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Symposium themes

Assessing Environmental Racism: Understanding approaches to the measurement of environmental racism, the tools, data, framings and techniques which may play a role in assessing environmental racism (both quantitative and qualitative), how environmental racism might be measured within the federal context, how do communities go about measurement?

Preventing Environmental Racism: Discussions around success stories already taking place across civil society and, in line with the potential measures outlined within PMB C-226, consideration around possible amendments to federal laws, policies and programs and involvement of community groups in environmental policy making.

Addressing Environmental Racism: When environmental racism and injustice occur, what does a just response look like? Are there alternatives to traditional criminal or compliance-based processes such as restorative justice, and/or community-led resolution processes? What is the federal government’s role in responding to environmental racism and are there existing federal mechanisms which may present opportunities?

Advancing Environmental Justice – How Does Change Happen: What it means to advance EJ at a national level vs community level, the distinct qualities which will be meaningful within the Canadian context, and how different communities or demographics might articulate advancement. Discussions around next steps from a civil society perspective, and Youth-specific perspectives on advancing environmental justice.

Which of the above-mentioned Symposiums Theme(s) do your efforts related to environmental racism and justice most align with?

Assessing Environmental Racism

Preventing Environmental Racism

Addressing Environmental Racism

Advancing Environmental Justice – How Does Change Happen

Please indicate any experience or expertise on environmental racism and justice topics that you would bring to the Symposium as a participant. Feel free to include relevant work experience, activism, and academic background, if applicable:

Gender-based Analysis Plus (GBA Plus)

GBA Plus is an analytical tool used to support the development of responsive and inclusive policies, programs, and other initiatives in pursuit of equitable policymaking and delivery.

In the context of the Symposium, a GBA Plus approach will be taken in assessing applications to aim for a diversity of perspectives and lived experiences.

Do you self-identify as part of an equity-deserving, equity-seeking/under-represented, under-served, or marginalized group*? This could be on the basis of factors such as race, ethnicity, sex, gender, ability, age, religion, socioeconomic status, and geographic location.

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*In the context of equity, diversity, accessibility and inclusion, terminology is continuously evolving and dependent on an individual’s personal perspectives and lived experience. Several commonly used terms have been included here in an effort to capture this.

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