Ari Pottens
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About Ari Pottens
Ari Pottens is the senior campaign manager, Canada, for the Environmental Defense Fund. Ari works with civil society partners and policy makers in the federal and provincial governments to strengthen emission regulations nationwide. Ari has spent more than a decade as a community organizer focused on strengthening environmental policy in Canada. He has also worked in federal and provincial politics and with several domestic and international NGOs.
With courage, Canada could defuse a planet-warming bomb
Regulations and funding are the main obstacles on the path to hitting Canada’s 2030 methane benchmarks.