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Resolution Demonstration Day for the Enviroment

Whereas:

“If the world doesn’t change course by 2020, we risk missing the point where we can avoid runaway climate change, with disastrous consequences for people and all the natural systems that sustain us.” ANTONIO GUTERRES, UN SECRETARY GENERAL 
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Whereas:

The serious consequences of climate change in Quebec are increasing rapidly (floods, droughts, heat-related deaths, disease, weakened infrastructure, loss of biodiversity, etc.);

  • A greater than two-degree increase in global temperature carries a serious risk that climate change will escalate exponentially;
  • The consequences of uncontrolled climate change are a real danger to the survival of our children and their children (food shortages, escalating conflicts, increased mortality, etc.);
  • The negligence and inaction of governments in this regard can be considered a failure to fulfil their primary mission and a violation of human rights;
  • The exceptional mobilization of the various players in Quebec society around the climate crisis;
  • The climate deficit bill that was proposed to the Legault government and that it refuses to pass;
  • The Trudeau government’s repeated investment in the oil industry;
  • The Trudeau government’s uninhibited adoption of the GHG emission targets of the Conservative government that preceded it, knowing that they are clearly insufficient to comply with the Paris Agreement;
  • The lack of a credible plan to achieve those objectives;

Be it resolved:

1. That the union officially support the three demands of the La Planète s'invite au Parlement movement, that is, ask the three levels of government to:

1- Ensure, through regular awareness campaigns, that the public is fully informed of the seriousness of climate change and the collapse of biodiversity;

2- Adopt a climate law that forces the achievement of the GHG targets recommended by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees (the IPCC estimates that a reduction in net CO2 emissions of 50% by 2030 and 100% by 2050, along with a significant reduction in other GHGs, would give the world a 66% chance of achieving that objective);

3- Prohibit all new hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation projects and put an end to all direct and indirect subsidies on fossil fuels.

2. That the Institute contribute to the financing and implementation of a media campaign on the climate emergency and loss of biodiversity.

3. That the union hold a one-day demonstration on September 27, 2019, as part of the Earth Strike movement. The demonstration would be conditional on 5,000 Quebec workers from at least 10 local unions voting in favour of it.