Marches were held around the world calling for action to be taken on climate change including one in Saint John.
Andrew Graham of the Council of Canadians and the National Farmers Union warns the risk of doing nothing is scary to contemplate. Even the Pentagon warns of climate change being a matter of national security with the possibility of a global catastrophe.
Prime Minister Trudeau, in Paris for the big U-N summit on climate change, says global warming would be catastrophic for Canada. Catherine Abreu of the Ecology Action Centre in Halifax says Atlantic Canada is particularly vulnerable to extreme weather caused by climate change and now is the time to act.
Abreu says Atlantic Canada has done well utilising wind power but could be doing more with solar, the price of which has dropped by 70 per cent over the last 7 years.
She would like to see full decarbonisation of the world’s energy system by 2050 while conceding it’s an ambitious goal.
