12:58:11 From Dave Dougherty to Everyone: [Link to the C40 Centre. Ed.] https://www.c40.org/about-c40/ 13:40:18 From William Rees to Everyone: Carbon & GHG emissions generally are growing, global society is still 80% fossil fuel dependent. By what measures can the world reduce FF use in 8 years. 13:41:49 From Phil Reilly to Everyone: I have a question about whether municipal have capabilities to force electrification of new-build subdivision. 13:42:29 From William Rees to Everyone: BTW, many climate scientists, including Andrew Weaver and James Hansen, argue there is no possibility of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and little of limiting it to 2 degrees Celsius. 13:44:15 From Raymond Leury to Everyone: Ottawa should be on that list [of cities in the C40]! 13:51:52 From Peter Bulkowski to Everyone: "The voices of the mayors are powerful." Okay. For cities in the first world, or at least Canada & the USA, housing has become prohibitively expensive. If people, especially younger people, cannot afford housing, then this is not sustainable. The cities (and thus the mayors) have failed to make cities affordable, so why should we entrust the mayors with any significant issue without impoverishing most of the citizens? 13:57:26 From Peter Bulkowski to Everyone: Which cities have put their climate plans to the citizens in a plebiscite? 13:58:09 From William Rees to Everyone: How many of the C40 cities have plans in place that aim to reduce per capita consumption so that their citizens would be living within global carrying capacity or would be aligned with "one-planet living"? 14:01:48 From Raymond Leury to Everyone: Unfortunately, Premier Ford has put us on a path that will triple our GHG emissions from the grid by 2030. 14:02:11 From Raymond Leury to Everyone: We are going backwards :( 14:03:01 From Mary Hegan to Everyone: Question: Role of citizens within City communities and neighbourhood. How important? Examples of neighbourhood climate mitigation & adaptation Plans? 14:03:04 From Devon Cantwell-Chavez to Everyone: One thing I’m curious about is what support is being provided to cities who don’t own their utilities to reduce energy emissions. 14:03:54 From Herbert Girardet to Everyone: Does urbanisation itself pose a systemic problem? In developing countries urbanisation leads to a three- to fourfold increase in per capita resource consumption. Urbanisation and ever greater long-distance eco-footprints have been going hand in hand. The deforestation in the Amazon, for instance, is directly linked to increased meat demand in Chinese megacities. 14:05:01 From Mary Hegan to Everyone: What is the role of citizens within communities and neighbourhoods for Cities to meet in Race to Zero Plans? Canada context? 14:05:16 From Mike Nickerson to Everyone: Is there any discussion of non-material actions? Like turning consumer culture around? Less obsolescence & less waste. Perhaps encouraging non-material pass times? 14:09:09 From Mary Hegan to Everyone: Where are cities including strong nature-based solutions within their total Climate Plans? I seek references of City projects. 14:10:09 From John Meyer to Everyone: Question: The most powerful groups in Canada got their power and money from population growth--developers, speculators, banks, and media corporations. How can their power be overcome to get a no-growth message into the national conversation? 14:10:47 From John Hollins to Everyone: What is Toronto doing to enable citizens to understand the issue and act effectively in communities and the whole city? 14:20:35 From William Rees to Everyone: What would Toronto's emissions look like if the carbon embodied in all goods and services imported from China and elsewhere we included (as they should be) in the local carbon budget? 14:21:07 From Mike Nickerson to Everyone: Good to look at consumer goods! 14:23:06 From John Meyer to Everyone: I looked at this years ago and I calculated that Canada's emissions would go up 8% or so if we brought manufacturing home, but that would also include a reduction in oil exports which now make up 30% or so of our emissions. Toronto, being a huge consumer but low manufacturer of most things, then GTA emissions would go up tremendously IMHO. 14:27:06 From zack jacobson to Everyone: Question: can city-wide climate improvements scale up to whole atmosphere and whole ocean? 14:27:40 From John Meyer to Everyone: Question: Impact of mandating small Smart Car or smaller EV vehicles at $12,000 or so price point in city boundaries vs expensive transit infrastructure. 14:35:03 From John Hollins to Everyone: I live in Ottawa. Not C40. How to change? 14:46:50 From Dave Dougherty to Everyone: [The Toronto Green Standard was mentioned. Here is a link to it. Ed.] https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/planning-development/official-plan-guidelines/toronto-green-standard/ 14:49:52 From Jon Legg to Everyone: I can quickly tell David Miller and all participants why the present system of political donations is biased in favour of developers over community associations. 15:00:07 From David Miller to Everyone: https://www.c40knowledgehub.org/s/?language=en_US 15:02:08 From Raymond Leury to Everyone: Ottawa has a fairly good plan. Like I said earlier, the problem is that it needs funding. Funding which BTW would largely be repaid through savings over the next 20 years. See https://ottawa.ca/en/living-ottawa/environment-conservation-and-climate/climate-change-and-energy/energy-evolution 15:02:21 From Jon Legg to Everyone: Two arguments why developers can get in and see City Councillors when community associations cannot: giving $ to councillors do NOT mean that one can buy the vote of the councillor, but a developer giving $ to a councillor guarantees that the developer CAN GET IN to make his/her arguments in favour of a building proposal, whereas a community association HAS NO REAL ARGUMENT TO GET IN TO SEE ANY OTHER councillor that his own. OTHER argument: Each person can give $750, but CEOs can give ANOTHER $750. 15:04:48 From Raymond Leury to Everyone: @Jon, the sad reality is that developers get around contribution limits by getting their children and other family members to each provide the maximum donation....and the counselors know this. 15:05:10 From Devon Cantwell-Chavez to Everyone: Madison, Wisconsin, is doing the same to their energy provider! 15:07:27 From Raymond Leury to Everyone: Switching to EVs actually reduces energy consumption by 75-80%. 15:09:15 From Barb P's chat & voice to Everyone: Essentiality. 15:11:39 From David Miller to Everyone: MORE FUN, LESS STUFF! 15:20:19 From Mike Nickerson to Everyone: We weren’t consulted about giving up culture to become consumers. 15:34:00 From Raymond Leury to Everyone: EVs require 75-80% less energy. We have excess electricity capacity at the moment that would allow us to electrify 30% of the fleet.