[KWPeace-groups] NATURE WALK in support of A JUST TRANSITION

[Tamara Lorincz]

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SAVE THE DATE!   Saturday, March 12, 2022  2 PM
NATURE WALK in support of A JUST TRANSITION

Matt Feagan, a member of the Climate Justice Working Group, University of Waterloo, a new initiative to add institutional pressure to bring a Just Transition into being.  He has advised us of an event they are planning as part of a nation-wide event in support of Just Transitions as we recover from Covid 19 AND move forward on addressing climate change.  He has provided the following information and I'll update as he firms up the details of the event.

"What needs to change to achieve climate justice in Kitchener-Waterloo? How do we work together to bring about a "Just Transition"? Please join the University of Waterloo's Climate Justice Working Group for a walk in Huron Natural Area, Saturday March 12 at 2pm, as we share responses to these questions and learn about the history and planning process behind the Huron Natural Area. Bring your family, colleagues, neighbors, and friends to start a conversation about how we can take action in calling on Parliament to pass bold legislation that accelerates the transition to 100% renewable energy while creating millions of good, green jobs. Let's learn together how to walk the talk of climate justice."

Just Transitions means that nobody gets left behind, that as we move through everything that needs to be done to recalibrate our economy, our communities, our energy systems, our homes, we do so mindfully.  First, we ensure that the workers involved in fossil fuel and related industries receive the training and support they need to move into other careers.  But Just Transitions is bigger than that.  We got into this climate mess because our whole economy is based on the idea of constant growth, fueled by cheap energy.  But that's a private sector model, that considers investments in people, in education and healthcare, in infrastructure, in parks and recreation, in transportation, in buildings to be costs to be cut.  However, if we turn the model around, to consider what builds a strong nation, strong communities, people who are secure, respected, capable of making their best contribution to their families and communities, it's ensuring people are supported and well educated, healthy and cared for as needed, throughout our lifetimes.  It's about having efficient, clean energy buildings and transportation options.  It's about safeguarding our greenspaces, for healthy recreation, for the farms which nourish us, to ensure the security of our groundwater, waterways, wetlands, the forests that help cleanse the air we breathe.

Waterloo Region and all the cities and townships within the Region have approved the 50by30 goals and action strategies, which puts with just over 700 other world communities which have taken up this challenge to lead on what so desperately needs to be done, and to push our provincial and federal governments to do their part to help us all, collectively, to achieve these goals.  We all have our own part to play.  Come out for this walk, enjoy the Huron Natural Area, 801 Trillium Drive, Kitchener, exchange ideas about what we can all do to further the objectives of a Just Transition in our community ... and in our nation.

We in the Council of Canadians are among the leaders of the Just Transitions activities across the country, promoting the ideas and specific strategies, putting petitions for a Just Transition into the Parliamentary record through our local MPs (Mike Morrice is tabling the signatures from this Region), and advocating for March 12 to be a day of action, calling for a Just Transition across Canada.  We are very pleased to support our allies as we walk together to signal our support for a Just Transition, an inclusive transition which leaves no one behind, getting to know one another and talking about how we make this happen - together.

Marilyn

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