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Ontario’s climate change action plan

June 8, 2016

The fol­low­ing is a list of Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to experts who can com­ment on a vari­ety of issues relat­ed to Ontar­i­o’s cli­mate change action plan.

Dan­ny Har­vey, Pro­fes­sor of Geog­ra­phy
Exper­tise: Ontario’s plan, Will it make a dif­fer­ence? Will motorists, home­own­ers and busi­ness­es make the change?
Tel: (416) 778‑0670
Email: harvey@geog.utoronto.ca

Sara Hugh­es, Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor of Polit­i­cal Sci­ence
Exper­tise: Stud­ies strengths and weak­ness­es of how regions tack­le cli­mate change, Ontario’s plan
Tel: (416) 978‑8710, (647) 227‑5045
Email: sara.hughes@utoronto.ca
* Read more about Prof. Hugh­es’ research

Dou­glas Mac­don­ald, Senior lec­tur­er of Envi­ron­ment
Exper­tise: Will the plan affect cli­mate change?
Tel: (416) 686‑0773 this morn­ing, and (416) 978‑1558 in the after­noon
Email: douglas.macdonald@utoronto.ca

Stephen Bede Scharp­er, Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Envi­ron­ment, Depart­ment of Anthro­pol­o­gy
Exper­tise: Envi­ron­men­tal Ethics, Will Ontar­i­ans take the incen­tives, Will the plan work?
Tel:  (416) 978‑7433
Email: stephen.scharper@utoronto.ca (On research leave, but check­ing email)

William Gough, Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Geog­ra­phy
Exper­tise: How will the plan affect cli­mate change
Tel: (416) 606‑5868
Email: gough@utsc.utoronto.ca