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About Ed Whittingham

Ed Whittingham is a public policy professional focused on clean energy and climate change. He is the co-host of the Energy vs Climate podcast series, a fellow with the Public Policy Forum, and mentor with the Creative Destruction Lab. He is the former executive director of the Pembina Institute and a past director of the Alberta Energy Regulator.

Whittingham co-founded the Academy for Sustainable Innovation Canada, a social venture start-up that builds leadership capacity for Canada's transition to a low-carbon, socially-inclusive economy. He holds an international MBA from the Schulich School of Business at York University. In 2016 Whittingham was named one of Alberta’s 50 Most Influential People by Alberta Venture magazine, and his op-eds have been published in newspapers and magazines across Canada and internationally.

2 Articles

Rejecting carbon capture risks increasing emissions. Here's why

Put simply: Canada and the world need carbon capture in the toolkit to address climate change and meet international climate obligations.
Opinion | January 25th 2022

Alternative facts won’t discredit Canadian climate action

The world is not “returning to coal power,” not in Germany or anywhere else
Opinion | February 23rd 2017

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