OmniTRAX/Broe Quest Series
Dennis Cunningham
International Institute of Sustainable Development (IISD)
Climate Change, Knowledge Communications
Project Manager
Dennis Cunningham has been with IISD since 1999. His work includes project activities in IISD’s Climate Change and Energy, Sustainable Natural Resources Management and Knowledge Communications areas. He currently works with the Manitoba government Climate Change Branch on its Climate Change Community Challenge (C4) initiative, and is a steering committee member of the Manitoba climate change public education and outreach hub, Climate Change Connection. He is also providing research support to the Atikaki/Woodland Caribou/Accord First Nations Proposed World Heritage Site partners. He is a project member on a Winnipeg-focused study examining civic environmental priorities at a neighbourhood level.
Cunningham is the media liaison for IISD. He manages the IISD Media Room, project and product launch events, press release distribution and media inquiries. One of the largest IISD media events he managed was at the Sixth Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change held in The Hague in November 2000. He coordinated the international launch of IISD's climate change video, Sila Alangotok: Inuit Observations of Climate Change. This video captured worldwide attention and highlighted the effects climate change is having on Canadians living in the Arctic.
He is also a member of IISD’s Internal Sustainable Development Assessment and Reporting team. He has helped coordinate aspects of the Institute’s carbon management strategy, including its past two carbon offsets purchase and transportation demand management strategy.
In addition, Cunningham has worked with Resource Conservation Manitoba's Green Commuter Challenge for the last five years as a planning committee member and IISD's work place coordinator. In 1999, he was an Internet Reporter for the Business and Sustainable Development web site. He researched and wrote profiles on innovative Manitoban companies integrating sustainable business solutions into their day to day operations.
He has over ten years of communication experience working with for-profit, government and non-profit employers. Cunningham is also the volunteer vice-chair of the Winnipeg International Children’s Festival.
Dennis Cunningham can be reached at dcunningham@iisd.ca