GBCAN member groups worked with their communities to spread the word about climate change and actions we all can take. GBCAN also has partnered with other groups, including The Sustainability Project and the Earth Day Grey Bruce 2022 organizing committee on community activities. From Carbon Footprint workshops and challenges to online presentations and live events, in 2021 we have reached more than 2000 people in Grey, Bruce, Collingwood and Wasaga Beach.

Do you know what you might do to reduce your own carbon footprint and slow climate change? 

Do you know if your municipality has a climate action plan?

We need adaptation plans to combat the increasingly catastrophic storms that have devastated some Canadian communities with flooding, mudslides or rising water that are likely already increasing your home insurance?

Do you know that Canada ranks among the 20 countries with the largest emissions on the globe, putting us in the top 10 contributors to global warming? In 2023, Canada committed to the UN that we would reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 40-45% below 2005 levels by 2030. Just  south of the border the US had committed to a 50% reduction in the same time frame.

The UN calls achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 the world’s most urgent mission. Current targets call for a 45% emission by 2030 [this contradicts the statement above]. Currently the earth is already about 1.1degree Centigrade warmer than it was in the late 1880’s. Scientist are urging action now to prevent reaching 1.5 degrees the point at which the climate as we know it begins to change with devastating consequences. Yet the latest UN Gap report is subtitled “Too Little, Too Slow” and many watching the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) are signalling disappointment with the outcomes.