Opinion

Banks should leave natural gas behind and move on to the lucrative renewable future, writes Rob Henderson

In Canada, one of the most striking aspects of climate justice is the disparity between Indigenous peoples and settler society, writes David Tindall.

Within industry, elected to government, and at the heart of their communities, women are organizing locally and transnationally to protect the planet and the future. And a new push was launched this week at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland.

Canada has a dismal record on meeting its promises to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but carbon taxes are a promising development, writes David Tindall.

"We seem to constantly deal with improvised targets of ever-increasing ambition from a federal government that’s never come close to meeting its targets,” Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's new cabinet was not an exercise in building a new team, but more about damage control, plugging holes due to electoral defeats and poor performances, writes Andrew Perez. 

University of Toronto's decision to begin divesting its $4-billion endowment fund from fossil fuels "immediately" could encourage other Canadian universities to do the same.

The victory climate activists are declaring in Quebec could easily prove to be pyrrhic, given the obvious risk of blowback in Alberta — and potentially in Ottawa, says columnist Max Fawcett.

Trust is perhaps the most important currency in any negotiations that require global cooperation.

Heading into COP26, delegates know the reductions made in gas emissions will not allow the world to get close to preventing the devastating changes caused by human-induced global heating, writes Nick Fillmore.

If irony could power our vehicles and heat our homes, we’d never need to drill for another barrel of oil in Western Canada again, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Close to 50 per cent of our national emissions are produced by Alberta and Saskatchewan, writes Ross Belot, who refers to this composite region as Albertawan.

Before heading to this year’s climate conference, Canada's new environment minister, Steven Guilbeault, should announce to Canadians clear and ambitious timelines to develop and implement the government’s climate platform, Lisa Gue and Tom Green write.

Reviewing the plan, it’s as if this summer’s deeply distressing smash-up against the climate emergency never happened, writes columnist Seth Klein.