About Us
VTACC is a group of people based in Vancouver who are deeply concerned about global warming and want to mobilize Canadians to get engaged politically to call for immediate and deep reductions in emissions. We were motivated to take action in 2006 by the lack of political leadership among provincial and federal governments in the fight against climate change. We maintain contact with an ever growing network of supporters at the local, provincial and national level who participate in our various actions. We are completely volunteer driven and not affiliated with any political group.
The single most powerful tool for change we have in this country is citizen engagement. We find that when the public works together to demand action on climate change, the politicians listen. You can read more about our current and past actions through the links on the left.
We urge you to organize your community and start taking collective action to fight climate change. You can read more about how we got started by clicking on the "political action primer" link on the right.
Vision:
We want Canada to achieve its share of emissions reductions necessary to stabilize atmospheric greenhouse gases at levels which will avoid catastrophic and irreversible changes to our planet’s climate. There is broad consensus that this means greater than 90 percent reduction in our total emissions by 2050. This will require capping our total emissions immediately, and steep annual reductions in emissions until targets are met.
There is no time to waste if we are to meet this goal. Governments must start to introduce tough measures to reduce emissions immediately. Incremental changes are important, but fundamental, transformative changes to how we live and work are also required if we are to leave our children a planet like the one we have now.
Canada should be a world leader in addressing climate change. Given our relative affluence, expertise, and available resources, we should be a country which other jurisdictions turn to as an example of what must be done to solve this crisis
Mission:
Influence municipal, provincial and federal politicians to take meaningful action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions starting immediately by:
- Creating awareness of the climate crisis among other community members so that they become mobilized to demand action from government and corporate actors.
- Inspiring others through the example of our own community based activism to become empowered to take action in their own local communities.
- Continuing to plan and carry out our own local/riding based actions to put direct pressure on government to act.
Values
We want to ensure that the actions we undertake are creative, engaging, multi-generational, personally and socially sustainable, community building, non-partisan, and inclusive of others. We want our actions to be reflective of who we are: a group of neighbours who are taking action because we are concerned about this serious and urgent problem.