Bill 6 explained in plain English
Climate Change Awareness Act, 2010
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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The Climate Change Awareness Act, 2010, establishes April 21st as Climate Change Awareness Day and mandates the creation and distribution of an annual climate change report card to students in Ontario schools.
This bill, known as the Climate Change Awareness Act, 2010, would establish April 21st each year as Climate Change Awareness Day in Ontario. It also requires the Minister of the Environment to prepare an annual report card on the effects of climate change. This report card would need to include specific measures of climate change impacts and greenhouse gas production, and would be distributed to students in grades 5 through 12 in Ontario schools to support educational activities.
- Designates April 21st of each year as Climate Change Awareness Day.
- Requires the Minister of the Environment to prepare an annual report card on climate change.
- Specifies the content of the annual climate change report card, including greenhouse gas production, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, Arctic sea ice cover, species at risk, and polar bear populations.
- Requires the Minister of the Environment to submit the report card to the Minister of Education.
- Requires the Minister of Education to ensure the report card is distributed to students in grades 5 through 12 in all Ontario schools.
- Mandates that the first report card be prepared in 2011.
- Students in grades 5 through 12 in Ontario schools
- Minister of the Environment
- Minister of Education
- Schools in Ontario (public and private)
- Obligation of the Minister of the Environment to prepare an annual climate change report card.
- Obligation of the Minister of Education to distribute the report card to students.
- Right of students to receive the annual climate change report card.
- April 21st is designated as Climate Change Awareness Day annually.
- The first report card is to be prepared in 2011.
- The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The bill states that the Minister of the Environment may include 'Other measures' in the report card, but does not specify what these might be.
- The bill does not specify the exact format or method of distribution for the report card.
- The bill states that certain information in the report card should be included 'where available,' indicating that data might not always be accessible.
This bill enacts the Climate Change Awareness Act, 2010.
Amends the definition of 'school' by referencing the Education Act.
Source: Section 1
References the Endangered Species Act, 2007, for the definition of 'Species at Risk in Ontario List'.
Source: Section 3(2) paragraph 5
References the federal Species at Risk Act for the definition of 'List of Wildlife Species at Risk'.
Source: Section 3(2) paragraph 6
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