Canada

Tracker: Adam MacIsaac

Country: Canada

Adam has worked in various positions in many places around the globe but still is strongly connected to his place of birth in the small province of Prince Edward Island, Canada. With his passion for youth engagement and community involvement, Adam was the Prince Edward Island Youth Engagement Coordinator on the Creating Local Connections Canada initiative from TakingItGlobal.org.

Throughout Adam’s experience – ranging from organic farms in rural Prince Edward Island, to Fair Trade Coffee and Cacao collectives in the Dominican Republic – he has developed a strong understanding of food security and environmental impacts from climate change domestically and internationally.

He is in his third year of sitting on the Executive Committee with the Sierra Youth Coalition, which is Canada’s largest youth environmental organization. During a short International Development Internship with CIDA project, Adam worked at addressing environmental issues impacting youth internationally and has built upon that experience while working on a United Nations Development Programme project which created a youth summary of the 2007/2008 United Nations Human Development Report.

Adam has attended the past two United Nations Climate Change Conferences with the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition’s Canadian Youth Delegation project. In April 2008 Adam received training from the Climate Project Canada and Al Gore to present the Academy Award winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” and was a panelist during a round table discussion at The Royal Commonwealth Society along with Canadian environmentalist Dr. David Suzuki. In early 2009 Adam undertook a United Nations University course while traveling to Japan, Vanuatu, Tonga and New Zealand and concurrently conducting a research paper on youth engagement for COP 15.

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Tracker: Zoë Caron

Country: Canada

“It’s my continual goal to publicly communicate climate change and the importance of Canadian government action.”

Zoë is the co-author of ”Global Warming for Dummies” and Editor on ItsGettingHotInHere. She is a research associate with the Eco-Efficiency Centre at Dalhousie University and sits on the Board of Directors of Sierra Club Canada.

She has worked with non-profit companies and organizations within sustainability, education and social mobilization and was a founding member of the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition.

Zoë has been named in the Top-30-Under-30 to watch in Halifax, Top 50 Canadian Green List, and profiled with colleagues in Vanity Fair’s Green Issue. With an academic background in international development and environmental science, Zoë attends United Nations Climate Change Conferences and was aboard the Students On Ice International Polar Year 2007 Expedition to Antarctica.

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