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Leading the Change: Embedding sustainability in strategy

As a senior leader at Port Saint John, Paula helps ensure that sustainability is considered in decisions about growth, partnerships, and community relationships.

Sustainability as core business

By integrating climate considerations into high level decisions, Paula supports a port strategy that is resilient, future ready, and responsive to community expectations.

Paula's work spans communications, stakeholder engagement, and strategic planning, with sustainability as a central thread. She helps connect climate targets with real world actions, from capital projects to community partnerships, so the port can reduce emissions while supporting inclusive economic development.

Through Green Economy New Brunswick, Paula works with colleagues to understand the port’s emissions profile and identify high impact levers for change. This includes cleaner energy, better building performance, and engagement with tenants and partners so climate action reaches beyond the port’s direct footprint.

By integrating climate considerations into high level decisions,

Paula supports a port strategy that is resilient, future ready, and responsive to community expectations.

In Paula’s view, climate action is a shared responsibility that requires collaboration across sectors. Her work at Port Saint John reflects this, bringing together government, business, and community partners to explore how port projects can advance environmental goals while supporting jobs and trade.

Paula's perspective on shared climate progress

Paula encourages organizations to see climate action not only as risk management but as a chance to innovate and build stronger relationships with the people and places they serve.

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Paula encourages organizations to see climate action not only as risk management but as a chance to innovate and build stronger relationships with the people and places they serve.

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