Our Work

Stabilizing the Climate

What’s at stake

The changing climate is hurting the people and places we love. Right here, right now.

Each year brings along new extreme weather events and record-breaking temperatures, made worse by fossil fuel pollution. Thousands of people in B.C. have lost their homes and communities to these disasters. It’s also hurting our health and our wallets — whether by wildfire smoke damaging our lungs, heatwaves raising our energy bills, or disasters disrupting key sectors of our economy like tourism and forestry. The list goes on.

The science is clear: to limit the extreme harms from climate pollution, we must phase out fossil fuels, protect nature and move to 100% clean energy. We can stop our planet from overheating, if we act together.

The challenge

As worsening wildfires, heatwaves and floods are unfairly harming our families and friends, B.C. has been slow to address the root of the problem.

Right now, the provincial government is rapidly expanding fossil fuel infrastructure like LNG pipelines and other fracked gas projects. This will increase pollution in B.C. and abroad, making unnatural disasters and overheating more frequent and severe.

We can still change our trajectory. Solutions exist. By working together, we can help keep our communities healthier and safer. Will you join the thousands of people speaking up?

Did you know?

70%

of Canadians are worried about climate change

619 people and 1 billion sea creatures died in the 2021 heat dome

$17B

in damages from the 2021 B.C. floods that taxpayers are on the hook for

Thankfully, solutions do exist.

Here are five things we’re advocating for that can help turn things around:

Phasing out fossil fuels and moving to 100% clean energy
Closing gaps in our climate policies, like enacting an oil and gas emissions cap
Funding for communities to transition to sustainable economic alternatives
Eliminating harmful forestry practices that make climate disasters worse
Keeping the federal North Coast Tanker Ban in place, which legally protects the Great Bear Sea from oil spills and prevents new oil pipelines from being built in northern B.C.

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Here’s what Sierra Club BC is doing to make these climate solutions a reality

Advocating for stronger climate policies

Empowering local leaders to take action with their networks

Releasing hard-hitting scientific reports

Supporting Indigenous-led solutions

Raising public awareness

Educating youth about environmental stewardship

Re-connecting people with nature

Recent progress for the climate

We helped shape key elements of B.C.’s climate framework, like the CleanBC plan, the province’s Climate Change Accountability legislation, and energy policy commitments like the promise to enact an oil and gas emissions cap.
We consistently weigh in and report on B.C.’s climate pollution trends, climate accountability reporting and climate policy announcements.
Sierra Club BC sued the B.C. government over the failure to plan for emissions reduction. In a first-of-its-kind victory for climate accountability in Canada, the court ruled that the reporting requirements of B.C.’s climate law, including the provision to report on plans to reach climate targets, are enforceable by the court.
We helped raise $1 million as part of the Pull Together initiative which funded Indigenous legal challenges against the Trans Mountain pipeline and tanker expansion project.
Sierra Club BC reached over one million people through our media stories on climate change and other environmental issues.