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Environmental issues
Recommendation 6:
Tag public infrastructure investments for better tracking. We propose slotting climate related infrastructure investments into four categories: 1) low- or no-carbon, 2) low-carbon enabling, 3) resilient, and 4) natural.
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Recommendation 15:
Supporting Indigenous-led opportunities that accelerate clean growth. Indigenous-led initiatives can achieve multiple economic, social, environmental, and climate benefits simultaneously. Additional support for Indigenous protected areas, land management, renewable energy projects, resilient housing, fire management, and other opportunities linked to climate change objectives could help accelerate clean growth progress in Canada.
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Recommendation 3:
Support must be distributed in a manner consistent with Indigenous sovereignty, a climate resilient economy and worker rights, including safe and fair labour standards and a right to unionize. Improved conditions for essential service workers must be maintained beyond this crisis.
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Recommendation 12:
Support local waste pickers to improve recycling rates by paying them to collect and sort waste.
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Recommendation 66:
Support local waste pickers to improve recycling rates by paying them to collect and sort waste.
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Recommendation 55:
Support efforts to regulate the plastics industry at local, national, and international scales.
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Recommendation 45:
Study the symptoms and drivers of environmental injustice in your communities, with a special focus on waste pickers and vulnerable communities impacted by the plastics industry.
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Recommendation 54:
Speak out on behalf of communities and individuals whose voices are often excluded from decision making processes.
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Recommendation 14:
Slowing the loss of climate-related ecosystem services. Slash burning practices used by logging companies, draining of wetlands for agriculture or development, deforestation for industrial activities, and many other actions are decreasing the benefits nature provides to people today and will provide to people in the future. Climate change will further exacerbate many of these pressures on ecosystems.
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Recommendation 48:
Serve as an intermediary between the informal sector and private and government actors.
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