Join researchers from the City of Edmonton’s CitiesIPCC Legacy Research Grant Program to learn how changes in the daily life of our communities can help lessen the impact of climate change.
This Idea Talk features: Read more about CitiesIPCC Communities & Climate Change
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This fall, school strike movement Fridays For Future calls for a global climate action day. On September 25th, demonstrations and manifestations will take place all across the globe, all adjusted according to COVID-19 circumstances. Read more about Global Day of Climate Action
From the Calgary Climate Hub website:
Welcome to our speaker series about what comes next as it relates to our country, the economic system and the climate crisis once the corona virus has come and gone. Read more about A Climate of Change - Season 2, Episode 2: Fridays for Future Calgary
Presented by Lorna Harris, University of Alberta Read more about Peatlands in Canada: Linking science, policy, and practice to protect an essential carbon service
From Ecojustice:
Go behind-the-scenes with the Ecojustice lawyers preparing for a Supreme Court of Canada hearing that will decide the fate of the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act — and climate action in Canada.
On September 22 and 23, the SCC will hear cases brought by the Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Alberta governments challenging the constitutionality of the federal government’s carbon pricing legislation. Read more about Road to the Supreme Court of Canada: Our climate future on the line
(OTTAWA) Unless the federal government revises its methane regulations to take into account new analysis, Canada will miss by a wide mark an international commitment made by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to reduce oil and gas methane emissions by 40 to 45 per cent below 2012 levels by 2025. Read more about Without federal action, Canada will miss easiest, cheapest opportunity to reduce climate emissions
Updated: September 3, 2020
The Coalspur Vista mine is one of the largest thermal coal mines in Canada, and the proposed expansion could almost triple its capacity. Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson declined in December 2019 to order a federal impact assessment, but he reversed this decision on July 30 so the project will undergo a federal impact assessment. Coalspur Mines has launched a legal challenge to the Minister's decision.
From the CPAWS website:
Tell the federal government that you demand they invest in a Green Recovery. This includes new and better-managed protected areas on land and in the ocean, Indigenous protected areas and stewardship programs, and a shift towards natural infrastructure and nature-based climate solutions.
Take Action Read more about A better future for all is within reach – Canada needs a Green Recovery!
From the Calgary Climate Hub website:
Join us for our speaker series about what comes next as it relates to our country, the economic system and the climate crisis once the corona virus has come and gone. Read more about A Climate of Change - Season 2, Episode 1: Amber Bennett
