by Manitoba's Climate Action Team | Mar 11, 2024 | Policy
2024/2025 Budget Recommendations from Manitoba’s Climate Action Team submitted to Finance Minister Adrian Sala and Premier Wab Kinew Dear Premier Kinew and Minister Sala, We’re grateful for the investments you’re making in Manitoba. Your commitments related to...
by Manitoba's Climate Action Team | Feb 22, 2024 | Policy
By: Emma Power We’re smoking twenty packs a day, eating exclusively junk food, and never rising from the couch. It’s fine – the free healthcare system will manage our diabetes, heart disease, and lung cancer later, right? We know our habits are damaging us...
by Manitoba's Climate Action Team | Feb 2, 2024 | In The News, Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFebruary 2, 2024 Hydro Rate Increases Unnecessary for Building SectorReport Proves Benefits of a Geothermal Utility In light of recent comments by Manitoba Hydro CEO Jay Grewal, Manitoba’s Climate Action Team (CAT) is highlighting an opportunity...
by Manitoba's Climate Action Team | Sep 6, 2023 | Policy, Road to Resilience
By: Mathew Scammell Measuring total emissions without taking into account population is inaccurate There are several ways to measure a society’s contributions to the carbon emissions currently accumulating in Earth’s atmosphere. Misrepresenting the data can cause...
by Manitoba's Climate Action Team | Jul 11, 2023 | Climate-Resilient Living, Human Impacts, Policy, Road to Resilience
In March 2023, Manitoba’s Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Office, Climate Reality, and Manitoba’s Climate Action Team commission a poll through Probe Research in an effort to learn how involved Manitobans think our provincial government should be...
by Manitoba's Climate Action Team | May 10, 2023 | Climate Action Plans, Climate-Resilient Living, Human Impacts, Policy, Road to Resilience
By: Emma Power No further emission increases are tolerable. Any more half-baked measures will half-bake us. Every year in mid-April, Canada publishes its National Inventory Report (NIR). The report outlines the greenhouse gas (GHG) sources and sinks across the...
by Manitoba's Climate Action Team | Apr 21, 2023 | Climate-Resilient Living, Get Involved
By: Trevor Lehmann “Hope is short-lived unless coupled with a desire for future worlds that are not depressing but instead so enticing that they might lead us to yearn for a new way of being.” – Sarah Ray, A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety At sixteen, my father took...
by Manitoba's Climate Action Team | Apr 20, 2023 | In The News, Policy, Press Release, Road to Resilience
The first section of Volume 3 of Manitoba’s Road to Resilience launches today, and we’re pleased to have the support of Manitoba businesses who are looking towards a stronger provincial economy Members of Manitoba’s business community and local...
by Manitoba's Climate Action Team | Mar 8, 2023 | Policy, Press Release, Road to Resilience
Climate scientists have tasked policymakers with reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to net-zero by 2050. By 2030, the federal government has pledged to reduce national emissions by 40% to 45% below 2005 levels. With only seven years left until that first...
by Manitoba's Climate Action Team | Mar 2, 2023 | Green Jobs, In The News, Policy, Road to Resilience
Written By: Hannah MuhajarineAs published in the Winnipeg Free Press, February 24th, 2023 With the price of gas, groceries, utilities, mortgages and rent all up, Manitobans are feeling the squeeze of inflation. The Manitoba government’s response has focused on tax...