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An opportunity to fix what was broken
Media Release | Wednesday, 09 Dec 2015(OTTAWA) - Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada and MP (Saanich-Gulf Islands), announced today that she has placed a number of motions on the order paper to serve as a starting point...
Green parliamentarians from around the world call for climate treaty that works
Media Release | Wednesday, 09 Dec 2015(OTTAWA) - Green MPs meeting on the morning of December 9th (Paris time) reviewed the state of play in current negotiations. "It is clear that the collective commitments from all nations here amount...
COP21 Blog Update
Blog | Wednesday, 09 Dec 2015A brief blog today. The talks were mostly off-line – one to one (or rather, one COP president to a larger regional grouping, one after the other). Claire Martin had a not entirely small tragedy as a...
Greens Applaud Finland’s plan for a Guaranteed Annual Income
Media Release | Tuesday, 08 Dec 2015(OTTAWA) - The Green Party of Canada applauds the recent announcement by Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila, to implement a Basic Annual Income. It will make Finland the first in the world to provide...
Green Party news from COP21: Canada making a difference
Media Release | Tuesday, 08 Dec 2015(OTTAWA) -The Green Party of Canada group at COP21 is encouraged by the constructive atmosphere as the negotiations enter the final days. “It is critical that the community of nations succeed in...
COP21 – negotiations move behind closed doors - Day 8
Blog | Tuesday, 08 Dec 2015Monday December 7th was the official opening of the High-Level segment. In the normal rhythm of the COPs, this would have been a big day with ministers of environment from around the world, and the...
Green Party committed to supporting the Inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls
Media Release | Tuesday, 08 Dec 2015OTTAWA – The Green Party applauded the government’s plan for extensive consultation with the families and communities of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. “Federal action on missing...
COP21 moves to new phase - Day 7
Blog | Monday, 07 Dec 2015Sunday and COP21 moved to the working groups to review cross-cutting issues. There were four groups announced by COP President Fabius last night, with another announced today – adaptation. We also...
COP21 Blog at mid-point - Day 6
Blog | Sunday, 06 Dec 2015I am amazed. The deadline of having ADP wrap by noon Saturday and send a draft text accepted as a sufficient basis for political negotiation was met. The draft text with the addition of “reflections...
Green Party Statement on National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women
Statement | Sunday, 06 Dec 2015(OTTAWA) - The National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women marks the anniversary of the 1989 murders of 14 women at l'École Polytechnique de Montréal. Today, the Green Party of...