The Centre for Social Innovation’s Climate Ventures Conversations are a chance to meet the leaders tackling the climate crisis. This month we spoke with Mary Pickering, VP of Strategy & Partnerships with The Atmospheric Fund and Senior Advisor to Low Carbon Cities Canada (LC3), an ambitious partnership to help cities reach their full emissions reduction potential while unlocking co-benefits for local communities.
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Mary Pickering works with The Atmospheric Fund to help drive down carbon in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. She leads collective impact and partnership initiatives and is an accredited partnership broker, mentor and trainer for the international Partnership Brokers Association. Mary currently serves as a senior advisor for a new national climate program – Low Carbon Cities Canada – focused on enabling accelerated scale-up of low-carbon solutions while delivering valuable community benefits in an equitable way.
About the Moderator
Stefan Hostetter is a life long environmentalist, storyteller, and community builder. As the Community Manager of CSI Spadina with the Centre for Social Innovation he supports CSI’s Climate Ventures space and activates CSI’s community of social entrepreneurs and innovators. Outside of CSI, he is the Co-Chair of the Toronto Climate Action Network, co-hosts the Green Majority, a nationally syndicated radio show that covers environmental topics, and co-produces the Stories We Don’t Tell, a monthly storytelling series and podcast on stories that society would rather leave untold.
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