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Climate justice

Recommendation 1: Take bold action to tackle the climate crisis, while ensuring lower income households are not made worse off, and indeed, that social justice and economic security is enhanced.


Climate justice

Recommendation 2: Continue with annual increases to the carbon tax while ensuring this taxation incorporates low income transfers that sufficiently offset any negative impacts to low income households or individuals (such as an expansion of the low-income carbon tax credit).


Climate justice

Recommendation 3: Develop localized renewable energy projects (wind, solar, tidal), working with communities and Indigenous Nations as partners, to help communities avoid energy poverty and reduce emissions.


Climate justice

Recommendation 4: Provide resources and subsidies to low-income households to improve energy efficiency, install electric heat pumps, household-level solar and other renewable energy sources.


Climate justice

Recommendation 5: Implement UN Sustainable Development Goal 1.5: ‘By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social, and environmental shocks and disasters’ in B.C.


Climate justice

Recommendation 6: Focus and prioritize the creation of green, unionized jobs in multiple sectors including health, education, child care, transit, and the building industry.


Climate justice

Recommendation 7: Prioritize UNDRIP, Indigenous sovereignty, and gender equality in all climate change related policy planning.


Climate justice

Recommendation 8: Develop and implement policy to ensure the security and resilience of workers, their families, and communities as we transition from fossil fuel industries to a green economy.


Climate justice

Recommendation 9: Prioritize a multi-level government approach to climate change mitigation and adaptation.


Equity

Recommendation 10: Address the needs of those most likely to be living in poverty and impacted by intersecting colonialism, racism, ableism, heterosexism, transphobia, and gender inequality.


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