2024 was the year of climate crisis: so how did it fall off the political agenda?
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was clear: to keep a habitable planet, and to ensure the survival of human civilization, greenhouse gas emissions must peak and begin to decline rapidly ‘at the latest before 2025.’ The clock is ticking, but politicians are not leaders. We look at polls and rush to distract the citizenry with shiny trinkets.
Divestment is not enough
The federal government should incentivize impact investing.
Climate risk is manageable with the tools in hand
As we end the hottest year on record, one truth is clear: the impacts of climate change are inevitable, but the extent of the damage is not.
The role of health care in mitigating the climate crisis
It’s time for our governments to bring our health societies and institutions together, and task them with creating a targeted climate action plan for the health-care sector in Canada.
The great thaw: Canada must lead climate change battle in a time of disappearing ice and snow
It is now time for Canadians to prepare for ‘cryospheric destruction’ and it is going to be a distressing experience. We must prepare for earlier, smaller, and less reliable snowmelt and, hence, less reliable river flows and lake levels that supply drinking water, irrigation water, hydropower, and cold-loving fish such as trout and salmon.
Most-lobbied Grit MPs hear push for health accountability measures, most-lobbied Tory MPs hear push for environment, trade issues
Burnout among health workers, an aging population and the COVID-19 pandemic have dramatically increased the strain on the health system in recent years, according to the president of the Canadian Medical Association.
This country urgently needs a national fire administration
Fire chiefs know that Ottawa wants to get it right when it comes to the best model to pursue, but time’s up. A national fire administration would get these fire and life safety issues out of the federal government’s blind-spot, and on to the table. The only real cost is the cost of inaction.
Oil and gas emissions cap will create new investment and jobs in Alberta
There is a path for the fossil fuel sector, including the oilsands, to decarbonize, but companies won’t do it voluntarily. It’s the government’s job to plan for our future economy. That is why additional regulation is urgently needed.
Transition to net-zero aviation needs less expensive sustainable fuels, investment certainty: sector experts
To compete with the U.S., Canada needs to take actions intended to incentivize the domestic production and use of sustainable aviation fuels, according to a roadmap released by the Canadian Council for Sustainable Aviation Fuels in June, 2023.
October environment lobby tackles energy concerns, hydrogen, and push-back on emissions cap
The Calgary Chamber of Commerce argues that increased protectionism from the U.S. after Trump’s re-election increases the need to address Canada’s competitiveness in oil and gas.
