Building a Stronger New Brunswick Response to Climate Change

Appendix B contains the text of the recent Vancouver Declaration on Clean Growth and Climate Change in which the leaders of Canada’s provinces and territories and the Prime Minister of Canada pledged to work together to achieve a pan-Canadian framework for clean growth and climate change. [...] Evidence of climate change in New Brunswick is Climate change is already evident in New Brunswick in the available from the Department of Environment form of increased temperatures, more intense precipitation and Local Government’s Climate Change Indicators and rises in sea levels. [...] Adaptation to the adverse effects change, adaptation must be an integral component of climate change is a key component of the Paris Agree- of an effective strategy to address climate change, ment and the process recently initiated by First Ministers along with mitigation.” under the Vancouver Declaration to develop a pan-Canadian framework for clean growth and climate change (Appendix – Global Le [...] The following questions supplement those contained in the preceding sections and are intended to further stimulate ideas and discussion about New Brunswick’s response to climate change: 1. What are the best ways to ensure that energy efficiency and other GHG reduction strategies will provide the highest economic benefits for the province? [...] Green economy – An economy focused on taking advantage of the opportunities presented by challenging global realities including: a) the need to reduce GHG emissions and adapt to climate change; b) resource scarcity; and c) the need to reduce the environmental impacts of production and consumption.