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Help Shape Vancouver’s Five-Year Climate Emergency Action Plan

Darpan News Desk, 28 Feb, 2020 09:17 PM

    February 27 2020 – The City is calling on residents and businesses from across Vancouver to provide input on 19 proposed actions in our Climate Emergency Action Plan aimed at tackling climate change, and aligning our efforts with international recommendations.


    Last September, more than 100,000 people gathered outside Vancouver City Hall and marched downtown in a strike for climate action. Climate strikes continue to take place around the world, organized by young people and bringing millions of concerned citizens together to demand bold climate action.


    Growing local and global concern, along with the irrefutable science, are propelling the City forward in developing the Climate Emergency Action Plan to accelerate our actions to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.


    More than 95% of Vancouver’s carbon pollution comes from burning natural gas to heat our buildings and hot water and from the gas and diesel we burn in our vehicles. The proposed actions focus on specific, impactful ways the City can reduce emissions, as everywhere that we are contributing to climate change, there is a solution.


    To heat our buildings, we can switch to zero carbon options, such as electric heat pumps and renewable natural gas, and for moving around the city, we can switch to active modes, transit and zero emissions vehicles.

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