Closing the gap: aligning financial regulation with climate commitments
If Canada is to meet its climate commitments, we must do more than require that financial institutions disclose the risks they face from a changing climate and energy transition.
From instability to sustainability: the path to healthy people on a healthy planet
The intersection of environment and health is a powerful sweet spot where our efforts can yield outsized positive impacts on our lives now and into the future.
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.
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.
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.
