Media Release
For Immediate Release April 28, 2005
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Forget Politics, Implement Kyoto, Say Enviros
Environmental groups make Canada-wide appeal to national
party leaders
VICTORIA — The BC Sustainable Energy Association (BCSEA)
has joined with 33 environmental, labour and green industry
associations to urge all parties put aside their differences
long enough to ensure that measures necessary for implement-ation
of the Kyoto Protocol, introduced in the February budget,
are approved by Parliament without delay.
Concerned that an election will be called before the recently
announced federal measures can get underway, the groups have
written a joint letter to Prime Minister Martin, Stephen
Harper, Gilles Duceppe and Jack Layton.
“We want to remind the leaders that protecting future
generations from climate change is more important than playing
politics in the present,” said David Coon of the Conservation
Council of New Brunswick who initiated the letter late last
week.
Climatologists around the world are calling on all countries
to urgently reduce greenhouse gas emissions to prevent a
doubling of the carbon dioxide concentra-tions in the atmosphere
which is projected to cause disastrous floods, storms, droughts,
forest fires and sea level rise.
The Canadian North is already experiencing higher temperatures,
thinning of sea ice and other impacts of climate change.
Glaciers around the world are melting at unprecedented rates.
“There is no more time for politics on this issue.
All parties must work together and for now that means passing
the budget and getting action underway,” said BCSEA
president Guy Dauncey, who has written extensively on global
warming.
The groups hope all political parties will embrace climate
action as a fundamental plank in their platforms and work
together to develop a national consensus on measures to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions.
For more information please contact:
Guy Dauncey, BCSEA president (250) 881-1304 guydauncey@earthfuture.com
David Coon (506) 458-8747 ccnb@nb.aibn.com
SUPPORTING GROUPS:
1. Bathurst Sustainable Development NB
2. BC Sustainable Energy Association, BC
3. Canadian Labour Congress
4. Canadian Association for Renewable Energies
5. Citizens Environmental Alliance, ON
6. Coalition for a Green Economy - Toronto
7. Conservation Council of New Brunswick/
Conseil de conservation du Nouveau-Brunswick, NB
8. Earth Energy Society of Canada
9. Ecology North, NWT
10. Ecology Action Centre NS
11. Edmonton Friends of the North Environmental Society
12. Eneract, ON
13. Falls Brook Centre, NB
14. Greenspiration
15. GSX Concerned Citizens Coalition, BC
16. Manitoba Wildlands , MB
17. Marine & Environmental Law Institute, NS
18. Nature Saskatchewan, SK
19. Ontario Sustainable Energy Association
20. Pembina Institute AB
21. Petitcodiac Riverkeeper, NB
22. Pollution Probe, ON
23. Resource Conservation Manitoba, MB
24. Saskatchewan Environmental Society, SK
25. Sierra Club of Canada
26. Sierra Youth Coalition
27. Toronto Environmental Alliance, ON
28. Toxics Watch Society of Alberta, AB
29. University of New Brunswick Student Union ECO Committee
30. University of New Brunswick Environmental Society
31. West Coast Environmental Law Association, BC
32. Windfall Ecology Centre, ON
33. World Federalist Movement - Canada
34. Yukon Conservation Society, YK
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