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

An open letter from 80 organizations, including the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, urging Canadian political leaders to take urgent climate action and regulate the oil and gas industry following the Jasper wildfire.

• The authors argue that decisive action on climate change is the only way to stem wildfires and other severe weather events, noting that the burning of fossil fuels makes wildfires more frequent, hotter, and larger. They cite that climate change more than doubled the likelihood of extreme fire weather in Quebec last year and that 37% of burned forest area in the United States and Western Canada over recent decades is linked to 88 cement manufacturers and major fossil fuel producers.
• The letter highlights a disproportionate impact of climate-related events on Indigenous peoples, stating they accounted for more than 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 80 undersigned organizations call for the federal government and provincial leaders to immediately regulate oil and gas companies—which they state are responsible for one third of Canada's carbon pollution—and the financial institutions that fund them. They demand a cap on the industry's climate pollution and an end to the flow of public and private funds to oil and gas.
• The document criticizes the Canadian government for prioritizing fossil fuel infrastructure over emission reductions, citing the $34 billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. It notes that in the last month, at least $1.5 billion in new government financing was allocated to Cedar LNG ($500 million), Strathcona Resources ($500 million), Enbridge ($300 million), and Coastal GasLink ($200 million).
• The letter lists numerous Canadian communities devastated by wildfires, including Jasper, and others such as Fort McMurray (2016), Lytton (2021), and several locations in 2023 including Enterprise, NWT; Mistissini, QC; and Fort Chipewyan, AB. It reports that more than 750 wildfires were burning across Canada at the time of writing, with the majority out of control.

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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