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A Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy
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As the Government of Canada continues to protect and support Canadians through the COVID-19 pandemic, it is also important that the country look to the future. Canadians want to see a growing middle class where no one is left behind. They want a future where their kids and grandkids have access to clean air and water. That future is within reach. Collectively, Canada needs to accelerate climate action to get there. A Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy is Canada's plan to build a better future. This plan builds on the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change. It continues down the path that Canadians, their governments, and businesses have been setting. This plan is a cornerstone of the government's commitment in the 2020 Speech from the Throne to create over one million jobs, restoring employment to pre-pandemic levels. The plan includes 64 new measures and $15 billion in investments in addition to the Canada Infrastructure Bank's $6 billion for clean infrastructure announced this fall as part of its growth plan. A Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy will make life more affordable for households. It will make Canadian communities more livable. And it will, at every turn, focus on workers and their careers in a fair and just transition to a stronger and cleaner economy. The plan will do this through five pillars
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healthy_environment_healthy_economy_plan.pdf
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yul:1156044
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Green Bargaining for CUPE Locals
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CUPE has a long history of climate change related educational materials, including: Healthy, Clean & GREEN: A Workers' Action Guide to a Greener Workplace (2015), which encourages workplace behaviours such as waste reduction, environmental committees and environmental audits; How to form a workplace environment Committee ; and an online, interactive Eco-audit tool to workers score their workplace behaviours related to energy conservation, recycling, water use, cleaning products, transportation, and workplace meetings. A very early document was the CUPE Green Bargaining Guide , published in 2008 and which provided examples of collective agreement language on many issues, including conservation, commuting, and establishing an environment committee
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ONLINE_Green_Bargaining_Guide-0.pdf
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yul:1156040
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Towards a Progressive Labor Vision for Climate Justice and Energy Transition in the Time of Trump
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This memorandum proposes an analysis and provisional framework around which to construct an ambitious and effective agenda for progressive labor to respond to the converging environmental crises, and to pursue a rapid, inclusive approach to energy transition and social justice. Such an agenda could serve to bring a much-needed independent union voice to policy and programmatic debates on climate change and energy within Our Revolution spaces and processes. Labor's voice in these debates frequently echoes the large energy companies on one side, or the large mainstream environmental NGOs on the other.
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Towards-a-Progressive-Vision-TUED.pdf
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yul:1156039
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Healthy Clean and Green: A Worker's Action Guide to a Greener Workplace
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CUPE members have a workplace environmental guide at their fingertips. The booklet – entitled Healthy, Clean & GREEN: A Workers' Action Guide to a Greener Workplace – shows workers what steps they can take to make their workplaces environmentally sustainable. Climate change, waste reduction and environmental rights are some of the issues covered in the publication. Action is at the centre of Healthy, Clean and GREEN. The booklet spells out what CUPE members can do at work and in their communities to tackle some of the pressing environmental problems we face.
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green_booklet_0.pdf
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yul:1156027
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The Big Cleanup: How enforcing the Polluter Pay principle can unlock Alberta's next great jobs boom
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Using the AER's own data, our report reveals that 4 out of 5 unreclaimed oil and gas wells in Alberta are already past their economic limit, the "best before date" where they still have enough future revenue coming out of the ground to fund their own cleanup. We explore the story of one of them—drilled more than 30 years ago on our co-author's family's land—to demonstrate how companies are able to profit for decades without setting aside anything for cleanup. Digging deeper, we reveal that an astonishing 49% of oil and gas companies licensed by the regulator are classified as insolvent through the Licensee Liability Rating system.
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6ca287_2ffe90ca7c354d3eac43b5f141b6ec8a.pdf
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yul:1156022
