We need to live up to our climate commitments, now
Now is not the time to retreat. Or to think we can fully ‘adapt’ to the extreme ravages of climate change. Or to think that we don’t need to act urgently because we’re a small slice of the problem. This is it.
After 30 years of failed mitigation, we need to cut emissions by half globally by 2030; this is almost impossible, but must be done
GIBSONS, B.C.—About a decade ago, there was a flurry of news stories and columns in the Canadian media about carbon pricing. In the 1990s, I had been very pro-carbon pricing, but then-British Columbia premier Gordon Campbell’s ineffectual and pretend mitigation plan with its puny carbon tax was a wake-up call for me. Carbon pricing was […]
Our fossil-fuel industry is like the band playing as the Titanic sinks, writes Tom McElroy
Re: “Climate adaptation: act now or pay later,” (editorial, The Hill Times, July 10). What happened to polluter pays? The climate is changing disastrously. The scientific basis for this has been known for almost 200 years. It is largely to do with the release of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels. The health, economic, environmental, and social impacts are only […]
Misconceptions of what ‘net-zero emissions’ actually means will have dire health impacts
We cannot emphasize enough that current plans for addressing climate change are incompatible with an acceptable destiny. Our future health, as opposed to dollars, must become our priority.
Boing! Just like that! The Anthropocene officially started on July 11, we’re not in the Holocene anymore
We’re not in the Holocene any more. That golden age of warm, stable climate in which humans started farming, grew their population a thousandfold, and created high-energy, hi-tech civilizations is at an end.
Ending public financial support for fossil fuels
Canada will not meet its climate targets without stronger policies to reduce fossil fuel use.
‘We’re already living in the future when it comes to climate disasters’: more funding needed to ensure feds’ climate adaptation strategy targets are achieved, say insurers and NDP
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says ‘we know we will need to invest more’ to ensure targets are met. Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says ‘we know we will need to invest more’ to ensure targets are met.
Climate adaptation: Act now or pay later
The country will need to invest far more if it hopes to achieve its adaptation and resiliency goals.
A cap on oil and gas emissions would make Canada’s climate pledge credible
Successful climate policy requires a view of the world as it is, not as we wish it might be.
The prime minister can save the Jane Goodall Act
Given Senate delay and obstruction, passing a version of Bill S-241 may rely on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government.
