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Watch keynote addresses, plenary sessions and episodes of TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin from WGSI’s past Summits – Energy 2030 (June 5-9), Learning 2030 (September 29-October 3), OpenAccess Energy (April 24-27) and Generation SDG (April 22-25). All videos are available on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/c/wgsisummit/playlists

Generation SDG Blueprint Launch at Together
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5
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[Starts at 2:02:24] The launch of the Generation SDG Blueprint on November 5, at…

Advancing Financing for the SDGs – #GenerationSDG
THURSDAY, APRIL 26
Advancing Finance for the SDGs panel

Nicholas Parker, Parker Venture Management

Robert Greenhill

Stephen Huddart, J.W. McConnell Foundation

Jennifer Reynolds, Toronto Financial Services Alliance

Carol Anne Hilton,…

Generation SDG Closing Ceremony

THURSDAY, APRIL 26
Remarks on the closing of the Generation SDG Summit, a multi-disciplinary, multi-sectoral and multi-generational group of people working on the SDGs. A moderated panel of Summit Participants summarize their work.

Speakers:

Ingrid Waldron – Environmental Racism & the Politics of Waste


WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25
It is not lost on many Canadians that Nova Scotia has had a long and rather unique history with racism and has been perceived as being rather slow to address the structural and institutional implications of that history in Indigenous and African Nova Scotian communities. The…

Remarks – Opening Ceremony
MONDAY, APRIL 23
Remarks on the opening of the Generation SDG Summit, a multi-disciplinary, multi-sectoral and multi-generational group of people working on the SDGs, including Solar Energy Reliance.

Speakers:

Katharine Wilkinson of Project Drawdown – #GenerationSDG Opening Keynote
SUNDAY, APRIL 22,
Dr. Katharine Wilkinson delivers a keynote address on Project Drawdown the the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming through solar panels and other technologies, at the opening ceremonies of…

Learning 2030 Blueprint Launch
MONDAY, APRIL 14
Summit Curator Michael Brooks, and Summit participants Sam Levin and Susan Opok discuss the recommendations at WGSI’s Learning 2030 Summit at the World Summit (April 14-16, 2014 – Oxford, UK).

Trusting Partnerships for Climate Resilience & Adaptation in Remote & Indigenous Communities
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21
Official COP22 side event presented by Waterloo Global Science Initiative (WGSI) and The Rockies Institute (TRI) in Marrakech, Morocco.

This session explored …

Presentation of the OpenAccess Energy Communiqué
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27
Panel discussion about the recommendations made to address energy poverty and energy access featuring Michelle Myers (Xeni Gwet’in First Nation, University of…

Going 100% Renewable with Søren Hermansen – #PowerShiftWR
SATURDAY, APRIL 23,
Søren Hermansen was a driving force behind his home’s – Samsø Island, Denmark – transition to 100% renewable energy through solar panels. What lessons can communities all over the world learn from Samsø and the winner of “the environmental Nobel” prize?

WGSI brought organizations in the…

The Energy Access Revolution – Daniel Kammen
FRIDAY, APRIL 22
Keynote address from Daniel Kammen, Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy at the University of California, Berkeley, on the science and policy innovation needed to achieve universal energy access at the opening ceremony of WGSI’s OpenAccess Solar Energy Summit (April 22-…

OpenAccess Energy Summit Opening Panel
FRIDAY, APRIL 22
Panel discussion about the current global state of energy poverty and energy access featuring voices Jatin Nathwani (Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy),…

OpenAccess Energy Summit Opening Remarks
FRIDAY, APRIL 22
Opening remarks of WGSI’s OpenAccess Energy Summit (April 22-27, 2016).

Scientific Literacy for All on TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2
Panelists Andy Chandler-Grevatt, Lucy Hawking, Sanjoy Mahajan,…

What’s Necessary? What’s Possible? on TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4
Panelists Michael Brooks, Graham Brown-Martin, Jennifer Correiro, Kourosh Houshmand…

Learning 2030 Keynote
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
Brandon Busteed, Executive Director of Gallup Education, on hope, engagement and wellbeing in school.

From Books to Screens on TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3
Panelists Michelle Cordy, Greg Butler, Erik Gregory, Gersande La Flèche…

Presentation of the Learning 2030 Communiqué
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3
Michael Brooks, Jennifer Groff, Christine McWebb, and Zainab Ramahi present the recommendations for the future…