Ms. Tzeporah Berman Chair, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, Canada

Dr. Tzeporah Berman BA, MES, LLD (honoris causa) has been designing climate justice and environmental advocacy campaigns and advising governments for over 30 years. She is the Cofounder and International Program Director at Stand.earth and the Chair and Founder of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative.... read more

Tzeporah publishes and speaks widely on fossil fuels and climate change. She is the author of This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge, published by Random House. For six years she was the Executive Director of the Tarsands Network tasked with developing strategies for pipeline and tarsands campaigns and related grant dockets for philanthropic foundations. She has also held positions advising the British Columbia government and in Alberta Co-Chairing the Oil Sands Advisory Working Group tasked with making recommendations to implement climate change policy in the oilsands. For two years Tzeporah was the co-director of Greenpeace International's global climate program during which she successfully oversaw campaigns to stop oil drilling north of the sea ice line in Greenland, a campaign against Volkswagen to get support for vehicle efficiency laws and a successful campaign to get Facebook to become the first IT company in the world to have a procurement policy for renewable energy.

Tzeporah is one of the primary negotiators and architects of the Great Bear Rainforest campaign in Canada that led to the permanent protection of 6 million acres of old growth rainforest, a conservation financing initiative to support indigenous led business and economic diversification, an ecosystem based management forestry program and procurement policies of major buyers of wood and paper products that changed the way that paper is made in North America and resulted in the first policies of major corporations to not buy old growth wood.

Dr. Berman holds an honorary doctorate of law from the University of British Columbia and was an adjunct professor at York University for 5 years. In 2019 she was awarded the Climate Breakthrough Award of $2 million dollars to develop a bold new global climate strategy and in 2021 she gave a widely viewed TED Talk presenting the case for a global treaty to phase out fossil fuels.