{"id":679,"date":"2022-10-21T15:06:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T19:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/?p=679"},"modified":"2025-07-18T10:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T14:07:13","slug":"alexandra-mallett-talks-to-the-capital-current-about-climate-change-and-the-municipal-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/2022\/alexandra-mallett-talks-to-the-capital-current-about-climate-change-and-the-municipal-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexandra Mallett Talks to the Capital Current about Climate Change and the Municipal Election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Alexandra Mallett Talks to the Capital Current about Climate Change and the Municipal Election\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<h3 id=\"change-is-in-the-municipal-governments-hands\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Change is in the municipal government\u2019s hands<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sppa\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alexandra-Mallett-1-400x283.jpg\" alt=\"Alexandra Mallett\" class=\"wp-image-29873\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sppa\/alexandra-mallett\/\">Dr. Alexandra Mallett<\/a>, an associate professor at Carleton University with a focus on sustainable energy and climate policy, emphasized the power municipal governments hold in combating climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe first thing that needs to happen is [a] common vision, and that\u2019s what you can do with your city councillors,\u201d Mallett said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey can start advocating on your behalf with respect to the province and the federal level so that you can actually work together and leverage funds from different levels of government.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mallett has been involved in climate negotiations but said that she has seen the most change made through municipal actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe can all do our individual part, but at the end of the day in order to make corporations change, governments change et cetera, we need to see action happening,\u201d Mallett said. \u201cAnd where I have seen it a lot is at the municipal level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalcurrent.ca\/climate-change-is-top-of-mind-for-many-voters-in-this-municipal-election-%EF%BF%BC\/\">Read full story in the Capital Current&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Change is in the municipal government\u2019s hands Dr. Alexandra Mallett, an associate professor at Carleton University with a focus on sustainable energy and climate policy, emphasized the power municipal governments hold in combating climate change. \u201cThe first thing that needs to happen is [a] common vision, and that\u2019s what you can do with your city 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