Justin Trudeau's Climate Silence

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Published on Thursday, 11 October 2018 10:02

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Friends,

Earlier this morning, I was drinking my coffee and checking Twitter on my phone when I realized something. It’s been nearly a week since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released it’s landmark report on limiting climate change to 1.5ºC and we still haven’t heard one word from our Prime Minister.

Justin Trudeau hasn’t made a single mention of climate change since this report dropped. We need to end this climate silence. That’s why I’m asking you to join me in calling for an emergency debate on this new IPCC report and how Canada is going to actually meet its climate obligations.

Back in 2015, Justin Trudeau championed a 1.5ºC climate target in Paris. But this week, while the world’s leading scientists are ringing alarm bells,... saying we have to leave fossil fuels in the ground and build a 100% renewable energy economy as fast as humanly possible, Justin Trudeau has been missing in action.

This government says it takes climate change seriously, so where is our Prime Minister?

We need to know how, or frankly if, our government is going to take this warning from the most respected voices on climate change seriously. We need to know if our government is going to stand by and watch while climate change wreaks havoc, especially on communities in the global south and Indigenous peoples, or if they’re going to step up.

We need to hear from Justin Trudeau. Click here to tell all of Canada's federal party leaders that we need an emergency debate when the House of Commons resumes next week.

We can rise to meet the climate challenge, and we can build a 100% renewable energy economy that works for everyone, but to do it, we need to hold our government accountable to their promises.

Onwards,

Cam Fenton

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