{"id":62128,"date":"2019-11-15T11:59:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T16:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=62128"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:40","slug":"baird-blythe-mcgrath-and-plummer-3-ways-cities-can-prepare-for-climate-emergencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/11\/baird-blythe-mcgrath-and-plummer-3-ways-cities-can-prepare-for-climate-emergencies\/","title":{"rendered":"BAIRD, BLYTHE, MCGRATH and PLUMMER: 3 ways cities can prepare for climate emergencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Julia Baird, Assistant Professor; Jessica Blythe, Assistant Professor; Darby McGrath, Adjunct Professor; and Ryan Plummer, Professor, at Brock University&#8217;s Environmental Sustainability Research Centre,\u00a0had a piece <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/3-ways-cities-can-prepare-for-climate-emergencies-125536\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">published in The Conversation<\/a> on Nov. 14 about three ways cities can prepare for climate emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>They write:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Cities are on the front line of climate change. While their footprints cover a mere two per cent of the Earth\u2019s surface, they consume 78 per cent of global energy and account for over 60 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>More than 80 per cent of Canadians reside in urban areas and this trend is accelerating. Critically, a recent study found that most Canadian cities are ill-prepared to manage the impacts of climate change.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Canadians are increasingly standing up against the devastating impacts of climate change. In June 2019, the House of Commons declared a national climate emergency. In September, more than six million people around the world joined Greta Thunberg to stage a global strike for climate. And during this fall\u2019s federal election, voters across the country made every party realize that climate policy is an urgent issue for people of all ages.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/3-ways-cities-can-prepare-for-climate-emergencies-125536\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julia Baird, Assistant Professor; Jessica Blythe, Assistant Professor; Darby McGrath, Adjunct Professor; and Ryan Plummer, Professor, at Brock University&#8217;s Environmental Sustainability Research Centre,\u00a0had a piece published in The Conversation on Nov. 14 about three ways cities can prepare for climate emergencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[794,8450,2534,8451,2262],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62131,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62128\/revisions\/62131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}