Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 10 hours ago
Across Canada and in other OECD countries, many consumers and communities experience energy poverty wherein they don’t have access to reliable and affordable energy sources for the basic necessities of life, like heating, cooling, and transportation. This session explores the concept of energy poverty in the context of driving a just transition – what it is, where it happens, who experiences it, how the transition to clean energy can solve energy poverty – and offers examples of policies and actions that help to alleviate, reduce, and ultimately end energy poverty for individuals and communities, while pushing us toward a zero-carbon future.
This series is a partnership of Corporate Knights with the German and French Embassies in Canada, as part of the Ottawa Climate Talks.
Welcome:
Gerhard Schlaudraff
Deputy Head of Mission, German Embassy
Moderator:
Diana Fox Carney
Fellow, Balsillie School of International Affairs
Opening Address:
Dana Tizya-Tramm
Chief of Vuntut Gwich’in First Nation
Panelists:
Allison Ashcroft
Managing Director, CUSP
Veit Bürger
Deputy Head of Energy & Climate Division, Öko-Institut
Hélène Denise
Advocacy Officer, Fondation Abbé Pierre
Across Canada and in other OECD countries, many consumers and communities experience energy poverty wherein they don’t have access to reliable and affordable energy sources for the basic necessities of life, like heating, cooling, and transportation. This session explores the concept of energy poverty in the context of driving a just transition – what it is, where it happens, who experiences it, how the transition to clean energy can solve energy poverty – and offers examples of policies and actions that help to alleviate, reduce, and ultimately end energy poverty for individuals and communities, while pushing us toward a zero-carbon future.
This series is a partnership of Corporate Knights with the German and French Embassies in Canada, as part of the Ottawa Climate Talks.
Welcome:
Gerhard Schlaudraff
Deputy Head of Mission, German Embassy
Moderator:
Diana Fox Carney
Fellow, Balsillie School of International Affairs
Opening Address:
Dana Tizya-Tramm
Chief of Vuntut Gwich’in First Nation
Panelists:
Allison Ashcroft
Managing Director, CUSP
Veit Bürger
Deputy Head of Energy & Climate Division, Öko-Institut
Hélène Denise
Advocacy Officer, Fondation Abbé Pierre
