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WelcomeAs Canada's first and only female Prime Minister, Kim Campbell's life has been a life of firsts. From the age of 16, when she became the first female student body president of her high school, until 30 years later, as the 19th Prime Minister of Canada at the age of 46, Ms. Campbell has spent much of her life breaking barriers for women. Holding audiences since the age of ten, Ms. Campbell speaks widely on issues related to leadership, international politics, democratization, climate change, gender, and Canadian/American relations all over the world. In the first half of 2009 alone, she addressed audiences in Kiev, Cordoba, Toronto, Prague, Brussels, Vancouver, London, Beijing, and Washington, DC among others. more POST-COPENHAGEN: MORE WORK AHEADClimate change has come to be recognized globally as one of the most serious challenges facing our planet. 2009 was a crucial year in the international effort to address climate change and culminated in the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 15) in Copenhagen, December 7-19. Now that the negotiations have concluded with what might be the first steps to a multilateral agreement, there is more work ahead. Read Kim Campbell's Op-Ed at the Climate Change Leadership Forum to learn more.
As a member of the Global Leadership for Climate Action (GLCA), a task force of world leaders committed to addressing climate change through international negotiations, Former Prime Minister Campbell is engaged in this issue and offers insight into the actions that will be necessary in order to save cultures, lifestyles and lives.
As a Former Minister of Defence, Ms. Campbell is a voice of authority on security risks posed by the effects of climate change as well as the implications of what she calls "the trifecta of disadvantage" where countries most at risk from global warming are also among the world's poorest economies and weakest states. more
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