What is KYOTOplus?

The goal of KYOTOplus is to reduce Canadian greenhouse gas emissions at least 25 per cent (from 1990 levels) by 2020 and 80 per cent by 2050.
 
In order to achieve this, the KYOTOplus campaign will…

• Sign up one million Canadians on our petition to ensure that Canada meets and exceeds the KYOTOplus targets.
• Build a network of activists to promote the petition, and pressure politicians for an Energy Revolution based on conservation and renewables.
• Sign up federal, provincial and municipal politicians on the KYOTOplus pledge.
• Create a coalition of hundreds of public interest, environmental, church and labour groups.

 
KYOTOplus kicked off in Ottawa in April 2008 when the leaders of the three opposition parties in Parliament signed our pledge to act on global warming and meet the KYOTOplus target. Prime Minister Stephen Harper refused to sign.
 
We need to act locally, and think globally. While acting to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Canada, the KYOTOplus campaign also aims to convince the federal government to support a strong post-Kyoto agreement at the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen in December 2009.
 
We must act now for the future.

On April 2, 2008 opposition party leaders Stéphane Dion, Gilles Duceppe and Jack Layton and environmental critics David McGuinty, Bernard Bigras and Nathan Cullen signed the KYOTOplus pledge.