The Community Action Handbook
a crowdsourced handbook from the Climate Caucus
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Mission
The Climate Action Handbook provides a space for municipal leaders, civic organisations, public & private institutions and specialists of all kinds to collaborate on rapid and sophisticated community action, focused on action that municipal leaders can take.
This is a crowd-sourced document; contributions to this document are welcome from all.
How to use this handbook
1. ? Subscribe for updates
* Join Nudj, our collaboration platform where we drive action and connect with one another
* For deep dive discussions, each section has a separate Group you can join.
2. ? Share it with your fellow community leaders
* Retweet this: [add a tweet here[a] once we have started to build it out]
* Share in your specialist communities
* WhatsApp it to your colleagues and friends
* Tell the authors of your favourite newsletter
3. ✏️ Contribute where you can
* Add your thoughts on how local governments can drive climate action to the relevant section.
* If you are working on a project yourself, join the chat in the relevant section and tell us about it!
* This homepage can’t be edited, but all the subsections below are a collaborative effort.
* If you’re not sure where something should go, put it in miscellaneous and we'll find a home for it.
* If you feel like you want to make a new section, chat to us first.
4. ? Donate
* We (@ClimateLC) are a non-partisan network of 250+ elected local leaders in Canada who are working together to create and implement policy to hold global temperature to 1.5°C. We have a self-funded skeleton staff. Please donate so we can continue pushing for climate action: Give £50 [Link to follow]
Contents
Climate and Covid-19
* Context
* Risks
* Opportunities
* How to continue talking about Climate and driving the Climate Change agenda in the context of Coronavirus
Pulling the policy lever at provincial and federal level
* Municipal asks for the Canadian Federal Government
* Municipal asks for Canadian provincial governments
* Asks for FCM, UBCM, AMO etc. (Please add this in!)
* More resources
* Municipal intervention in the Supreme Court hearing on carbon pricing - join us in the fight!
Climate Action Planning
* [Please add]
Waste
* Raising public awareness
* Universal waste collection
* Safe waste treatment
* Financial stability of waste infrastructure
* Related organisations
* More resources
* Add more here...
Land use
* [Please add]
Active transportation
* [Please add]
Buildings
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Food security
* [Stated but needs work. Please contribute.]
Other
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