Dear friends:
The JD/Master in Environmental Studies
Lunchtime Seminar Series presents
COUNTDOWN TO COPENHAGEN
Key issues and prospects
Graham Erion (LLB/MES 2007)
Associate, Torys LLP and Board Member, Islands First
Monday, November 23, 2009, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Room 141, HNES Building
Hosted by Professors Mark Winfield (FES) and Stepan Wood (Osgoode), JD/MES
Joint Program Coordinators
Graham is a member the Corporate and Capital Markets Practice and the
Climate Change Practice Group at Torys. He has worked on a broad range of
corporate deals and advised clients on securities disclosure obligations,
climate change legislative developments, and non-profit corporate
governance. He is on the board of directors of Islands First, which works
to build the capacity of small island developing states to participate in
international environmental negotiations. He is an executive member of the
Climate Change Lawyers Network, where he recently authored a submission to
the Ontario Securities Commission on climate disclosure. He co-chaired the
Sierra Club’s Bi-National Climate Change Committee for the U.S. and Canada.
He helped found the Canadian Climate Youth Coalition and the Durban Group
for Climate Justice. He will be a member of Palau’s official delegation in
Copenhagen as part of his work with Islands First. His MES research on the
Clean Development Mechanism in South Africa became the first in-depth
analysis of the country’s carbon market and was published in Climate
Change, Carbon Trading, and Civil Society (UKZN Press), which he co-edited.
All are welcome. Light lunch will be served.
