Add Your Voice: Updating NB’s Climate Action Plan
Our toolkit helps you call for affordable, reliable and sustainable electricity in N.B.
Our toolkit helps you call for affordable, reliable and sustainable electricity in N.B.
Are you worried about climate change? Do you want the provincial government to do more to protect you and your family from its impacts? Now is your chance to speak up.
The provincial government is preparing to write New Brunswick’s next five-year climate action plan and is seeking public input until Feb. 24, 2022.
This is your chance to tell the government how you feel about climate change, how it’s affected you and your family, and how the government can help make it easier and more affordable for you to reduce the energy you consume—from retrofitting your home with better insulation, windows and doors, to expanding resources so it’s easier to own and operate an electric vehicle.
Our toolkit below will help you participate in the public consultation. We strongly encourage you to add your voice and share these resources with friends, family and neighbours so they can have their say, too.
We’ve all seen the changes. From more intense rain, wind, and ice storms causing floods and power outages, to hotter days and seasons bringing dry summers and ticks, to sea level rise and storm surges tearing up our coasts, extreme weather is putting our communities and families at risk and disturbing life support systems. We all know this is not how it is supposed to be.
Together, we can make it right.
How to participate
There are two ways to take part in the public consultation. You can fill out the government’s survey here and/or you can email your comments to climatechangeNBchangementsclimatiques@gnb.ca.
We’re here to help
Our resources can help you get started. Below we have two sample submissions that you can use in full, or, preferably, which you can add to with your own concerns, comments or ideas.
The first sample letter speaks to how climate change makes us feel and calls for serious action from the Higgs government. The second focuses more on the technical solutions we’re recommending to address climate change and energy affordability in New Brunswick.
For more guidance and a deeper dive, see our Dr. Louise Comeau’s presentation to the Standing Committee climate hearings earlier this month.
Toolkit: Climate Plan Update
Toolkit: Climate Plan Update
Sample letter: climate change
Sample letter: policy solutions
CCNB presentation
Video: Comeau at Committee
Learn more about climate change and solutions in New Brunswick
Learn more about climate change and solutions in New Brunswick
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