Montreal Climate Summit kicks off with commitments to better protect the planet
Global News
Despite commitments, some people point out that cities like Montreal face a number of challenges to implementing policies to address the climate emergency.
According to delegates at the third annual Montreal Climate Summit, gatherings like these are good for building morale, mobilizing people and making new commitments.
“It’s a good sharing of best practices where people can take something that’s happening here and apply it there,” explains Alan DeSousa, opposition city councillor and borough mayor for Saint-Laurent.
Some of those ideas include a plan by eight Montreal universities to figure out how to measure scope three emissions and to come up with ways for each campus to adapt to climate change.
“A university campus is like a small neighbourhood,” says Cédrick Pautel, secretary general for École de technologie supérieure. “We have parks, we have buildings we have to take care of. Many of our buildings were built in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.”
He says researchers will share what they learn with the public.
Another plan, this one by the City of Montreal, is to redirect city pension fund investments towards greener ventures.
According to Marie-Andrée Mauger, City of Montreal executive committee member for ecological transition and the environment, “we will remove, within the next four years, all the fossil fuel investments in all the retirement funds of the City of Montreal.”
She adds that those investments are valued at $10 billion.
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