Upcoming meetings and a call to take some climate emergency next steps!

The next meeting of the Hamilton 350 Committee is this coming Wednesday, May 15 at 7 pm and we have confirmed the Environment Hamilton offices at 22 Wilson as the location. A major agenda item will be the holding a public meeting in Hamilton on a Green New Deal for Canada in response to the call issued by dozens of organizations from across the country including 350.org. The public meeting is currently set for Friday May 24 at 7 pm in rooms 192-193 of Hamilton City Hall.

Climate Emergency next steps:
The city staff report on implementing the climate emergency declaration is expected in June, but there are further steps that you should urge councillors to take now. These include:

1. Hold a workshop with an external climate expert to bring councillors and staff up to date on the climate emergency.
2. Hold at least one public education and feedback meeting in each ward on the climate emergency. Invite other organizations to assist in promoting and participating in the meetings.
3. Send Hamilton’s climate emergency declaration to other Ontario municipalities. Invite them to take similar action and offer to work with them to press for federal and provincial government action.

If you have input and advice to the city on specific actions you think Hamilton should take to slash local greenhouse gas emissions and/or drawdown carbon from the atmosphere, please share this with Hamilton 350 committee to coordinate and strengthen these actions.

​Further support for climate emergency declarations includes a call for an Ontario declaration made by the official opposition party in the legislature. See details at https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/05/09/news/ontario-ndp-wants-declare-climate-emergency-doug-ford-wont-let-them