BC recently released their revised Climate Preparedness and Adaptation Strategy (BC-CPAS). It’s an important step for BC and for Canada as governments invest more thinking, planning, and hopefully resources into getting prepared for and taking #climateaction by adapting to the unavoidable risks of climate change (those risks that are already locked in). You can learn more about the BC-CPAS and read a summary or the full report, either way I encourage you to read and think critically about the strategy and then jump into the conversation by providing the province with your feedback. They have provided some submission criteria for the feedback they are hoping to get, and offered these guiding questions:

  1. Does not contain profanity or is defamatory, threatening, hateful, personally disparaging, harassing, indecent, vulgar, obscene, illegal, immoral or sexually explicit (partially masking profanity or other unacceptable language by substituting asterisks or other symbols into a word is not acceptable if the word remains recognizable);
  2. Does not appear to, or does actually, infringe the copyright, trade-mark, right of privacy, right of publicity or any other intellectual property or other proprietary right of any third party;
  3. Does not contain information about, or images (e.g., photographs, videos or illustrations) of, any person other than the person submitting the content;
  4. Does not advertise any product, person or organization, or directs attention to another website for personal gain;
  5. Does not provide links to, or information about, other sites that contain unlawful, objectionable or inappropriate content;
  6. Does not make unproven or unsupported accusations against individuals, groups or organizations.

With this unprecedented heat wave event in BC, and Western Canada, climate change impacts are becoming more obvious and increasing the urgency of our collective need to take #climate action here in BC and across Canada. Engaged citizens make democracy work, and taking the time to review and provide feedback will support a more robust and effective climate action strategy for BC. As part of the MA and Graduate Diploma programs in Climate Action Leadership program community, whether you are a student, a faculty member, or simply interested in the program and its goal of building #climateactionleadership, I hope you will share your insights, and don’t forget to include us and help expand and extend our community of passionate, committed, courageous and creative leaders.

Dr. Robin Cox, Program Head MACAL

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