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A North American Approach to Climate Change: Linking Quebec and California

12:30 - 1:30 p.m. EDT, May 22, 2013

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About the Event

RFF Policy Leadership Forum featuring Yves-François Blanchet, Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment, Wildlife and Parks, National Assembly of Quebec

Yves-François Blanchet, a native of Drummondville, was appointed Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment, Wildlife and Parks on December 4, 2012. After earning a BA in anthropology and history at the University of Montreal, he began his political involvement in 1987 with the Parti Québécois, then led by Jacques Parizeau. Following a hiatus of several years—during which Blanchet founded and ran two companies, taught at the École du Show-Business, and became president of ADISQ (a nonprofit organization focused on the music industry in Quebec)—he recommitted himself to politics in 2008 and was elected as a member of the National Assembly for the Johnson district. He has an innate interest in environmental matters and experience as president of two consecutive Earth Day celebrations in Quebec. Minister Blanchet is particularly interested in the growth of a green economy in Quebec.