From October 15 to 21, 2023, Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada (CMC) celebrated Co-op Week. This year\u2019s theme was \u201cCo-operating on Climate Action,\u201d which aimed to help co-operatives and mutuals work together to find reliable solutions to help their planet and their communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Tuesday, October 17, we launched our week of activities with a presentation on the services Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) can offer Canadian co-operatives and mutuals. From fundraising, Canadian incorporation, the importance of intellectual property, ISED demonstrated how their services can add value to co-operatives across Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the following day, a panel discussion entitled \u201cHow can co-operatives overcome barriers to climate action?\u201d took place. Carol Fraser, Consultant and Senior Analyst at Sustainability Solutions Group (SSG), moderated a panel of climate action experts from various Canadian co-operatives:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Carol Fraser guided the various panellists through an engaging discussion that allowed them to explore, among other things, the difficulties faced by their organizations when approaching climate action. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you didn\u2019t get a chance to attend the panel, you can watch to it for free on CMC\u2019s YouTube channel<\/a>! As CMC wraps up its Co-op Week celebrations, the whole team is already looking forward to highlighting co-operation across Canada again next year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From October 15 to 21, 2023, Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada (CMC) celebrated Co-op Week. This year\u2019s theme was \u201cCo-operating on Climate Action,\u201d which aimed to help co-operatives and mutuals work together to find reliable solutions to help their planet and their communities. On Tuesday, October 17, we launched our week of activities with a presentation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":242458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"The 2023 Co-op Week\u2014\u201cCo-operating on Climate Action\u201d","_seopress_titles_desc":"From October 15 to 21, 2023, Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada (CMC) celebrated Co-op Week. This year\u2019s theme was \u201cCo-operating on Climate Action.\u201d","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[251],"class_list":["post-242958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-co-op-week-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242958"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243010,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242958\/revisions\/243010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Lastly, CMC is pleased to announce that Your Neighbourhood Credit Union (YNCU)<\/a> won the \u201cYour Co-operative at the Forefront of Climate Action\u201d contest. As you may recall, co-operatives and mutuals had to submit a photo of their small or large climate action initiative. YNCU was happy to share their Carbon Cleanse initiative which took place throughout October. As for their prize, YNCU won a one-hour environmental consultation with Pascal Billard, CEO of SOL-AIR Consultants, to help evaluate their climate action plan. Congratulations to YNCU!<\/p>\n\n\n\n