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The City of Edmonton has committed to achieving net zero per person GHG emissions by 2050.

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The City of Edmonton has announced that it will be hiring a Chief Climate Officer!

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Toronto based Clean Air Partnership has developed a map to showcase ambitious climate mitigation actions undertaken by municipalities in Ontario! Currently, there are 130+ actions on the map. Hope this inspires others to take action.

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Climate Action Atlas - Clean Air Partnership

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Climate Action Atlas Welcome to CAP's atlas of municipal climate actions. This atlas encourages municipalities and communities to explore municipal climate mitigation actions undertaken in Ontario and get inspired to take up new and creative approaches to reduce the severity of climate change and build a resilient society.

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Halifax's food action plan, JustFOOD, was approved by city council this year (2023) and is now moving into its implementation phase, with the formation of working groups to tackle the many different aspects of the plan.  The plan aims to shorten supply chains, strengthen the local food system, create a regional 'food hub' to support small-scale food producers, increase food sovereignty and sustainability, as well as address food equity in the municipality.
Check out the JustFOOD plan here:  https://justfoodhalifax.ca/

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JustFOOD - Action Plan for the Halifax Region

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Lufa Farms built the world's largest rooftop greenhouse in 2010, and started supplying around 200 households with fresh produce year-round, cutting food miles and carbon emissions dramatically for those neighbourhoods, as well as increasing food security, food awareness and social cohesion.  13 years later, in 2023, Lufa Farms has expanded to 4 enormous rooftop farms and an indoor farm, feeling many thousands of Montrealers year-round and taking a major bite out of the cities emissions, and dramatically shortening the food chain.
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Find out how to subscribe to weekly fully customizable local food baskets.

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The City of Edmonton will be purchasing 100% of its energy through renewable wind and solar power starting in 2024.

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Farmers have grown 200 million trees in Niger since the 1980s.

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Carbon Tanzania is using carbon offsets to pay local indigenous people to help conserve the land through protection from poachers and harmful agricultural practices.

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In just one day in 2019 it was reported that citizens in Ethiopia were able to plant 350 million trees – breaking the world record.

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The Nigerian lawyer Chima Williams has been successful in holding fossil fuel giant, Shell, accountable for extensive oil spills on the African continent.

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In New South Wales, legislation was passed that requires all new homes to have light-coloured roofs to reflect heat and for the associated outdoor space to have enough room for at least one tree

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In 2022, a new government was elected in Australia after campaigning on climate action.

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Altigreen Propulsion Labs, a start-up based in Bangalore, India, “has developed a low-cost technological solution that can essentially convert any existing fossil-fuel-based vehicle from bikes to trucks into their hybrid version, and in the process, improve the vehicle’s fuel efficiency”.

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Bangladesh’s government, along with multiple non-governmental organisations, have planted mangroves that act as “natural barriers that protect shorelines from the wind and tidal surges of tropical cyclones”.

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In South Korea in 2017, the Cheonggye Freeway, which was previously used by 16,000 vehicles a day, was transformed into a walkable green corridor.

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China’s ‘super mirror power plant’ uses 12,000 mirrors to produce 100 MW of energy, day and night

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Following 18 days of mass protest, the government in Ecuador agreed to stop their plans to increase oil, gas and mining expansion in the Amazon.

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Amazon Rainforest - Codajás, State of Amazonas, Brazil

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Amazon Rainforest - Codajás, State of Amazonas, Brazil

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Amazon Rainforest - Codajás, State of Amazonas, Brazil

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Ensuring access to economic opportunities for young people in Brazil has been found to help to protect the Amazon rainforest.

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Started off by efforts from the Krahô indigenous peoples, the Brazilian agricultural research agency Embrapa has collected around 120,000 seeds from nearly 700 crop species over the course of 49 years as part of an effort to protect the country’s food diversity.

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EU lawmakers have voted to ban the sale of petrol vehicles by 2035.

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Sweden aims to be carbon neutral by 2045.

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As the result of national rewilding efforts, “Scotland’s forests are the largest they have been for 900 years”

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Youth climate activists in Germany have been successful in their lawsuit against their government’s 2019 climate law, which the high court ruled was “incompatible with fundamental freedoms of future generations”.

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The costs for generating renewable energy from wind and solar are falling rapidly - in the UK, onshore wind generation costs have fallen by 40%, and offshore wind and solar have fallen by even greater margins!

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Not only does cycling infrastructure in the Netherlands help to bring down carbon emissions, people are also living longer as a result of the physical activity.

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Vermont Green FC – a semi-professional football team founded in 2021 in the US – has been set up to help tackle environmental and social issues in the community.

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Kaiser Permanente, America’s largest nonprofit healthcare organisation (and in 2020, the first U.S. healthcare organisation to achieve carbon-neutral status), is working toward net zero by 2050 while they continue to promote health equity.

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Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

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Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

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Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

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The American venture capitalist John Doerr has donated $1.1 billion to Stanford for a new specialist climate school.

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Two organisations in the U.S. — TAZO Tea and American Forests — have formed an alliance to bring ‘tree equity’ to five cities by planting more trees in areas populated by ethnic minorities.

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More and more young people are getting involved in climate activism. Malala Yousafzai says of the importance of the youth movement for climate action: “When I see young activists speaking out, it gives me hope for the future of our generation.”

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The high court in Massachusetts has ruled that Exxon (a multinational oil and gas company) must go to trial over its role in lying about the fossil fuel industry’s impact on the climate crisis.

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The Mom’s Clean Air Force – a community of over 1 million parents and carers – has been working with parents for 10 years to combat climate change through community events and education.

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U.S. President Joe Biden announced that heat pumps and other renewable energy components would be covered by the Defence Production Act, part of plans to lower energy bills. The administration also announced Justice40, which seeks to advance environmental jusitce.

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California has committed to becoming 100% carbon neutral by 2045.