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Write to your Councillor urging to support divestment from fossil fuels!

Price Carbon Now! recognizes that combating climate change requires a multi-pronged strategy that includes carbon pricing, regulations, divestment, etc.

So, Price Carbon Now! is working alongside 350 Ottawa to appeal to City of Ottawa Councillors to urge the city to divest from fossil fuels. We have set up an online letter that you can send to your Councillor. To learn more about divestment and the campaign in Ottawa, please visit this page.

Please send a message to your Councillor urging him/her to support freezing any new investment in the 200 largest publicly traded fossil fuel companies, and to fully divest from these same companies over the next five years. To send the message to your Councillor, please choose your ward/Councillor from the dropdown menu below. If you don't know your ward, you can find it using your address on this webpage.

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Global warming and climate change are undeniably the defining issues of our time. To avoid the catastrophic effects of global warming beyond 2 degrees Celsius, experts believe a large portion of the world’s fossil fuel reserves, including 80% of coal and 50% of gas reserves, must be left in the ground.

One of the tools to achieve this goal is divestment from fossil fuels. Beyond the environmental, humanitarian and ethical reasons for divestment, there is a financial one too: As governments around the world start to regulate carbon emissions through carbon pricing or regulations, and renewable energy continues to attract more investment and becomes cheaper, financial assets in fossil fuel companies will become stranded. 

Several educational institutions, faith-based and other organizations, for-profit companies, pension funds, philanthropic foundations and governments have committed to divest from fossil fuels. These include over 50 cities around the world. Notable examples include San Francisco, California; Seattle, Washington; Portland, Oregon; Oxford, United Kingdom; Boxtel, Netherlands; Moreland, Australia; and Dunedin, New Zealand. Within Canada, the Victoria City Council passed a responsible investing motion (emphasizing fossil fuel divestment) and requested that the provincial body controlling pension funds do the same.

The City of Ottawa, too, should divest from fossil fuels. In addition to the environmental, ethical and financial reasons, Canada’s national capital has a duty to shape public debate on energy policy and climate change. Divestment from fossil fuels would send a powerful message to the industry and the nation. Furthermore, adopting an investment strategy that encourages the development of renewable energy and sustainable technologies could be an important part of our City’s commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. 

I am writing to urge you to encourage the City of Ottawa to start divesting from fossil fuels. As part of its divestment, the City should freeze any new investment in the 200 largest publicly traded fossil fuel companies, and fully divest from them over the next five years. These steps should be included as an action within the City’s Air Quality and Climate Change Management Plan. 

I hope you will consider urging the city to divest from fossil fuels. 

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Yours sincerely,

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