{"id":24650,"date":"2019-08-21T17:19:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T21:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/?p=24650"},"modified":"2019-11-06T03:27:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:27:19","slug":"mayor-valerie-plante-is-appointed-as-the-icleis-global-ambassador-for-local-biodiversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/press-release\/24650\/mayor-valerie-plante-is-appointed-as-the-icleis-global-ambassador-for-local-biodiversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Val\u00e9rie Plante is appointed as the ICLEI\u2019s Global Ambassador for Local Biodiversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MONTREAL- In response to the announcement of the Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI) appointment of Mayor Val\u00e9rie Plante as the ICLEI\u2019s Global Ambassador for Local Biodiversity, Greenpeace Canada Nature and Food Campaigner, Marie-Jos\u00e9e Beliveau said:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHaving Mayor Val\u00e9rie Plante as the ICLEI\u2019s Global Ambassador for Local Biodiversity is certainly good news. We hope it will put conservation and biodiversity at the heart of development decisions. Montreal has great potential to inspire other cities nationally and internationally to act in the face of the current climate crisis. Planting trees, and taking the necessary measures to ensure that food systems in cities support biodiversity, social justice, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and climate resilience, are all parts of solutions to protect nature and urban areas.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-30-<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>For more information, contact:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mojgan Mohammad, Communications Officer, Greenpeace Canada<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:mojgan.mohammad@greenpeace.org\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mojgan.mohammad@greenpeace.org<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; +1 514 400-3313<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 21st, 2019 MONTREAL- In response to the announcement of the Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI) appointment of Mayor Val\u00e9rie Plante as the ICLEI\u2019s Global Ambassador for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":7094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23,26,27],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-24650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature","tag-climate","tag-food","tag-forests","p4-page-type-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24650"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24677,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24650\/revisions\/24677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24650"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=24650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}