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RISE for CLIMATE JUSTICE! Sept 27th, 2019 / Waterloo, Ontario – People from across the region gathered today at Waterloo Town Square, in the largest environmental gathering the region has ever seen, to call for immediate and urgent action on climate change. The 5000+ people here joined more than 7 million participants in over 160 countries around the world who took to the streets this week to make it clear that we need urgent and ambitious action TODAY, as part of the Global Climate Strike (www.globalclimatestrike.net)

Today’s strike brought together indigenous people, students, parents, and workers, all calling for one single thing … the right to a livable future! In a year that has seen new heat records, the strongest hurricanes, intense rainfall, and rapid melting of the ice caps. In a year when Canada declared a climate emergency and bought an oil pipeline. In a year that has seen the Amazon rainforest, often known as the lungs of the Earth, burning for cattle. In this year we have seen the largest climate strikes ever recorded.

In this year the students and young people have taken to the streets to stand up for their future. And today the Waterloo Region community and the global community gathered to stand up with the students to demand action!

Over the past year, we have had several scientific reports, including the IPCC SR1.5, the WMO Global Climate in 2015-2019, and the IPCC SR on Ocean and Cryosphere, that have presented the stark impacts of climate change and the action needed to avoid the worst of these impacts. The science is clear we need ambitious action today!

We URGENTLY NEED all levels of government to commit to a 50% reduction in emissions by 2030, leading to net-zero emissions by 2050, if we are going to be secure a livable planet for future generations, and deliver a safe climate future for all life on earth.

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www.climatestrikewr.ca

RISE FOR CLIMATE!

Editing / graphics:
Better Creative www.bettercreative.ca

Videographers:
Avery Rouleau
Brendan Stanton
Chiamaka Okafor-Justin
Nolan O’Kane
Victor Cannell

Photography:
Pinky Stroker

Monday Sept 23, 6:30-9pm, A screening of the climate action documentary Beyond Crisis, Princess Twin Cinema 46 King St N, Waterloo (map). Register on EventBrite or through Facebook (Pay-by-Donation / PWYC).

• 6:30pm – Mingling for climate action,
• 7:00pm – Beyond Crisis,
• 8:00pm – Panel discussion.

BEYOND CRISIS is a story of hope for a rapidly changing world: a meditative call to action that explores what it means to be living in this new era of climate change, as told by over fifty diverse voices from across Canada, the U.S. and beyond.

Monday, Sept 23rd, 7:00 – 9pm — Wilmot’s Climate Emergency Declaration Vote. Lets fill the council chambers! (see facebook page for Details), 60 Snyder’s Road West, Baden, Ontario (streetview, map).

• Join us at Wilmot Township Council’s next meeting where Councillors will be voting on a Climate Emergency declaration for the Township of Wilmot! The declaration also includes a carbon budget, which will keep the township accountable and on track to meet its emission goals.
• The Climate Emergency motion will likely be early on the agenda, so please be sure to arrive on time (as close to 7:00 pm as possible).
• We want to fill the chambers in support of this motion, so invite everyone you know!!

Countries from all around the world are having or planing their own Climate Strikes. We in Waterloo Region (Ontario, Canada) will be having our strike on the 27th of September (2019). What’s interesting is that we are seeing interest in what we are doing, on our web site, from all over the world: