(OTTAWA) – Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada (Saanich – Gulf Islands), enforced the importance of bold climate action, after Environmental Defence released a comparison on federal party's climate change policies.
“The Green Party’s plan calls for the virtual elimination of fossil fuel use in Canada by mid-century. Our short-term target is 40 percent (below 2005 levels) by 2025. We have called for 80 percent reductions (below 1990 levels) by 2050. These are ambitious targets, yet the scale and urgency of this challenge demands nothing less.”
“The Green Party is the only party with ambitious, practical targets to tackle climate change in Canada and plan to get there” stated May.
The Green Party’s plan will:
- Unleash an army of carpenters, electricians, and contractors to retro-fit 100 percent of Canada’s existing buildings for 85 percent energy conservation by 2040;
- Provide $400 million in climate financing to developing countries to achieve a new global, inclusive, equitable post-Kyoto Treaty at COP21 in Paris;
- Introduce a carbon price through a Carbon Fee and Dividend system.
Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England and former Governor of the Bank of Canada, highlighted the perils of ignoring climate change on Tuesday, which Ms. May supported: “I fully agree with Mr. Carney’s dire warning that climate change will ‘threaten financial resilience and longer-term prosperity’ if governments and industry refuse to take bold action now.”
Read the Green Party’s platform here.
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Julian Morelli
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Kirsten Strom
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