Trottier Symposium 2025
In the fight against climate change, science, diplomacy and economics seem to each pull in a different direction.
At the 2025 Trottier Symposium, we are asking how we can instead make them work together in order to ensure a safe future for all.
Part I: Feature webinar on September 26th
In the feature webinar, Simon Sharpe, Managing Director of S-Curve Economics CIC and author of the acclaimed book Five Times Faster, will discuss how a better understanding of the economy as system that is evolving rather than static leads to better policy choices, and suggests an approach to diplomacy that focuses more on tipping points than on emissions targets. In both national policies and international diplomacy, these new ideas and their translation into institutions could enable us to make faster progress in the transition, by making better use of whatever political and financial capital is available.
He will then have exchanges with Normand Mousseau of the Institut de l’énergie Trottier on how exactly to put that in motion.
Simon Sharpe
Simon Sharpe has played a leading role in the UK’s COP26 Unit and has worked on the industrial strategy in the UK government, and has also served as head of private office to a Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change. He is a champion for using risk assessment wisely in order to make climate policy more efficient and has recently published a book, Five Times Faster, on the subject.
Part II : Experts panel on November 12th
Later this Fall, a panel of experts will go back on this subject. Stay tuned for more info on the in-person panel that will take place at BAnQ in Montreal.
