Climate Action During COVID 19

Climate Action During COVID 19

1. Stay Informed. Sign Up for Newsletters and Updates from Environmental Organizations

2. Sign Petitions in Support of Climate Change Actions and Initiatives

3. Participate in Virtual Climate Change Workshops, Seminars, and Rallies

Here are some suggestions for finding these events: 

  1. Canadian Climate Challenge  

4. Talk to Your Family and Friends about Climate Change, and What They Can Do about It

With many of us at home with free time, consider hosting a virtual conversation with family about the climate emergency and the opportunities to learn from the COVID-19 experience. Here are some suggestions:

  1. Kitchen Table Climate Conversations with ClimateFast
  2. Carbon Conversations Toronto
  3. Youtube video: The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it | Katharine Hayhoe  

5. Advocate for Having your Pension Plan including the Canada Pension Plan, Divest from Fossil Fuels

6. Volunteer and Join a Local Climate Change Organization

7. Call, Email, Text or Use Social Media to Send a Message to Your City Councilor, Your MP, and/or Your MPP about Your Concerns about Climate Change

Here are some suggestions:

  1. End fossil fuel subsidies (Federal and Provincial)
  2. Ban single-use plastics (Federal, Provincial, and Municipal)
  3. Use COVID-19 emergency policies to kick-start green technologies, and worker training and industry re-tooling,  and oil well remediation (Federal, Provincial)
  4. Pension plan fossil fuel divestment (Federal, Provincial, Municipal, and private)
  5. For example: Both Canada and the City of Toronto have declared a climate emergency. Now, as the weakness in our social programs and the impact of COVID-19 on the vulnerable is clear, take time to make this point to our politicians.

8. Call in to Your Radio Station’s Phone-in Shows to Speak Up About Climate Change

Call in to your radio station’s phone-in shows to speak up about climate change.

9. Write Letters To the Editor of Your Local Newspaper to Express Your Concerns About Climate Change

10. Reduce Your Personal Carbon Footprint

Here are some helpful tools:

1. Global Footprint Network 
2. Project Neutral.

11. Make a Personal Carbon Footprint Commitment

Take a pledge with Climate Pledge Collective.

12. Investigate Whether Your Personal Investments are Free From Fossil Fuels. Consider Investing in Ethical Funds When the Markets Stabilize

Investigate Whether Your Personal Investments are Free From Fossil Fuels. Consider Investing in Ethical Funds When the Markets Stabilize.

13. Engage With Your Bank to Advocate for Them to Divest from Fossil Fuels

 Here are some suggestions for doing this:

Rainforest Alliance Network (Explore the Data)

14. Make a Donation to a Local Climate Change Organization

15. Remember that We are Doing this for Our Children and our Grandchildren, and for All Future Generations

Remember that We are Doing this for Our Children and our Grandchildren, and for All Future Generations