I’m writing to share some very exciting news – the launch of a new 5-year initiative, the Climate Emergency Unit.
The response to my book A Good War has been very enthusiastic and gratifying. I’ve been giving about three book-related talks a week since the book was released in early September 2020. The book’s message about the urgent need for a new, more ambitious approach to tackling the climate crisis, and its hopeful example of what wartime-scale action can actually look like, seems to have landed just when people were ready for it.
Like many of you, I’m now keen to spend the next few decisive years singularly focused on advancing the emergency ideas outlined in A Good War.
Realizing I needed a base and a team with which to do this work, I partnered with the David Suzuki Institute, whose board kindly gave me an institutional home from which to launch this new endeavor. (The DSI is a separate entity from the David Suzuki Foundation; it’s a non-profit, but not a registered charity, which means the Climate Emergency Unit is able to be politically engaged in a way that a charity cannot.)
And I’m thrilled to share that I’ve now been joined by a dynamite team. Together, we’re intent on pressing for implementation of true climate emergency policies across Canada. We will encourage governments at all levels and all major institutions to up their level of climate action ambition.
I invite you to check out the Climate Emergency Unit’s website here to learn more about us, our plans and our team.
The CEU will be producing a regular e-newsletter once a month. Our e-newsletter will share news, updates and campaign ideas from the Climate Emergency Unit. We’ll invite you to take action in various ways on this task of our lives.
If you’d like to receive the CEU newsletter, I invite you to sign-up here: https://www.climateemergencyunit.ca/mailing-list
These next few years are all about speed and scale, as we seek to rapidly decarbonize and electrify our society and economy while enhancing social justice and equity. We all need to press our governments to take wartime-scale actions on the climate crisis. Join us!