Green Budget Coalition Budget Recommendations

The Green Budget Coalition has developed its Recommendations for Budget 2020 addressing four themes:

1. The Green Budget Coalition urges scaled-up fiscal action to address the climate emergency, including eliminating fossil fuel subsidies and allocating major funding to building energy efficiency, transportation, community energy, international climate financing, nature-based solutions, and marine shipping, plus a number of complementary measures, including on carbon pricing, the Sustainable Finance report, and a just transition for energy sector workers.
2. The Green Budget Coalition urges continued and ongoing investment in nature conservation and biodiversity, with a focus on: protected areas on public and private lands; habitat restoration, including wetlands and grasslands; oceans; and migratory birds.
3. GBC recommendations regarding Sustainable Agriculture call for investing in agri-environmental programs, research and development, and a new facility for the National Insect Collection, to improve the agricultural sector’s sustainability, resilience and competitiveness.
4. On Toxics and Pesticides we point to the need for regulatory departments to receive sufficient resources to meet and enforce current legislative requirements for managing toxic substances, including pesticides, to protect the health of Canadians and our environment.

See the Green Budget Coalition Budget 2020 Recommendations.

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