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Poverty and economic inequality


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.


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.


Equity

Recommendation 15: Guarantee access to income and disability assistance for all regardless of immigration and citizenship status.


Equity

Recommendation 17: Establish stand-alone pay equity and pay transparency legislation.


Equity

Recommendation 18: Provide training for frontline ministry workers, judges, police, housing, and medical staff in trauma-informed service provision to ensure people who access services are treated with compassion, patience, and understanding.


Equity

Recommendation 19: Implement investments and policies to target LGBTQIA2S+ poverty.


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