Montreal is going carbon neutral by 2050. But some climate change studies suggest the global temperature will reach 1.5ºC by 2040 or even as soon as 2030 – making these efforts too late. Once the planet meets 1.5ºC, the world will go into a zone of dangerous climate change. Global warming is predicted to reach 4°C by the end of the century.
The City of Montreal told Local 514 that, “Achieving carbon neutrality requires balancing the sources and sinks of GHG emissions. For this balance to be possible, a rapid and unprecedented transition is needed in all sectors of the economy: [including] transportation, buildings, industry, energy, waste materials, agriculture, forestry, and land use.”
So what does this plan look like? Local 514 investigates…
