Climate Change in a Partisan World: Cutting Through the Spin with Andrew Heffernan
- Day: Mondays
- Dates: May 5 – June 16, 2025
- Time: 1:30pm – 3:30pm
- Location: In Person @ Carleton University
- Price: $175+HST
Zoom Information will be sent by email 1-2 days prior to the lecture date.
Overview
Climate change has widely be deemed ‘the greatest challenge of our generation’. With recent worldwide climate strikes, COP 26, climate change being front and centre in the 2021 federal election and with increasingly alarming UN reports being issued, the time to act is now. Luckily it seems there is a new generation of young Canadians that are ready to tackle this challenge head on. This course will provide an interactive and engaging overview of the challenges facing both Canadians, and the rest of the world with these issues. It will also present participants with an overview of the ways in which climate change can and has been successfully countered while allowing them the opportunity to spend the week building toward what they see as a comprehensive, realistic and sound Canadian climate strategy
About the Lecturer
Andrew Heffernan holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Ottawa where he is a part-time professor specializing in International Relations and comparative politics. He is also a postdoctoral fellow with the Digital Policy Hub at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. His major research interests include African politics, global environmental governance, climate change misinformation and disinformation, community-based conservation, and the politics of food. Andrew is also active in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning which he is continuously publishing on, presenting on at academic conferences, as well as implementing in his teaching in university classes. He has published with Palgrave MacMillan Environmental Management, Development Review, the Journal of Southern African Studies, Sport in Society, Canadian Journal of Political Science, and International Studies among others. Andrew is President of ISA-Canada and Vice-Chair of the African Studies Association’s Emerging Scholar Network.
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