Friday, January 8, 2016

NGO: Climate Action Network Canada(CANC)

Climate Action Network (CAN) is a worldwide network of over 950 Non-Governmental Organization (NGOs) in more than 110 countries. Climate Action Network (CANC) is founded by John Bennett in Canada in 1989s. Their goal is promoting government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels. CANC members work together to achieve this goal through information exchange and the coordinated development of NGO strategy on international, regional, and national climate issues.

Programs that they have are research, issues, new post, publications and campaigns. CANC allows everyone search any news or issues about climate in the website. They are trying to spread out the knowledge of concerning about climate. They have lots of issues such as: what is climate change? Getting off Fossil Fuels, Clean Energy, Impacts and Adaptation and Government Actions. So basically, they want everyone to build a awareness of what climate is serious. They encourage people using clean energy instead of fossil fuel to reduce pollution. On the home page, we can also find new post that shows the recent news, such as: Reflections on Paris, Meeting the Requirements of the Paris Agreement, etc. It has all the information about the actions that government takes, so it will be easier for people to go through and talk about it. Publications are also found on website, such as: Federal Policy, International Policy, Clean Energy, Tar Sands, Mitigation and Climate Justice. Tar sands database is a collection of hundreds documents gathered through various resources. They focus a lot on oil sands because it affects climate change tightly. Provincial, Federal and international policies are made to limit people's actions which may cause negative consequences to climate change. Campaign is also an important part of their programs. For example: Canada misses end of March deadline for announcing its contribution to global efforts to reduce carbon pollution. Canada, as part of CAN, should have announced its plan to contributing to global efforts to reduce carbon pollution by the end of March.


                 
                


1 comment:

  1. You introduce the NGO- CAN very well. The article makes me aware of how serious the climate problem is, the whole world are putting more and more emphasis on it. If you mention some programs which we can do in our daily life to protect the climate,it would be better. I appreciate your work:)

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