Climate Justice Victoria

Is the #CleanBC review going to be released today? #bcpoli

Project to widen busy Galloping Goose Trail section to start in spring A four-kilometre section of the Galloping Goose Regional Trail, from the Selkirk Trestle south, will be widened with separate areas for cyclists and pedestrians.

“This is how we avoid building more multi-hundred-million-dollar [highway] interchanges... More people will turn to cycling if it’s safe the whole way” @capitalbike.ca advocacy chair @robbernhardt.bsky.social www.timescolonist.com/local-news/p... #yyj #bcpoli #CleanBC

YouTube video by More Perfect Union The REAL reason Trump is attacking public transit

Why are Trump and other Big Oil assets cutting funding for public transit, walking, rolling and cycling? It isn't just the money. They also want us to feel lonely and alone. www.youtube.com/shorts/IVefl... #bcpoli #cdnpoli #climatejustice @moreperfectunion.bsky.social

Better public transit (including paratransit), and more & better sidewalks, and more pwd permit parking, and this bsky.app/profile/eric...

Want more and better transit‽ Join us Dec 4th at 6:30pm to shape the future of Better Transit YYJ.
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End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff Wealthy countries agree to triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal

After two weeks of #COP30 negotiations, countries agreed to BEGIN DISCUSSIONS on fossil fuel phase out. And as the article says, "they achieved this incremental progress only in the teeth of implacable opposition from oil-producing countries."

THIS is the problem with requiring unanimous decisions.

A climate deal without explicit language calling for a fossil fuel phaseout is like a ceasefire without explicit language calling for a suspension of hostilities.
#COP30

"#COP30 takes a hopeful step towards justice, but does not go far enough"

CAN welcomes adoption of Just Transition mechanism as one of strongest rights-based outcomes in the history of COP.

Read our press release:

climatenetwork.org/2025/11/22/c...

#BAM #JustTransitionRising

A network of high-quality *bike and roll* routes (and better public transit) is what #yyj needs. More and more people are using wheelchairs and (3&4 wheel) mobility scooters on bike and roll lanes & routes here and everywhere. Read more: ecoplanning.ca/want-better-... #bcpoli

Hundreds join protest to protect Goldstream from highway expansion The demonstration was led by WSÁNEĆ leaders and environmental organizations who say the project will do more harm than good.

"Options—including... more public transit from one side of the Malahat to the other—should be explored before committing a large sum of money for a project that appears to do more harm than good." www.capitaldaily.ca/news/hundred... #yyj #bcpoli @bettertransityyj.ca @vtru.bsky.social

Project to widen busy Galloping Goose Trail section to start in spring A four-kilometre section of the Galloping Goose Regional Trail, from the Selkirk Trestle south, will be widened with separate areas for cyclists and pedestrians.

“This is how we avoid building more multi-hundred-million-dollar [highway] interchanges... More people will turn to cycling if it’s safe the whole way” @capitalbike.ca advocacy chair @robbernhardt.bsky.social www.timescolonist.com/local-news/p... #yyj #bcpoli #CleanBC

The Canadian government under @mark-carney.bsky.social is still pouring billions into #FossilFuel subsidies . . . #cdnpoli #COP30

🗣️ Grace Malie, Tuvalu 👇

"Stop treating Indigenous leaders as 'stakeholders' and recognize us as 'rightholders' and sovereign peoples. Because symbolic recognition won't save the Amazon. It won't save the Pacific. Only structural change will!"

World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating

"The world is still on track for a catastrophic 2.6C increase in temperature as... emissions from #fossilfuels have hit a record high" www.theguardian.com/environment/... #bcpoli #cdnpoli #COP30

Canada Receives Fossil of the Day Award at COP30 Climate Summit Canada received Tuesday’s Fossil of the Day award at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil. The award, bestowed by Climate Action Network International, recognizes the country deemed to have done ...

So much for "Canada is back!".
🇨🇦 now seen as a global pariah state when it comes to climate action.
Canada Receives Fossil of the Day Award at COP30 Climate Summit www.theenergymix.com/canada-recei...

