open-letter-sent-to-all-of-canadas-political-leaders-urges-cooperative-climate-action-after-devastating-jasper-wildfire-1da5c8507102e93b.pdf

The document argues that decisive action on climate change, specifically regulating the oil and gas industry and its financial backers, is necessary to prevent the worsening of wildfires, heat domes, and floods in Canada. It highlights the disproportionate impact of these events on Indigenous peoples and criticizes the Canadian government for prioritizing fossil fuel infrastructure, such as the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, over emissions reductions.

• The authors assert that climate change, fueled by fossil fuel combustion, increases the frequency, heat, and size of wildfires, noting that extreme fire weather conditions in Quebec were more than twice as likely last year due to climate change.
• A significant portion of burned forest area in the United States and Western Canada over recent decades is linked to 88 specific cement manufacturers and fossil fuel producers.
• Climate-related events have disproportionately affected Indigenous peoples, who accounted for over 42% of fire evacuations between 1980 and 2021. In the record-breaking wildfires of last summer, 25,000 Indigenous people were evacuated, representing 10% of all evacuees despite making up only 5% of the population.
• The letter criticizes the Canadian government for continuing to fund fossil fuel projects while failing to cap emissions, citing $1.5 billion in new government financing allocated in the last month to Coastal GasLink ($200 million), Strathcona Resources ($500 million), Cedar LNG ($500 million), and Enbridge ($300 million), as well as the $34 billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
• The undersigned organizations demand that the federal government regulate oil and gas companies, which are responsible for one third of Canada's carbon pollution, and the financial institutions that fund them.

APA

Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (2024). open-letter-sent-to-all-of-canadas-political-leaders-urges-cooperative-climate-action-after-devastating-jasper-wildfire-1da5c8507102e93b.pdf. https://cape.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Open-Letter-Sent-to-All-of-Canadas-Political-Leaders-Urges-Cooperative-Climate-Action-After-Devastating-Jasper-Wildfire.pdf

Chicago

Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. open-letter-sent-to-all-of-canadas-political-leaders-urges-cooperative-climate-action-after-devastating-jasper-wildfire-1da5c8507102e93b.pdf. 2024. https://cape.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Open-Letter-Sent-to-All-of-Canadas-Political-Leaders-Urges-Cooperative-Climate-Action-After-Devastating-Jasper-Wildfire.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

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