Scott Vaughan, IISD President and CEO, keynote address at Ontario Climate Consortium's First Climate Change Research Symposium in Toronto, May 13, 2013 (Speech Notes)
President and CEO Scott Vaughan's keynote address to the inaugural symposium of the Ontario Climate Consortium, 2013.
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