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As Toronto grapples with the ongoing climate crisis, a just transition to a low carbon future has become essential. Climate action must be integrated with the pursuit of equity and justice to ensure that the current and future concerns of underserved communities are central in the transition.
This project brings together community members and organizations in Toronto with academics at the University of Toronto Scarborough to collectively envision what a just transition could be in this city, and to co-produce knowledge and action strategies to pursue that vision. We have developed a steering committee of community and environmental organizations and have begun growing relationships and connections in several Scarborough neighbourhoods.
We piloted the first phase of our work by co-developing just transition listening sessions with the Malvern Family Resource Centre and the Scarbrite Arts Collective, learning together how to discover and work towards what the good life in and future of Scarborough can be. We are expanding this work to engage additional partners in just transition listening sessions to better understand the intersections of community priorities and climate actions.
Our goal is to convene a community of practice that will co-develop strategies and actions aimed at realizing the visions of urban just transitions.