The time to act is now for a better, greener future
Canada has an opportunity to meaningfully reduce emissions and show real climate leadership by banning thermal coal exports.
The future is closer than you think
Climate change is not a distant future threat. It is now, and so are the technologies to fight it.
Putting residents and community at the heart of climate action
Communities across Canada have shown that the process of transforming the places we live can come from the bottom up, with much better outcomes.
It’s time for responsible and effective climate mitigation
Governments must regulate an end to all fossil fuel expansion and a rapid wind-down of all present fossil fuel production on the best carbon budget schedule.
No space in Canada’s energy policy for methane gas
Contrary to oil and gas sector positioning, methane gas is not a benign ‘bridge’ fuel to transition from polluting fossil fuels to clean renewables.
The missing link for achieving climate-ready infrastructure is procurement
We have what it takes to promote climate-friendly innovations, boost productivity, and build a new infrastructure-based export sector—but it must start with changing our country’s public procurement policy, write Eric Bosco and Arvind Gupta.
There’s a fever raging in the ocean
Last month, it was worst off the eastern coast of North America where the sea surface temperature was as much as 13.8 Celsius higher than the 1981-2011 average for this time of year. Not only was that a record; it was an astounding leap upwards: more than double the previous record.
Canada is a laggard and soon-to-be pariah on fighting climate change: activist Bill Henderson
Re: “Canadas climate fight is full of question marks,” (The Hill Times, April 26, editorial). Much thanks to Environment Commissioner Jerry DeMarco for raising the alarm. As a longtime climate activist focused on effective climate mitigation, I have written many times on these pages that Canada was still in a climate plan to fail, and […]
What goes ‘moo’ and then explodes?
Since the rise of agriculture, humans have increased the mass of animal life on land fourfold, but wild animals now account for only four per cent of that biomass.
The choice is clear: Canada needs a hard cap on oil and gas pollution
Canada must limit and reduce oil and gas pollution if it wants to achieve its climate targets. But how that is done is equally as important as the fact that it must be done.
