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Juan Moreno-Cruz and Sarah Burch

Dr. Juan Moreno-Cruz holds a Canada Research Chair in Energy Transitions and is an associate professor in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development, University of Waterloo. Dr. Sarah Burch holds a Canada Research Chair in Sustainability Governance and Innovation and is an associate professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo. She is executive director of the University of Waterloo’s Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change.

A successful low-carbon energy transition starts in cities and grows from there

The oil sands, pictured in Fort McMurray, Alta. Climate change is not a distant threat but rather a current reality. Without an immediate and accelerating transformation of our fossil fuel-based energy system, global average temperatures will rise more than 1.5-degree Celsius as soon as 2030. The Hill Times file photograph by Jake Wright
The oil sands, pictured in Fort McMurray, Alta. Climate change is not a distant threat but rather a current reality. Without an immediate and accelerating transformation of our fossil fuel-based energy system, global average temperatures will rise more than 1.5-degree Celsius as soon as 2030. The Hill Times file photograph by Jake Wright