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.
A focus on water can lessen climate change’s burn
Canadians need water infrastructure to protect us in the face of mounting risks of flooding, drought, extreme heat, and wildfires.
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.
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.
Ready! Fire! Aim!: Cost-benefit analyses should determine strength of emissions control measures before implementation
Values for factors such as the ‘social cost of carbon’ assume too much importance in determining cost-benefit outcomes.
More Indigenous Guardians provide benefits for climate, nature, and reconciliation
Eighty per cent of the world’s remaining biodiversity is on lands cared for and loved by Indigenous Peoples. That’s not an accident.
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.
It’s time to stop stalling and advance the Climate Aligned Finance Act
Bill S-243 is a gold-standard piece of legislation that would align Canada’s financial system with our climate change commitments, writes Amr Addas.
New StatsCan data reflects steady decline in Newfoundland’s offshore oil production
Newfoundland and Labrador’s GDP from oil and gas extraction fell by more than 10 per cent in 2022, compared with increases in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
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 […]
