Ottawa Insider

With the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warning that Earth is warming faster than previously thought, and a federal election on the horizon, Canadian politicians of all stripes are casting themselves as the ones voters should trust with action.

Paris Agreement climate targets could soon be out of reach without immediate and massive greenhouse gas emission reductions, says the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in a landmark report published Monday.

The City of Brampton will plant 8,000 trees over the next year to rehabilitate its urban tree canopy with help from the federal government.

The federal government might not be directly responsible for many of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions, but if it’s serious about wanting to be a climate leader, it needs to clean up its own act, says a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is Canada’s largest single-profession pension plan, managing over $200 billion worth of assets around the world, and in January, committed to increasing its climate-friendly investments. 

A majority of Canadians believe wealth inequality should be tackled by increasing taxes on the wealthy and large corporations and even said it could influence their vote, according to a new poll.

Government and its critics agree infrastructure needs to be built for a changing climate, but how it's financed will be pivotal to the type of infrastructure Canadians get.

Rapidly switching from burning coal and biomass to renewable energy sources is vital if Nova Scotia is to take any meaningful action on climate change, says the Sierra Club’s Atlantic chapter. 

Ahead of a likely federal election, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dropped into Newfoundland and Labrador on Wednesday with a multibillion-dollar bailout package designed to beat down the soaring costs of the contentious Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project and avert a feared bankruptcy.

Innovation, Science, and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne is casting Ottawa’s recent investments to decarbonize heavy industry as a way to competitively position Canada in the global economy, but some are questioning if the country is betting on the wrong horse.

Canada is considering cracking down on the trade of African elephant ivory, but is asking Canadians to weigh in on how far it should go.

Quebec’s environment minister recently cited environmental concerns as the reason to axe a proposed multibillion-dollar LNG project, but a glut of natural gas around the world is pushing some to ask if the industry is a dead end for Canada.

After a groundswell of opposition to GNL Québec’s multibillion-dollar natural gas project, the provincial government has rejected the plan. Now advocates say it’s time for other governments to follow suit.

The federal government is asking Canadians to provide feedback on potential elements of its proposed just transition legislation.

More than 90 years after the Lac Seul First Nation’s reserve land was flooded to build a hydroelectric dam, Chief Clifford Bull says his people may finally receive just compensation.