Canadian News
BLOG: Climate Reality Leaders connect in new CCL Action Team
Read moreBrian Ettling and Cathy Orlando co-lead a CCL Action Team for CCL volunteers who, like themselves, are also Climate Reality Leaders. Their mission is to strengthen and foster the relationship between Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) and Climate Reality Project (CRP) volunteers and organizations. Connect with them on Wednesday, January 24, 2018.
Why Canada-U.S. Cooperation is key to Carbon Pricing Success
Read moreClimate action is a worldwide, collaborative effort. CCL Vancouver Group Leader Marlo Firme makes the case for how partnership between close trading partners like Canada and the U.S. can lead to more robust, effective, and lower cost GHG reductions.
MEDIA RELEASE: The Trend Toward an Effective Carbon Pricing Policy For Canada is Irreversible
Read more“Although there is a lot of work ahead to secure a healthy climate for future generations, given the Canadian government’s resolve in combination with international commitments and the recent Abacus poll, it appears that the trend toward an effective carbon pricing policy for Canada is irreversible.”
MEDIA RELEASE: The One Planet Summit Fires Up Momentum for the Paris Agreement
Read moreAt the One Planet Summit, 12-year-old Timoci Naulusala from Fiji asked the leaders, “Are you ready to face life without earth? Have you contemplated if you ignore this reality – this nightmare?” Timoci knows the horrors of climate change impacts first hand. His village in Fiji last year was hit by Cyclone Winston – the most intense tropical cyclone in the Southern Hemisphere on record.
BLOG: Taking Stock of Climate Progress Creates Real Hope
Read moreAs we move into the festive season, it is often a time to reflect on the year that was. In September 2015, in my mind’s eye, there was a pinprick of hopeful light at the end of the tunnel with regards to climate change. Now that light is the almost the size of a basketball.
Why? Because I have had front row seats to the best show on Earth: watching humanity act on the climate crisis alongside some of the best volunteers on the planet at Citizens’ Climate Lobby.