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MEDIA RELEASE: Citizens Demand Consultations Under Ontario’s Environment Bill of Rights
Read moreIt is our right as Ontarians to be consulted. In fact, it is a very precious right as Ontario is one of only two jurisdictions in the world with participatory rights under an Environmental Bill of Rights
MEDIA RELEASE: The Climate Crisis Requires Policy Persistence
Read morePremier-elect Ford said in his acceptance speech that he wanted to gain the confidence of those who did not support him. Perhaps taking the lead from James A. Baker and George P. Schultz might help. Carbon fee and dividend is a policy where all sides win. There is something for everyone in it. The polluter-pays principle will appeal to libertarians, the market-based solution and smaller government will appeal to the conservative-minded and it protects the poor and middle class which should appeal to all.
Blog: Parachutes for the Planet – Touching the Heart through Art
Read moreAt the Parachutes for the Planet display in Washington DC on June 11, 2018, Rachel Kyte, Chief Executive Officer of Sustainable Energy for All, and Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All, took pictures of the parachutes from the Marshall Islands and tweeted the photos to the President Heine of the Marshall Islands:
BLOG: What does creating political will look like in practice?
Read moreThis spring in the House of Commons, while the Official Opposition was hammering on the carbon tax and all of its apparent faults, we were applauding our two area MPs – Richard Cannings and Wayne Stetski – who spoke passionately and articulately for climate action and carbon pricing.
MEDIA RELEASE: Climate Change and the Ontario Election – One of These Parties is Not Like the Others
Read moreThe Liberals, Greens and NDP all have detailed carbon pricing policies and mechanisms for protecting the poor and middle class as the carbon price ramps up. The PCs has not been forthcoming with their plans for combating climate change.