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Video of McGill University Climate & Sustainability Strategy 2020-2025 Long-Term Targets Platinum Sustainability Rating Maintaining our Platinum sustainability rating means that McGill must continue to embed sustainability in all areas and at every level. Zero-Waste by 2035 Becoming zero-waste means that McGill must reach a diversion rate of 90%. Carbon Neutrality by 2040 Achieving carbon ...
- A New Long-Term Target
- The Eight Categories and Flagship Actions
- Consultation Process
With the release of the Strategy, McGill has committed to becoming zero-waste by 2035. This third long-term target set out in the new Strategy came to fruition during the targeted and community consultations, exemplifying the community’s ambition to ramp up the University’s sustainability efforts, and ensuring alignment with the latest in climate s...
A vast, community-wide consultation process led to the development of eight new categories, each of which are headlined by a flagship action. Amongst the 62 actions highlighted in the Strategy, the eight flagship actions stand out due to their level of ambition, potential to mobilize various stakeholders, and contribution to the category objective ...
From January 2020 onwards, the Office of Sustainability led an extensive consultation process to engage with the McGill community in the planning and drafting of the Strategy. Beginning with targeted consultations involving subject matter experts in January and February, and moving to public consultations in March through to the fall – which pivote...
Jun 5, 2024 · Two McGill-led climate change mitigation projects receive funding from the New Frontiers in Research Fund’s (NFRF) International Joint Initiative for Research in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Competition. Thirteen researchers receive grants through the NFRF Exploration Competition. Today, the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of National Revenue, on behalf of the Honourable ...
Nov 9, 2021 · The Annual Report, published in October, covers the period of September 2020 to August 2021. It highlights the work of McGillians across the eight categories covered by the Climate & Sustainability Strategy 2020-2025: Research & Education, Buildings & Utilities, Waste Management, Travel & Commuting, Food Systems, Procurement, Landscapes & Ecosystems, and Community Building, in addition to the ...
Jun 3, 2024 · Exploration grants support research with a range of impacts – economic, scientific, artistic, cultural, social, technological, environmental or health-related. “McGill University thanks the Government of Canada for this important investment in world-leading climate change mitigation and interdisciplinary research programs,” says Martha ...
Feb 9, 2022 · The report provides a comprehensive assessment of the latest research on how climate-related hazards, including extreme heat events, wildfires, floods, and ice storms are affecting our health and wellbeing. This reports also documents the increasing risks from infectious diseases and from climate impacts on food and water safety and security.
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THE HEALTH COSTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE: o Canada can adat reare and save lives V INTRODUCTION Climate change is not just an environmental and economic threat, it is also a threat to public health. Climate change will make existing health inequities . worse and increase costs to Canada’s health system and economy—unless governments work together
