Team Canada approach is essential, if we can figure out what it looks like
Time is running out—Trump will move back into the White House in a little over a month’s time.
Carbon tax mayhem: everyone screams, but who is listening?
Carbon pricing is not a silver bullet, but it remains an essential tool in reducing emissions and steering the country toward a greener future.
Global plastics treaty failed: how Canada can still protects its environment through a national microfibre strategy
Over two decades of scientific research reveals that microfibres are the predominant form of microplastics contaminating virtually all reaches of our planet. There is growing evidence that these tiny particles are being ingested by people and wildlife and posing troubling health risks.
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.
Turning the corner
In Canada the meager momentum of climate mitigation is stalling out. As the gloom of winter sets in it’s easy to be depressed, but in defeat there are seeds of future mitigation success if we wake up and get serious about what is at stake.
Climate adaptation is as important as climate mitigation
Most of the time, we emphasize the importance of fixing an issue by addressing its root cause; otherwise, we are likely to see the issue happening again.
Water security needs water intelligence
You cannot manage what you do not measure, and we simply measure less about freshwater than we used to in Canada.
Canada’s siloed approach to natural disasters isn’t working
We need more systemic approaches to the ever-increasing threats of heat, drought, wildfires, floods, hailstorms, and other extreme events.
Good that Canada will respect rulings of International Criminal Court, writes Dirlik
It’s good that Canada will respect the rulings of the ICC. Even better if it called for equal rights. Some context. In 1977, Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin offered Israel a 20-year ceasefire. Recognizing their intractable differences, he said this would enable “future generations” unscarred by violence to better deal with them. Imagine how much […]
The politics of climate change are changing
Economists tell us such carbon taxes are the most efficient way to fight climate change. Yet, regular people will often see them as disproportionately harming the middle class.
