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Funding for CCEMC is collected from industry. Since 2007, Alberta companies that annually produce more than 100,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions are required to reduce their greenhouse gas intensity by 12 per cent against a 2005 operating baseline. Companies have three options to meet their reduction target: improve efficiency of operations, buy carbon credits in the Alberta-based offset system or pay CAD$15 per tonne into the Climate Change and Emissions Management Fund for every tonne they emit over their reduction limit.
Since 2010, the CCEMC has been funding projects all along the innovation scale from early stage R&D to deployment level projects that serve to reduce GHGs. By the end of 2012, the CCEMC was funding 43 innovative technology projects. They combine to reduce emissions by an estimated 8 megatonnes over 10 years — equivalent to removing about 1.6 million cars from the road.
M. Elyse Allan
In her role as President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Canada and Vice President GE, Elyse is responsible for growing GE’s business in Canada and advancing the company’s leadership in advanced technology, services and finance. Elyse’s career with GE began in 1984 and has spanned the US, Canada and several industrial and consumer GE businesses including aviation, energy and lighting.
Elyse is a passionate champion for Canada’s competitiveness, advancing the country’s science and technology base and competitive fiscal policy. She actively engages in industry groups, public policy and the community and serves on the Boards of Directors for several organizations, including the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, the C.D. Howe Institute, MaRS Discovery District, Conference Board of Canada and the ROM Board of Governors. She recently completed her tenure as Chair, Canadian Chamber of Commerce and Director, the Royal Ontario Museum. Elyse has served on a number of federal and provincial government advisory boards. She has been recognized as a YWCA 2012 Woman of Distinction (Business), a Top 100 Business Women of Influence by the Women’s Executive Network, and as Canadian Business Magazine’s 25 Most Powerful People in Canada (2009). Elyse holds a Bachelor of Arts in Biology & Environmental Studies from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and an MBA from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth. Elyse holds an honorary doctorate from Ryerson University in Toronto.
Michael Brown
Michael Brown has been in the Canadian venture capital industry for more than 40 years, in addition to being a published author and speaker on topics such as climate change, alternate energy technology, and venture capital. He is the Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital. Mr. Brown was previously involved in the founding and directing of many early stage companies including West Capital Ltd.,
Canada's largest private early-stage technology fund, Ballard Power Systems, Inc (1989-1998), Cellex Power Products, Inc., Questair Technologies Inc, Hydrogen & Fuel Cells Canada,
and of the Canadian Task Force on Early Stage Funding. He has been on several government committees on technology and securities matters.
Mr. Brown graduated from UBC and attended Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. In 2000, the Science Council of BC named Mr. Brown as the winner of the Cecil Green Award for Entrepreneurialism, and the following year the Vancouver Board of Trade named him one of eight B.C. Pioneers of Innovation. In 2005 he received the “Pioneer Award” from the Cleantech Venture Network.
Howard J. Herzog
Howard J. Herzog is a senior research engineer in the MIT Energy Initiative. He received his undergraduate and graduate education in chemical engineering at MIT. He has industrial experience with Eastman Kodak (1972-1974), Stone & Webster (1975-1978),
Aspen Technology (1981-1986), and Spectra Physics (1986-1988). Since 1989, he has been on the MIT research staff, where he works on sponsored research involving energy and the environment, with an emphasis on greenhouse gas mitigation technologies. He was a Coordinating Lead Author for the IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (released September, 2005), a co-author on the MIT Future of Coal Study (released March 2007), and a US delegate to the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum's Technical Group (June 2003-September 2007). He was awarded the 2010 Greenman Award by the IEAGHG “in recognition of contributions made to the development of greenhouse gas control technologies”.
Clive Mather
Clive Mather is the Chairman of Tearfund, the international Christian relief agency combating global poverty and injustice, Chairman of the Shell Pension fund, Chairman of the Iogen Corporation, a Canadian biotech company, and Chairman of The Garden Tomb (Jerusalem) Association. He is also a director of Badger Explorer ASA in Norway. He works with governments and NGO’s on both sides of the Atlantic on energy and environmental issues. He was a member of the Premier’s Council for Economic Strategy in Alberta from 2009 until 2012.
Clive previously worked as President & CEO of Shell Canada Limited. He took a high profile on environmental matters, presenting the business case for sustainable development through communications and example. An advocate of leadership for good and corporate social responsibility, he has held many public appointments in the UK, including Commissioner for the Equal Opportunities Commission, Chairman of the Government/Industry CSR Academy and Deputy Chairman of the Windsor Leadership Trust. He lectures on ethical issues around the world. He is a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
A. Anne McLellan
The Honourable A. Anne McLellan, P.C., O.C. joined Bennett Jones LLP in its Edmonton office in July 2006 and in May 2006 she was appointed the first Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Institute for US Policy Studies, University of Alberta. Ms. McLellan is a member of several corporate and community boards. She served four terms as the Liberal MP for Edmonton Centre, during which she was Deputy Prime Minister of Canada and Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, Minister of Health, Minister of Justice and Minister of Natural Resources. From 1980 – 1992 she was a professor in the University of Alberta's Faculty of Law and served as both Associate Dean (1985 – 1987) and Acting Dean (1991 – 1992) of the Faculty. Ms. McLellan holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Law degree from Dalhousie University and a Master of Laws degree from King's College, University of London.
Richard L. Sandor
Richard L. Sandor is chairman and chief executive officer of Environmental Financial Products LLC, which specializes in inventing, designing, and developing new financial markets with a special emphasis on investment advisory services. EFP was established in 1998 and was the predecessor company and incubator to the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), the European Climate Exchange (ECX) and the Chicago Climate Futures Exchange (CCFE). Sandor was honored by the City of Chicago for his contribution to the creation of financial futures and his recognition as the "father of financial futures.” In October 2007, he was honored as one of TIME Magazine’s “Heroes of the Environment” for his work as the “Father of Carbon Trading.” In October 2012 he was presented with the World Federation of Exchanges Award for Excellence.
Sandor is a Distinguished Professor of Environmental Finance at Guanghua School of Management at Peking University and a Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He is also the author of Good Derivatives: A Story of Financial and Environmental Innovation, published in 2012.
Dan Wicklum
Dan started his second career as a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Montana. In 2000 he become a Senior Policy Advisor to the Canadian Federal Minister of Natural Resources and the Government House Leader, and was subsequently Director of Strategic Alliances for Natural Resources Canada's Canadian Forest Service. Dan then launched, and became Executive Director of The Canadian Forest Innovation Council before joining Environment Canada in various roles including Director General of Wildlife and Landscape Science and Director General of Water Science and Technology. Dan is now Chief Executive of Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance.
Dan completed a BSc. in Biology (University of Guelph, 1990) followed by a MSc. in Aquatic Ecology (University of Calgary, 1994, and a Ph.D. in Aquatic Ecology (University of Montana, 1998). Dan’s initial career was as a linebacker in the CFL, playing with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (1988) and the Calgary Stampeders (1989-91).