Brazil’s Climate Record: Lula Gov’t Reduces Deforestation, Boosts Oil & Gas Production As we broadcast from the United Nations climate summit in Belém, we look at Brazil’s contradictory climate policies. The Lula government has reduced deforestation in the Amazon while also approving oi...

"A few weeks before [COP30] started, a new license was granted to Petrobras in the river mouth of the Amazon basin... If it was not for the oil and gas industry and the coal, we would not be having COPs." - Ilan Zugman, our own Latin America regional head 👇

www.democracynow.org/2025/11/18/b...

The Canadian government under @mark-carney.bsky.social is still pouring billions into #FossilFuel subsidies . . . #cdnpoli #COP30

Fossil fuels are the #1 reason COPs exist, and the #1 thing we need to get rid of in order to save countless lives and prevent the worst of climate disaster.

Now, for the first time, a real roadmap for transitioning away from oil and gas is gaining support at COP30!

World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating

"The world is still on track for a catastrophic 2.6C increase in temperature as... emissions from #fossilfuels have hit a record high" www.theguardian.com/environment/... #bcpoli #cdnpoli #COP30

Rural Alberta's $70-million question: Will renewable energy revenue keep growing? Rural Alberta is experiencing something remarkable — a steady, reliable stream of revenue that doesn’t depend on oil prices, doesn’t require new taxes and keeps flowing year after year. In 2025, wind ...

Quetion for rural Alberta? support a dying industry that leaves a toxic wasteland that has no funding for cleanup, or support a growing clean responsible industry that pays its bills?

Tough one.

#Cambodia just became the 18th country to officially support the #FossilFuelTreaty! 🇰🇭

At #COP30 in Belém, Cambodia affirmed their commitment to a fast, fair and financed global transition aligned with a low-carbon, climate-resilient future.

🔗 FossilFuelTreaty.org/cambodia%EF%...

There are over 1,200 fossil fuel lobbyists at the U.N. climate summit in Brazil, more people than some entire countries have sent to the #COP30 talks.

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/17/climate_plunder

Will Canada support the Transition Away from #FossilFuels (TAFF) Roadmap? YES or NO @mark-carney.bsky.social ? #cdnpoli #COP30

It's day 9 of #COP30 and there are several new texts out overnight. Let's dive in...

Climate Action Tracker's update on Canada's climate policies is a grim read.

"Our rating of Canada’s policies and action has worsened to 'Highly Insufficient', with the latest emissions projections now higher than previous updates"

climateactiontracker.org/countries/ca...

Potential influx of workers at Ksi Lisims LNG project concerning A social justice activist from British Columbia is calling for criminal record checks for anyone hired to work on any federally approved "major project."

Gladys Radek, a B.C. activist is worried about the potential impact an influx of workers would have on the safety of women and girls in the region. She's calling for criminal record checks in the hiring of any workers.
www.aptnnews.ca?p=279933

The rising cost of living is fuelling an affordability crisis province-wide and the living wage is the amount a household needs to thrive not just survive.

Hear from and ask questions of the co-authors of this year's living wage report at a webinar Wed noon PT.
bcpolicy.ca/events/

Tax the super-rich Sign the petition to say no to billionaires and demand a wealth tax on the super-rich.

We don’t have time for a budget that enables MORE hoarding by those in tall glass towers.

We need to tax that money back down to Earth where it can be put to work taking care of people – and the planet.
@mark-carney.bsky.social

act.gp/3WWLjRm #Budget2025 #TaxTheRich

The Jeffrey Epstein cover-up is an affront to US democracy | Rebecca Solnit Democracy means a society and system in which everyone’s rights matter. Rapists count on this being untrue – and Trump is proving them right

Most rapists operate on the premise that they can not only overpower the victim physically, but can do so socially and legally. They count on a system that discounts the voices of victims and only too often cooperates in silencing them...

source: https://pulse.climate.copernicus.eu/

source: https://pulse.climate.copernicus.eu/

La Nina is here and the global cool-down is well underway (global mean sea surface temps are lowest since March 2023).
Remember it's not the individual ups & downs that matter, it's the steady warming trend, which will continue until we reach zero carbon emissions.
#Urgency #StayFocused #COP30