Climate Change
This gas has been identified by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as the largest contributor to global warming.
What is carbon dioxide (or CO2)?
This term refers to the fair distribution of the benefits and burdens of climate action and policy, with a focus on protecting vulnerable communities and reducing inequality.
What is climate justice?
This Swedish climate activist gained international recognition for her school strike for climate action, inspiring youth around the world to take action on climate change.
Who is Greta Thunberg?
The Indigenous peoples whose lands we are on.
The Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, ...
This Black woman was a leading abolitionist and women's rights activist who worked closely with the Oneida Nation and other Haudenosaunee communities.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
Climate change is causing this type of extreme weather event to become more frequent and intense in Canada.
What are heatwaves, droughts, floods, or wildfires?
This country is among the world's biggest emitters of greenhouse gases and has a long history of resisting international efforts to tackle climate change.
What is the United States (or America)?
This is the name of the youth-led organization in Canada that organized the largest climate strike in Canadian history, with over 500,000 people participating in September 2019.
What is "Fridays for Future"? (or School Strike for Climate or Youth Climate Strike)
This is the name of the agreement between the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee peoples in the Great Lakes region of Turtle Island?
What is the Dish with One Spoon agreement?
In 1969, members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) occupied this abandoned prison in San Francisco, California, which inspired the formation of the Black Panther Party's Free Breakfast Program for Children.
What is Alcatraz Island?
The percentage of Toronto's greenhouse gas emissions that come from buildings.
What is 53% (or 50%)?
This grassroots Indigenous-led movement emerged in Canada in 2012 to advocate for Indigenous rights and environmental protection.
What is Idle No More?
This Indigenous water protector and youth activist from the Wikwemikong First Nation is known for her work advocating for clean water and against pipelines.
Who is Autumn Peltier?
This Toronto neighbourhood was once home to a thriving Black community, but was largely destroyed in the 1960s and 70s as part of a controversial urban renewal program.
What is Africville?
These Black and Indigenous communities in Nova Scotia have a long history of working together and supporting each other's struggles for justice and self-determination.
Who are the African Nova Scotian and Mi'kmaq communities?
This city is particularly vulnerable to sea level rise due to climate change in Canada.
What is Vancouver (or Halifax/St. John's/Charlottetown)?
This is the name of the treaty signed by over 200 countries in 2015, committing to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
What is the Paris Agreement?
This concept from the United Nations refers to the idea that education is key to achieving sustainable development and addressing global challenges such as climate change.
What is Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)?
This book and documentary was written by a Black environmental health research and activist and highlights the environmental racism faced by Indigenous and Black communities in Nova Scotia.
What is “There’s Something in the Water”?
In 2016, these Black-led and Indigenous-led movements formed an alliance to protest against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
What is the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the Black Lives Matter movement?
According to a 2018 report, this percentage of Toronto's tree canopy is at risk due to climate change and other factors.
What is 28%?
The name of the toxic waste site in Tkaronto that has been a site of environmental injustice for decades.
What is Chemical Valley?
The number of people participating in the September 2019 strike organized by Fridays for Future Canada.
What is over 500,000?
This type of music was developed by enslaved Africans in the Americas and often incorporates call-and-response singing and rhythms inspired by the natural world.
What is the blues?
This Black woman historian and scholar wrote extensively about the relationships between Black and Indigenous peoples and their shared experiences of colonization and oppression.
Who is Angela Davis?