Opinion

There's a growing conflict between ambitious climate action and retrograde investment treaties that indemnify foreign investors from government decisions that cut into their future profits.

At COP28, oil and gas companies and petrostates like Alberta made their pitch to have their climate cake and eat it too. Now that the conference is over and the world has agreed to transition away from fossil fuels, they're in for a rude awakening.

For the past few months, Canadians have been banned from sharing news articles on Facebook and Instagram, places where many people turned for information.

Finding middle ground between the oil and gas sector and climate activists may be the right chess move in politics, but the wrong moral move that gambles with our children’s future.

A fossil fuel phaseout would add momentum to the influx of green jobs and investment already underway in Canada.

Contrary to what Premier Danielle Smith keeps saying, the federal government's new emissions cap on oil and gas won't force Alberta to reduce its oil and gas production. That's going to be the market's job — one it's already starting to do.

As co-founder of Gay4Nature, Anna Bigland-Pritchard uses opera to raise awareness of queer and environmental issues.

There’s one important aspect of climate solutions discussed at COP28 that deserves more attention — the environmental impact of digitization.

COP28 has finally delivered a breakthrough commitment for a new Loss and Damage Fund to support the countries most impacted by climate change. But billions are needed if the fund is to serve its purpose and make a real difference.

With devastating impacts on communities, biodiversity and the global climate, the growing forest biomass industry could turn clean energy dreams into nightmarish destruction.

For the first time ever, there will be a faith pavilion at the UN climate summit in Dubai. This is why that matters.

Here at COP28, the UN climate conference in Dubai, health is in focus. Me and my fellow medical professionals are here with the message that the climate crisis is a health emergency, and phasing out fossil fuels is the cure. Unfortunately, fossil fuel lobbyists are also here in droves, trying to delay action. 

The CBC is staring down its own annihilation at the hands of a Pierre Poilievre government. So why do its leaders keep giving him new reasons to attack the CBC's existence?

Efforts at COP28 to insert weasel words like “unabated” are linked to false narratives about technologies like carbon capture, utilization and storage, allowing us to have our cake and eat it too.

Activists are horrified by a climate conference in one of richest petrostates on the planet. Remind me why they went?