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International Engagement
Canada’s Paris timeline has three layers: NDC submissions, domestic climate plans, and ongoing implementation and reporting. Through leading conversations, international convenings, and local actions, Climate Reality is committed to ensuring Canada's international agreements are implemented with equity and justice.
Civil society is stepping up!
This year's events are spread across the entire UNFCCC process, from Bonn to COP.
In a space animated by civil society from Quebec and Canada, the program includes daily panels, discussions, and debriefings to help you follow the progress of the negotiations and understand the issues at stake. This rich program, open to all, can be experienced via videoconference and occasionally in person with free registration.
UNFCC, COP, & International Negotiations
International climate negotiations are global meetings where countries sit down to decide how quickly they’ll cut the pollution that’s heating the planet, how they’ll pay for cleaner energy/infrastructure, and how they’ll support communities already being hit hard by climate impacts, especially in the Global South. Governments bring their own climate plans, argue over targets and timelines, and (in theory) walk away with agreements about who will do what, by when, and how fairly the costs and benefits will be shared.
Those deals don’t happen in a vacuum, and real progress on climate action doesn’t materialize out of thin air. A groundswell of public concern has helped secure stronger policies on clean electricity, methane, and (although slowly and insufficiently) moving away from coal. Through years of organizing by youth, Indigenous leaders, health professionals, and advocacy groups, public pressure has has been a driving force to push the Canadian federal government to commit to a net‑zero by 2050 target and pass accountability legislation that requires regular climate plan updates and progress reports, rather than vague promises with no follow‑through.
Open Letter: Civil Society Urges the Government of Canada to Participate
Meaningfully in the Santa Marta Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels
Canadian civil society organizations, including The Climate Reality Project Canada, are calling on the federal government to step up at a pivotal moment for global climate action. This open letter urges meaningful participation in the Santa Marta Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels — an unprecedented opportunity to advance a just, equitable, and coordinated global energy transition.
NDCs & ACCOUNTABILITY
NDC stands for Nationally Determined Contribution and is each country’s self-defined contribution to the global effort to limit warming to well below 2°C and pursue 1.5°C
An NDC is a country’s official climate pledge under the Paris Agreement. It sets out what that country plans to do to cut greenhouse gas emissions and, often, how it will adapt to climate impacts.
Canadian municipalities are not formal Parties to the Paris Agreement, but they are core “implementation engines” for Canada’s NDC because most emissions- and resilience-relevant decisions about land use, buildings, transport, and local infrastructure are made at the local level. In practice, their role is both to deliver concrete mitigation and adaptation on the ground and to shape, test, and refine policies that make Canada’s nationally determined targets actually achievable.
WORKSHOP-IN-A-BOX
Q: Do I have the power to influence the World Bank? A: Yes. The World Bank is the largest publicly owned financial institution. Your government may lend your taxpayer funds through the bank – or receive loans that your public funds will go to repay.
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Q: What about my privacy? A: Only include information you’re comfortable sharing publicly (name, city). If you prefer, you can send it without that information.
Q: What language should I use? A: Use your own words. Be clear and respectful and try to personalize the content of the email as you wish.
Q: Do I need to follow up? A: No – we'll follow up on the results of this action with you.
