Robert K. Dixon of The World Bank Group, Dixon was Team Leader for Climate Change and Chemicals (2008 to 2015), overseeing a multibillion-dollar portfolio of energy, environment, public health, infrastructure, and transportation projects in developing and transition countries. Dixon has been a delegate to intergovernmental negotiating committees and subsidiary bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992 to present), Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (1989 to present), Minamata Convention on Mercury (2009 to 2015), the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate (2006 to 2011), the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (2004 to 2015), and
The Rise and Fall of English Montreal The Rise and Fall of English Montreal The Rise and Fall of English Montreal is a 1993 Canadian documentary film directed by William Weintraub and produced by the National Film Board of Canada in Montreal. The film deals with exodus of English-speaking Quebecers that began in the 1960s and was accelerated by the Quebec general election, 1976. The film includes interviews with English-speaking professionals and students that are preparing to leave Montreal, joining an exodus of 300,000 anglophones that left the province in the last two decades. This exodus is reflected in over 100 English-speaking schools that have closed in