This fall, the State of Vermont is developing the plan for how our Brave Little State will address the climate crisis and what our energy future will look like. This may be our best opportunity to take meaningful action. Will our plan be effective enough to help avert runaway climate change? Who will this future benefit? Who might be left behind? The state needs to hear from us! We need to work together to ensure a People’s Climate Action Plan, not a Climate Action Plan for Corporations. Here’s how we’re getting our voices heard.
We are respectfully asking that the Vermont Climate Council develop a Just Climate Action plan that:
We ask that the Legislature passes the following in the 2022 legislative session:
We ask that the Governor and State agencies
Learn more about how we’re building power here.
Almost daily we hear of and experience more results of the climate crisis: life-threatening heat waves and wildfires in the West, severe droughts destroying farmers’ crops, flash flooding across the East coast.
The climate crisis is happening right now. We must take action immediately to stop or slow down the destruction of land and livelihoods by prioritizing people and the planet over corporate profits.
We need to move away from our dependence on an economy based on fossil fuels to one that is based on sustainable and renewable energy. A Just Transition ensures that we all benefit from that shift.
Our Just Transition campaign will build the power of ordinary people to co-create an equitable world that ensures access for all to safe housing, healthcare, transportation, energy, food, and clean air and water.
Check out this powerful collective video testimony from a Families Rise Up event in front of the State House in September 2021. With thanks to Jerome Lipani, our incredible volunteer videographer, and to all of the parents and grandparents who shared their hearts and stories about the current climate crisis and the need for a just transition.
As a 350VT movement, we are operating according to the following principles:
You and me together
What’s good for all must be good for each
Living in balance with the earth’s ecosystems
Urgent and Ongoing
We need real results and will need to continue to work in an intersectional way on, for example, safe, affordable housing, attractive communities, and health care for all.
Transformative Love
Our viable future upholds the earth, all her people, non-human kin and possibilities.