Cut The Carbon

Without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors, limiting global warming to 1.5°C is beyond reach.

Canada stands at a crucial crossroad in the battle against climate change.

While the challenge of reducing carbon emissions is overwhelming, with well-crafted plans, we have the capacity to achieve this critical goal while maintaining good-paying jobs and addressing global climate change.

Canada possesses a wealth of potential to combat carbon emissions. By leveraging our abundant renewable energy resources, such as wind, solar, hydro, and geothermal power, we can transition towards a greener energy mix. This shift not only reduces our carbon footprint but also creates a myriad of new employment opportunities in the renewable energy sector.

By fostering innovation and supporting clean energy initiatives, Canada can position itself as a global leader in the fight against climate change. This technological advancement will not only generate new sustainable jobs but also attract investments and contribute to a healthier planet.

Collaboration among government, businesses, workers, and communities is vital. Implementing effective policies, promoting sustainable practices, and providing incentives for emission reductions will foster a collective effort towards achieving our carbon reduction targets. By impacted stakeholders from various sectors, we can work to ensure a just and inclusive transition that safeguards livelihoods and promotes economic prosperity.

Canada can demonstrate that environmental stewardship and economic prosperity are not mutually exclusive. Through a comprehensive plan focused on renewable energy, technological advancement, and stakeholder engagement, we can pave the way for a sustainable future while preserving good-paying jobs and addressing global climate change. Together, we can make a difference.

Just and Equitable Transition

Change is guaranteed, justice is not. We cannot continue exploitive economic transitions that leave people out. We need permanent and comprehensive collaboration between labour, employers, and governments to build a clean economy that is sustainable and meets people’s needs.

The Energy Transition Is Already Underway.

Today’s workers are experiencing this change. Workers in the oil sands have seen the number of jobs per barrel of oil continue to decline while record profits are being made in far away boardrooms. They’ve seen increases in automation and they’ve seen all the stories about the demise of their sector. They rarely see anything that includes them in the future.

These workers need bridges to the low-carbon economy. The workers that manufactured the automobile took horses and buggies or walk to work. It doesn’t happen overnight, but it will happen faster that we are expecting.

BLUE GREEN COMMENTS

The Canadian Sustainable Jobs Act

Bill C-50 – An Act respecting accountability, transparency and engagement to support the creation of sustainable jobs for workers and economic growth in a net-zero economy.)

“The Sustainable Jobs Act represents a decent framework to create and maintain good, green, union jobs in Canada. We must remain vigilant to ensure that the plan’s implementation lives up to its promise. Blue Green Canada will continue to demand a solid commitment to both jobs and climate action. We will advocate for increased union participation at all levels, stronger support for affected workers and communities, and for the needed funding and financing to achieve climate goals while creating good, union jobs.”

“The Sustainable Jobs Act is the latest milestone in ongoing efforts to protect workers as the economy transitions to net-zero. Unifor, as a member of Blue Green Canada, is ready to provide the federal government with the guidance necessary to ensure this legislation adequately addresses workers’ concerns.”

“The legislation introduced today steers clear of the important conversations needed on how today’s workers will be impacted, negatively or positively, by the ongoing transition to a net-zero economy. Workers and communities deserve a transparent accounting of not only how the federal government proposes to create sustainable jobs, but how to ensure today’s workforce has a meaningful place in tomorrow’s net-zero economy.”

“Blue Green Canada is eager for legislation that will increase access to good jobs and secure a healthy environment, for now and the future, by addressing our contributions to the global climate crisis. To be impactful, today’s legislation must require Canada’s elected leaders to develop plans in collaboration with impacted workers, employers, Indigenous nations, local and provincial governments, and other stakeholders, to keep Canadians working, eliminate fossil fuel emissions, and develop Green Industrial Policy that gets us to the future we all want.”

“The legislation fails to meet the urgency of the climate crisis, at a time when communities across Canada are experiencing its devastating impacts. Although the proposed legislation is a positive step towards including affected workers and communities in the energy transition, it needs to be strengthened to avoid pitfalls like greenwashing and ignoring obligations towards Indigenous peoples.”

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Cut The Carbon

Canada stands at a crucial crossroad in the battle against climate change.

Just and Equitable Transition

The Energy Transition Is Already Underway.

BLUE GREEN COMMENTS

The Canadian Sustainable Jobs Act

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