by Manitoba's Climate Action Team | Aug 9, 2024 | Climate-Resilient Living, Get Involved, Human Impacts
Stories help us visualize a future filled with hope, and they help keep us motivated as we dream about the lives we want our kids, grandkids, and loved ones to experience as they get older. Stories also help us communicate our fears and anxieties, and help others feel...
by Manitoba's Climate Action Team | Jun 4, 2024 | Get Involved, Human Impacts, Road to Resilience
By Mathew Scammell Most of us in Manitoba know that the climate is changing and that humans are responsible[1]. The scientific evidence supporting the claim that the burning of fossil fuels is to blame has only increased in recent decades. We now find ourselves in...
by Manitoba's Climate Action Team | May 18, 2024 | Human Impacts, Policy, Road to Resilience
By Andrea Pelletier and Bethany Daman Emissions data for Manitoba were just released via the National Inventory Report, once again highlighting the reality that our province is falling behind in the global race to net zero. Manitoba and Alberta are the only Canadian...
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 | Feb 2, 2023 | Climate Action Plans, Community for Climate, Human Impacts, Policy, Road to Resilience
This post is part three in a three part series written by Emma Power, MEJC and CAT organizer, about Climate Action Plans — Part 3: Climate-Shlimate… make whatever plans you want If you’re reading this, you probably aren’t the sort of person who cringes at any...