TAKE ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE. Make the pledge to act on climate change.  We will support you.

FRIDAYS FOR FUTURE – in Sudbury and all around the world, kids are asking adults to act on climate change to protect their future.  Youth -  you can add your voices.  Adults - you can answer that call. 

Big Fridays for Future Youth Rally, Thursday, September 26, 11-1.  Schools are invited to send classes to the event, and all citizens are welcome to attend in solidarity of the youth asking for climate action to protect their, and our, future.  Please consider inviting your school. Download a letter for teachers in English or French with more information for schools to register. Students-you can also personalize this letter, written by other Sudbury Fridays for Future youth for their teacher and principal. 
Citizens, please sign up below.

Global Climate Event: Friday, September 20. In school, do any climate action.  OR, students, if your school is not participating, hold your own mini-climate school strike or other climate action.
Be sure to register your school’s action, or your personal action at https://fridaysforfuture.ca/register-event/

Youth around the world are also asking adults to step up alongside youth and participate in a Global Climate Strike September 20-27.  There are many ways adults can participate depending on their circumstances and workplaces.  Find more info in this flyer, and share with others.

Traditional Fridays for Future School Strikes: Friday, September 6, 13, 27, and Friday, October 4, 11, 18 & 25.  Brady & Paris, 2 pm to 4 pm – school strike.  Youth strikers and supporters are welcome to attend.

Lots of important Fridays for Future events happening in September! Spread the word and share the poster.

VOTE FOR THE CLIMATE OCTOBER 21: Get informed and make your vote count in the federal election.  Attend our local ‘100 Debates on the Environment’ event, the evening of Thursday, October 3, St. Andrews Place (111 Larch) to hear your local candidates and ask them questions.  Town Hall for Sudbury (5:30pm) and Nickel Belt (7:30pm) federal candidates.  Get informed and vote for the climate, and for other issues important to you.  See the FB event.

MAY 28, 2019, GREATER SUDBURY UNANIMOUSLY DECLARED A CLIMATE EMERGENCY, MADE CLIMATE ACTION A PRIORITY AND SET A PATH FOR A PLAN TO REDUCE OUR CARBON EMISSIONS TO NET ZERO BY 2050, AND TO PROTECT OUR COMMUNITY FROM CLIMATE IMPACTS.  Thank you to Council and to all who helped make this happen.  As a City and as a community, we now begin the work in earnest to reduce our carbon emissions and prepare for climate impacts.  Stay connected so that we can all contribute by continuing to be a voice for climate action and/or taking personal action.

You can still sign the climate action petition at reThink Green (176 Larch, 3rd floor, stair access).  You can also print a petition to collect signatures, and return them to reThink Green.  Download the petition to print in English or French.

GET INFORMED AND INSPIRED TO ACT:  see the Sudbury presentation slides from Environment Commissioner Dianne Saxes’s talk; listen to 15-year-old Greta Thunberg’s address to the UN climate negotiations, COP-24 in Poland in December.  Read our Climate Cafe discussion booklet here.

ATTEND OR HOST A CLIMATE CAFE:  Connect with people in your area and learn and do some simple but meaningful local actions which can help reduce your carbon footprint and help build political will for action on climate change. All ages welcome.  
Watch for more Climate Cafes to come.

Interested in holding a private climate cafe with friends or family, or a climate cafe at your local gathering place, workplace, or place of worship?  Contact us, or sign up below.

You can read the Climate Cafe discussion booklet here.  Contact us for resources to facilitate a climate cafe, whether an informal gathering with friends and family, or a larger event.

SPEAK UP FOR ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE:  To send an e-mail to all three levels of government asking them to take the necessary action on climate change to protect our future, copy paste these e-mail lists:

Sudbury - MP Paul Lefebvre, MPP Jamie West, Mayor Brian Bigger and Council
Paul.Lefebvre@parl.gc.ca; Jwest-CO@ndp.on.ca; brian.bigger@greatersudbury.ca; mayor@greatersudbury.ca; mark.signoretti@greatersudbury.ca; michael.vagnini@greatersudbury.ca; gerry.montpellier@greatersudbury.ca;  geoff.mccausland@greatersudbury.ca; robert.kirwan@greatersudbury.ca; rene.lapierre@greatersudbury.ca; mike.jakubo@greatersudbury.ca; al.sizer@greatersudbury.ca; deb.mcintosh@greatersudbury.ca;  fern.cormier@greatersudbury.ca; bill.leduc@greatersudbury.ca; joscelyne.landry-altmann@greatersudbury.ca

Nickel Belt - MP Marc Serré, MPP France Gélinas, Mayor Brian Bigger and Council
Marc.Serre@parl.gc.ca; fgelinas-qp@ndp.on.ca; brian.bigger@greatersudbury.ca; mayor@greatersudbury.ca; mark.signoretti@greatersudbury.ca; michael.vagnini@greatersudbury.ca; gerry.montpellier@greatersudbury.ca;  geoff.mccausland@greatersudbury.ca; robert.kirwan@greatersudbury.ca; rene.lapierre@greatersudbury.ca; mike.jakubo@greatersudbury.ca; al.sizer@greatersudbury.ca; deb.mcintosh@greatersudbury.ca;  fern.cormier@greatersudbury.ca; bill.leduc@greatersudbury.ca; joscelyne.landry-altmann@greatersudbury.ca