CORVALLIS CLIMATE ACTION ALLIANCE

We are a coalition of clubs, groups, organizations, and community members who are concerned about the climate crisis and what it means for our future. Therefore, we are taking action to educate our neighbors and call on our politicians to recognize and address this vital issue.

The 2018 IPCC report says we have less than 11 years to decrease anthropogenic carbon emissions by at least 55% and less than 26 years to reach net zero, or risk catastrophic consequences for our environment and wellbeing. We stand with scientists, students, activists, and everyone who seeks to maintain a liveable planet.

We are in a CLIMATE EMERGENCY

Our goals are to mobilize a response:

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1.  The City of Corvallis fully implements its Climate Action Plan (CAP): 

• ​hires a full time and permanent sustainability manager and further staff as needed; 
• conducts annual or biannual comprehensive greenhouse gas assessment; 
• creates an accountability feedback process to hold city staff, elected officials, and community members accountable to the outcomes of the GHG assessments; and 
• updates the current CAP to set emission reductions target to 55% of GHG by 2030 (CAP p.4), according to 2019 IPCC report and local high school students' recommendation.

2.  The City of Corvallis undertakes an emergency-level local climate mobilization response strategy:

• adopts a climate justice responsive decision making policy ordinance;
• incorporates a climate justice responsive decision making strategy as a cornerstone of its strategic operating plan, and within all of its master plans (Corvallis Comprehensive Plan updated July 2019, Strategic Operational Plan, Planning and Commission Annual Work Plan, Planning Division Work Plan, Community Visioning: Imagine Corvallis 2040, Land Use Planning, Transportation System Plan);
• creates innovative funding mechanisms to fund the City's Climate Action Plan and other strategies that support a just transition to a sustainable future, including but not limited to issuing 'green' municipal bonds, and adopting city services fees, utility franchise fees, and a Portland-style clean energy fund;
• the City Council adopts the criterion of "decreased greenhouse gas levels" as a criterion for the City Manager's annual job performance review; and accelerates the CAP website and other behavior change services for the community.​

3.  Work at the state level with other like-minded groups to promote climate action legislation, especially bills that will help us transition to 100% renewable energy, with municipal control of utilities, and electrify the transportation system.
4.  Educate and raise awareness with the public and politicians about the climate crisis, its devastating consequences, and what we can do to accelerate social, climate, and economic justice.

"For 25 years, countless people have [asked our] leaders to stop the emissions. But this clearly has not worked, since the emissions just continue to rise. So I will not ask them anything. Instead, I will ask the people of the world to realize that our political leaders have failed us, because we are facing an existential threat and there is no time to continue down this road of madness."

- GRETA THUNBERG

In August 2018, 15-year-old high school student Greta Thunberg sat in front of Swedish parliament instead of going to school, every day for three weeks to protest the lack of action on the climate crisis. Greta resolved to continue striking from school every Friday until her government made a plan to reduce carbon emissions to a level in line with the Paris Agreement, to keep global temperature increase below 2 degrees Celsius.

Her activism spread on social media with #FridaysForFuture and #ClimateStrike. Her actions inspired global movements of young people and adults. Students around the world have been walking out of school every Friday to protest climate inaction by politicians and CEOs who ignore the impending disaster to stay in power and continue making money. As Greta said, "Some people say that climate crisis is something that we all have created. But that is just another convenient lie... Some people - some companies and some decision-makers in particular - have known exactly what priceless values they are sacrificing to continue making unimaginable amounts of money."

Fridays For Future partnered with the climate activism organization 350.org to mobilize people around a Week of Action in September. This summer, we formed a coalition to address the causes and consequences of climate change. We want you to join us for a local emergency response to the climate crisis.

"What none of us can achieve alone, all of us can achieve together."

- RABBI JONATHAN SACKS

Organizations in the Alliance:

Fridays for Future

Corvallis Friends Meeting

First United Methodist Church, Environmental Care Team

Corvallis High School Green Club

Beit Am

Friends of OSU Old Growth

Cascade Pathways

Great Old Broads for Wilderness, Willamette Valley Broadband

Corvallis Sunrise Movement

Youth Climate Action Now

Benton County Democrats

Corvallis Interfaith Climate Justice Committee

Pacific Green Party, Linn-Benton Chapter

Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, Corvallis chapter

Mid-Valley Industrial Workers of the World

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Corvallis

Democratic Socialists of America, Heart of the Valley chapter

Coalition of Graduate Employees

Corvallis Co-Ho Ecovillage

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Corvallis, OR is located within the homelands of the Pinefu, Chemapho, and Luckiamute Kalapuyan peoples.  Following the Willamette Valley Treaty of 1855 (Kalapuya etc. Treaty), Kalapuya people were forcibly removed to the Grand Ronde Reservation in Western Oregon. Today, living descendants of these people are a part of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians.
We acknowledge that indigenous peoples are among the communities most threatened by climate change, and we honor their work & leadership in the fight for climate justice.