Our Best Chance for a Climate Safe Future? Local Power
Why we find hope in Vancouver’s new Climate Emergency Action Plan and encourage others to model it.
Avery Shannon is a multiply disabled queer transgender youth. They are a co-founder of Our Time and Our Time Vancouver, and they organize with Protect The Inlet. Naia Lee organizes with Sustainabiliteens and Climate Strike Canada. This was written in collaboration with Safe Cities. SHARES ‘As young climate organizers, the need for Vancouver’s plan and broader, more immediate action seems obvious, since we viscerally feel the stakes of the climate crisis.’
From: Natural Resources Canada
The Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, on behalf of the Honourable Seamus O’Regan Jr., Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, today announced that Simon Fraser University has been selected to establish an urban climate centre in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, through a $22-million federal investment.
In communities across the country, Canadians are feeling the impacts of climate change. By investing in new technologies and projects that reduce pollution and make our communities more resilient to climate change, we can create good, middle-class jobs and help Canadian companies compete in the transition to a low-carbon economy. This commitment is more important than ever as we plan our recovery from the COVID-19 crisis.
Vancouver is working towards becoming a sustainable 15-Minute City
Mia Gordon
Wednesday, December 23rd 2020, 1:22 pm - Becoming a 15-Minute City became even more of a priority in 2020 when the City of Vancouver announced their new Climate Emergency Action Plan.
From Paris to Portland, a number of cities around the world are working towards creating neighborhoods where residents have everything they need just a short walk or bike ride from their home. It’s called the “15-Minute City” since, if designed properly, anyone who lives there should be able to access all their basic needs in a 15-minute walk, bike, or transit ride.
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Bayside City Council certified carbon neutral
Bayside City Council has received certification for being carbon neutral for Council’s 2019-20 operations against the Climate Active Carbon Neutral Standard.
Bayside is the first local government in the south east of Melbourne to achieve the milestone and one of nine nationwide.
Mayor Cr Laurence Evans OAM said it’s satisfying to receive certification after Council’s long journey to carbon neutrality over the past 12 years.
“What an achievement to be able to say we’re certified carbon neutral in Council operations – every Baysider should be proud,” Cr Evans OAM said.
Column by the leader of South Gloucestershire Council, Toby Savage. In South Gloucestershire we know that securing our economic recovery, creating jobs and protecting our environment and climate all go hand in hand. They cannot be separate aims. Last weekend, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, urged governments around the world to declare a state of climate emergency until the world reached net zero CO2 emissions. At least 38 countries have already declared a state of climate emergency and the UK was one of the first in the world to do so and has continued to lead the way on the international stage. We made our own declaration in South Gloucestershire in July 2019, and since then we have made sure progress has matched rhetoric.