Opinion

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?

In 2015, young voters propelled Justin Trudeau to power. But if current polls hold, they'll be the ones who sweep him out of it. Can his new communications guru do anything to turn the tide?

If my climate solutions reporting speaks to you, will you make a donation now and support bold Canadian journalism that digs into solutions to the climate emergency? 

A 16-year-old student led the environmental team at Richmond Secondary School to plant the first Miyawaki pocket forest in Western Canada.

Why I’m here with colleagues and allies at COP28? Because civil society is capable of exerting power to balance corporate interests and protect the global co-operation process — as imperfect as it is.

Right now, Canada’s financial system isn’t on the right track to ensure kids like mine will have a green and equitable future.

COP28 must deliver a global agreement to phase out fossil fuel production. 

The latest United Nations climate conference will almost certainly fail to meet its stated goals. But as a flurry of recent news shows, the energy transition is already well past the point of no return — and picking up speed every day.

Now, as we work out what’s next and who gets how much from the $100-million pie, Canada must ensure the deals favour all news in the public interest.

How can swallowing asbestos from old water pipes cause cancer in Americans and not Canadians?