medal to him in recognition of his
pivotal role in advancing climate change adaptation e昀昀orts
nationwide.
Aimée Craft will serve as chair of the CEC. Craft is an associate professor in the
faculty of law at the University of Ottawa. A respected legal scholar and advocate for Indigenous and environmental law, Craft has long been a leader in advancing reconciliation, water governance, and sustainable decision-making.
During Feltmate’s early career, he was at the forefront of bringing the newly
emerging discipline of sustainable development, now referred to as Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG), to Canadian business and the capital markets.
After nearly 20 years in the 昀椀eld of sustainable development, Feltmate turned his
attention to climate change and zeroed in on the need for Canada to prepare for
increasingly costly 昀氀ooding, wild昀椀re and extreme heat.
“The future and the environment matter to all Manitobans,” said Craft. “The CEC
helps ensure that principled recommendations about past, ongoing and potential
environmental impact are made through fair processes and that diverse types of
knowledge can inform environmental decision-making in the province.”
Over the past decade, Feltmate has emerged as Canada’s leading spokesperson on climate risk, regularly advocating in the public and private sectors, that
“every day we don’t adapt is a day we don’t have.”
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