The Road to COP 26, Climate Science Confronts Fossil Power

Join Terry Moore, for a discussion with Eddy Pérez, the Climate Action Network’s International Climate Diplomacy Manager, about what climate science tells us needs to be done as the UN and world leaders prepare for the next big Climate Summit, COP 26, this fall in Scotland.

Eddy Pérez Biographical Information

CAN-Rac International Climate Diplomacy Manager

Eddy Pérez joined Climate Action Network Canada in January 2018 after working in Geneva with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and as a Climate Action Network International consultant. He is the International Climate Diplomacy Manager at Climate Action Network Canada. Eddy is a lecturer at the University of Montreal and teaches Climate justice and international cooperation. Eddy is an expert on climate diplomacy, analyzing and monitoring international climate negotiations from a Canadian and North American perspective. He chairs the G7 Climate and Energy WG within the G7 Global Taskforce. He sits on the Canadian Domestic Advisory Group (CEDAG) for the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). Eddy holds a Master of Science degree from the Institut national de la recherche scientifique du Québec (INRS). Eddy loves poetry and attributes part of his passion for climate justice to the work of Eduardo Galeano. One of his favourite quotes from this author is: “Recordar, from the Latin records, to pass back through the heart.”

1. Information on CAN-Rac – Climate Action Network Canada:

   • https://climateactionnetwork.ca/about-can-rac/

2. Information on COP 26:

   • https://ukcop26.org

3. Information on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC):

   • https://www.ipcc.ch

4. Information on IPCC Working Group 1 ”The Physical Basis for Climate Change”:

   • https://www.ipcc.ch/working-group/wg1/