Trudeau and his colleagues have a choice, either go down in history as government that sacrificed climate action and Indigenous reconciliation for a pipeline, or recognize that thousands of people in Canada are ready to
support real climate action that respects Indigenous rights and keeps fossil fuels in the ground.
Not exact matches
Securing Senate
support for
climate agreements is difficult under any circumstances, but unless all major countries are seen as committing to
real action, it will be hopeless.
The letter, dubbed the «We Can Lead» campaign, is part of a broader effort lending
support for passage of the legislation, even in the face of unprecedented lobbying from vested interests opposed to the bill (or any
real action at all on
climate and sustainable energy).
Which coincidentally is the same PR technique that Friends of Science is using to delay
action on
climate change; creating the public perception of a scientific debate in order to undermine
support for the Kyoto accord or for any
real public policy
action.
There is a
real risk that negotiators and civil society groups will continue to consider the early entry into force of the Paris Agreement as the pinnacle of necessary
action on
climate change, when in reality the Parties to the Agreement must increase their ambition to cut carbon emissions and
support the massive mitigation and adaptation financing of developing countries who bear a disproportionate burden of
climate change impacts.
We are a growing network of 22 New Zealand civil society groups, non-governmental organisations and social movements who
support each other and our allies to take
real action to protect New Zealanders and others from
climate change, to protect New Zealand's unique environment, and build a more fair, just and safe New Zealand for us all.
Here is an appeal to the developed world which has been providing humanitarian
support:
real help requires implementing
climate change response
actions immediately.
And in a more general sense, given the twists and turns of American politics in recent years — since 2005 the conventional wisdom has gone from permanent Republican domination to permanent Democratic domination to God knows what — there has to be a
real chance that political
support for
action on
climate change will revive.