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About Michael Bernstein

Michael is the executive director of Clean Prosperity.

Michael joined Clean Prosperity in 2018 after a career that spanned business, management consulting, international development, and politics. Prior to Clean Prosperity, Michael was the CEO of Mama Earth Organics, a small business that delivered organic produce from local farms to families around the Greater Toronto Area.

He worked directly with dozens of farmers and saw first-hand the effects of climate change. As a father of two young kids, he’s also very concerned about the future that we’re leaving to the next generation.

Before working in the local food sector, Michael was a business management consultant at McKinsey where he advised Fortune 500 companies, institutional investors, and governments on key strategic and business issues. He also worked with InvestEco Capital to set up an advisory service that offered support to companies in the sustainable food sector.

Michael holds a Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government and a B.A. in Economics from Yale University.

When he’s not working on climate change, you can find him building lego airplanes with his kids or doing his best karaoke impression of Vanilla Ice.

5 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

There's a missing tool in our fight against climate change

Canadian leaders need to start designing our border carbon adjustment system now to keep our economy competitive and our climate ambition on track, write Michael Bernstein of Clean Prosperity and development economist Aaron Cosbey.
Race Against Climate Change
Opinion | July 19th 2021

Raising the carbon tax makes more sense than you might think

Carbon pricing is the best way to support the technologies we need to solve the climate change problem, writes Michael Bernstein, executive director of Clean Prosperity.
Opinion, Business, Politics | January 4th 2021
Doug Ford

Doug Ford could win by losing his legal fight against the carbon tax 

The question is whether Ford will apply his new conciliatory approach to another looming threat — climate change.
Opinion | September 25th 2020

Which party platforms make the grade on carbon pollution cuts?

Michael Bernstein of Clean Prosperity offers a climate report card.
Election 2019
Opinion, Energy, Politics | October 11th 2019

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