Ceecee Holz

Ceecee Holz is the Senior Research Associate at the Climate Equity Reference Project – a long-standing research and advocacy collaboration of SEI and EcoEquity – and the Executive Director of the Climate Equity Reference Project Canada. Ceecee also co-teaches the core course of Carleton University’s Masters’ specialization in climate change.

Their field of research is international and Canadian climate change politics, with an overall research agenda focused on the role of equity and fairness as enablers of ambitious domestic and international action on addressing climate change. Ceecee also researches the role of civil society in international climate change politics and advises several Canadian and international organizations on climate policy.

Previously, Dr. Holz was a researcher in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University and in the School for Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. Prior to that, they served as the Executive Director of Climate Action Network Canada – Réseau action climat Canada, a network of over 100 organizations committed to collaborating to advance action on climate change at all levels of government in Canada; and now serves on its board of directors. Ceecee has also been involved with Climate Action Network International’s advocacy work at the UN climate change negotiations for almost two decades, including as a past member of its board of directors. They received their PhD from the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, for a thesis titled, “The Public Spheres of Climate Change Advocacy Networks: An Ethnography of Climate Action Network International Within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)”.