Around the world, MCC’s partners are working to support people affected by climate change. Climate change worsens issues like access to clean water, food security, and community stability. Working for a fairer, more peaceful world means recognizing historical injustices and changing unfair systems, including those that contribute to the unequal impacts of climate change globally.
As two of the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters, Canada and the United States have a responsibility to lower their own emissions and to support countries who are facing the greatest impacts of climate change.
We believe that our countries can be better climate neighbours. We need your voice to help call for climate justice.
Talk climate, practice peace
Having conversations about climate change can feel daunting. Get equipped with MCC resources that can help you elevate the discourse.
A month of Climate Actions for Peace
Take a different climate action every day this month to learn more, engage with climate solutions, have meaningful conversations and advocate for change.
Policy recommendations
Stronger support for adaptation
We are all affected by a changing climate. Climate change is leading to loss of crops and livestock, water and food insecurity, forced migration, and reduced incomes for many families. Climate adaptation is about responding to these negative impacts, and helping communities adjust to the changes in their environment. We are asking Canada to fund more adaptation projects to help people live better, more peaceful, lives.
A fair response to climate change
Climate change affects everyone and requires action from all countries. For Canada, our role in responding to the impacts of climate change extends beyond our borders. We have a responsibility to lower our own impact on the environment, and to support people in countries that are facing higher impacts of climate change. We are asking Canada to be a better global climate neighbour by acting fairly through our domestic policy and international assistance.
Save Oak Flat from copper mining
Oak Flat, also known as Chi’chil Bildagoteel, holds great cultural and spiritual importance as ancestral land for the San Carlos Apache tribe and other nearby indigenous communities. Oak Flat is currently facing a significant threat from copper mining. Resolution Copper plans to employ a mining technique that would result in the collapse of the land, forming a massive crater measuring one mile in width and 1000 feet in depth. The proposed mining operation not only poses a threat to indigenous sacred sites, but also could severely deplete and contaminate the area's vital water resources.
Support climate resiliency for peace
Climate change has the power to both drive and exacerbate conflict. It contributes to food insecurity, economic instability, and migration, all of which increase the risk of violence. Supporting U.S. foreign assistance that helps communities adapt to climate change, build resiliency and mitigate the impacts of climate change promotes both greater wellbeing and a more peaceful world.
Responding to climate change
See how people worldwide, with the help of MCC’s partners, are taking action to respond to the impacts of climate change.
Homegrown climate action in Nepal
- Climate Change,
- Food
Churches go solar with tax credits
Urge Congress to protect clean energy tax credits- Climate Change
Farmers helping farmers in Zimbabwe
- Climate Change,
- Drought, Food
3 reasons I'm a bad vegetarian
- Climate Change
Vacas y fresas y jóvenes agricultores en Nepal
Ver ahora- Cambio climático
Cultivating peace through food security
- Climate Change,
- Food
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