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Toward a cleaner, greener future

OTTAWA—Since COP1—the first United Nations Climate Change Conference in Berlin back in 1995—the dialogue around our impact on the planet has gradually moved in the right direction, but action hasn’t followed suit. Carbon dioxide emissions released by global fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes have jumped from about 25 billion metric tonnes annually in 1995 […]

Clean, co-operative resource development will secure our future in the North

When we negotiated the Nunavut Agreement 30 years ago, we had a vision for Nunavut as a vibrant, economically self-sufficient territory that leveraged its own resources. Our vision anticipated major development, as we had seen in other jurisdictions, and guaranteed Inuit a right to fully take part in this development. Institutions were created through the […]

There is an answer to avoid a climate catastrophe, so what are we waiting for?

The United Nations recently declared: “The evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions are choking our planet and placing billions [of people] in danger. We must act decisively now to avert a climate catastrophe.” Reading the words, I feel horror for our children’s future and frustration that the sense of urgency to take sweeping action seems […]

Backtracking coal targets a COP26 failure, but summit still brings hope

LONDON, U.K.—Closing the two-week COP26 climate summit in Glasgow on Nov. 13, Alok Sharma, the British president of the 197-country conference, declared “We’ve kept 1.5 [degrees Celsius] within reach, but its pulse is weak.” But he was close to tears several times in his closing remarks. That was not because the 40,000-delegate meeting was a […]

We need nuclear power to meet our climate goals

As summer wound down, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change, released its latest report. The news is frightening and undeniable—climate change is widespread, intensifying, and accelerating. If we don’t take greater steps to cut greenhouse gas emissions, some of the consequences we’ve […]

Bring governments back better

To many of us, it might seem like an eternity has passed since the World Health Organization announced in January 2020 the appearance of a mysterious coronavirus-related pneumonia in Wuhan, China. Today, COVID-19 has evolved into four variants around the world infecting 188.3 million people and causing more than four million deaths. Throughout this time, one truth […]