CELA communications intern, Isobel Mason and Senior Researcher Kathleen Cooper blog about calls for a green and just recovery, highlighting the path forward in specific recommendations from the Green Budget Coalition.
Media Release from Friends of Simcoe Forest Inc. Download here: FSF-MR-Oct19-2020
Between Friends of Simcoe Forest (Inc), Applicant, and Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Local Planning Appeal Tribunal, Corporation of the County of Simcoe, Township of Springwater, Nicholyn Farms Inc., Edward Krajcir and Scarlett Graham Krajcir
Four key recommendations include building retrofits, clean transportation, nature-based climate solutions and protected areas
The need for recovery from the social and economic impacts of COVID-19 task us with a historic responsibility. We can choose to reinvest in the status quo, or we can rebuild better and more safely. The Green Budget Coalition strongly encourages making climate and biodiversity objectives central to Canada's recovery.
Repost of article from National Post - We must get serious about responding to the combined climate and biodiversity crisis that was already hitting us hard before the virus struck.
