Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise on behalf of the many residents of Saanich—Gulf Islands who raise the issue again of the climate crisis.
In this context, the petitioners ask the House of Commons to recognize that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has recognized how much the climate crisis accentuates and increases the societal divides globally, with the global south bearing much of the cost and the burden of climate events, and the urgent need for action to try to avoid more than 100 million people being pushed into poverty as a result of the industrialized world, including Canada's failure to act to pursue our Paris Agreement targets.
The petitioners call for Canada to increase our climate finance commitments towards the global south, providing more funding for adaptation and for projects that also advance a particularly targeted group within Canada and globally: Women are particularly impacted by the climate crisis.