and thousands of people in a region east of Vancouver.
Carr helped found the Green Party in British Columbia in 1983, the first Green Party in North America."The weather was very predictable," she said."We had lovely, warm summers, not too hot. Cool, wet rainy winters. It was probably the iconic city of temperate climate." The council's move to lay the groundwork for a lawsuit came shortly after local environmental groups launched a"Sue Big Oil" campaign, urging local governments to file a class-action lawsuit against global oil companies.
Local governments across the country will have to spend a total of C$5.3 billion on infrastructure and other projects to account for the effects of climate change, according to a 2020 report by the Insurance Bureau of Canada and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, which represents more than 2,000 communities.
A lawsuit by Vancouver against fossil-fuel companies would be significant given the industry's importance in Canada, one of the world's top oil producers, said Kathryn Harrison, a professor of political science at the University of British Columbia and an expert on environmental policies.
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