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Age57 years
BornFeb 05, 1969
CountryCanada
ProfessionActivist, climate activist, environmentalist
ZodiacAquarius ♒
Born inLondon
Tzeporah Berman
Personal Facts, Age, Height and Biography of Tzeporah Berman
is a Canadian environmental activist, campaigner and writer. She is the founder and steering committee chair of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, a global network of nation states supported by civil society developing a companion to the Paris Agreement. Berman is also the co-founder and international program director at Stand.earth (previously ForestEthics) where she works to help develop strategy for the Amazon, shipping, fashion, pipeline, LNG and old growth forests campaigns as well as the SAFE cities initiative. She is also known for her role as one of the organizers of the logging blockades in Clayoquot Sound, British Columbia in 1992–93.
In 2009, Berman served on British Columbia's Green Energy Task Force. The task force, appointed by Premier Gordon Campbell, was charged with making recommendations on the development of renewable energy for the province. Berman was one of the experts in the environmental documentary The 11th Hour, produced by Leonardo DiCaprio. She was named as one of six Canadian nominees for the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship social entrepreneur of the year award, one of "50 Visionaries Changing the World" in Utne Reader and as "Canada's Queen of Green" in a cover story by Reader's Digest. She was included in the Royal British Columbia Museum permanent exhibit of "150 people who have changed the face of British Columbia." In 2015 Berman served on the British Columbia Governments Climate Leadership Team and was appointed in 2016 to serve on the Alberta Governments Oil Sands Advisory Group as co-chair. Berman was listed of one of the 35 Most Influential Women in British Columbia by BC Business Magazine and awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Law from University of British Columbia.
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 hectares of old growth rainforest in 2006.
Berman is an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Environmental Studies, at York University in Toronto.
In 2009, Berman served on British Columbia's Green Energy Task Force. The task force, appointed by Premier Gordon Campbell, was charged with making recommendations on the development of renewable energy for the province. Berman was one of the experts in the environmental documentary The 11th Hour, produced by Leonardo DiCaprio. She was named as one of six Canadian nominees for the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship social entrepreneur of the year award, one of "50 Visionaries Changing the World" in Utne Reader and as "Canada's Queen of Green" in a cover story by Reader's Digest. She was included in the Royal British Columbia Museum permanent exhibit of "150 people who have changed the face of British Columbia." In 2015 Berman served on the British Columbia Governments Climate Leadership Team and was appointed in 2016 to serve on the Alberta Governments Oil Sands Advisory Group as co-chair. Berman was listed of one of the 35 Most Influential Women in British Columbia by BC Business Magazine and awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Law from University of British Columbia.
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 hectares of old growth rainforest in 2006.
Berman is an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Environmental Studies, at York University in Toronto.
