Unceded Algonquin Territory — Ottawa, ON (April 29, 2024) — Nature Canada’s annual Nature on the Hill occasion is connecting nature teams from throughout Canada with Members of Parliament and senior ministers to push for whole-of-government assist for a Nationwide Biodiversity Technique and a Nature Accountability Act that may give the nation the instruments and sources to satisfy the federal government’s formidable biodiversity targets.
Dozens of conferences, each digital and in-person, are lined up. Conferences embody MPs from all the events in parliament in addition to high-level conferences with the next Ministers’ workplaces:
- Surroundings and Local weather Change Canada
- Fisheries, Oceans, and the Canadian Coast Guard
- Parks Canada
- The Privy Council Workplace
- The Prime Minister’s Workplace
“Everybody taking part on this yr’s Nature on the Hill is answering our name at a important second,” says Emily McMillan, Govt Director at Nature Canada. “Nature isn’t a partisan subject – however halting and reversing nature loss is a Canadian precedence and we’re right here to show that the political will is right here to get it executed.”
Nature on the Hill is an annual occasion the place Nature Canada convenes its Nature Community companions in Ottawa to satisfy with MPs, Senators and Ministers to share their love and concern for nature and make sure that parliamentarians and federal officers ship on Canada’s daring guarantees to guard and restore nature.
Along with this week’s conferences, Nature Canada has mobilized 1000’s of Canadians to induce the federal authorities to comply with by way of on its World Biodiversity Framework (GBF). Supporters throughout the nation are calling on their very own MPs to ship:
- A powerful Nationwide Biodiversity Technique that’s enforceable, equitable, and fully-funded.
- A Nature Accountability Act to make sure that the Technique targets are met.
The taking part MPs embody members from all events and all areas of Canada. The conferences will happen on April 30 and Could 1, 2024. The character teams collaborating signify a variety of pursuits, from watershed alliances to birders to pals of native parks.
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