Climate Solutions Reporting

Climate Solutions Reporting Project produces written stories, podcasts, and newsletters about Canada's action and inaction in fighting global heating, as well as the impact of environmental degradation and solutions on people and communities. We offer these stories free of charge thanks to supporters and collaborators, including individual philanthropists and foundations. Read more about the project here.

535 Articles

Coal is extremely CO2-intensive. Gasoline is far worse

As Canada pushes the world to eliminate coal first, we should take an honest look at our own gasoline emissions, which are even more CO2-intensive than coal, and surging out of control.

Race Against Climate Change

Barry Saxifrage

December 15th 2022

How a Canadian farmer partnered with ‘a force in the universe’ to save his family’s land

As countries gather in Montreal to hammer out a new deal to protect global biodiversity, farms like the Coens' could offer a blueprint for how we produce food in the future. Agriculture is the largest driver of biodiversity loss worldwide, with farming identified by the United Nations as a threat to 86 per cent of species at risk of extinction.

Negotiating survival

Marc Fawcett-Atkinson

December 14th 2022

‘Our big fear is that they’re going to disappear altogether’: First Nations fight to save caribou herd trapped on Ontario islands

For years, two First Nations in northern Ontario have fought for government help to save a declining caribou herd from extinction.

Allison Hannaford

December 14th 2022

Has B.C. turned a new leaf around protecting biodiversity?

B.C. Premier David Eby’s new vow to conserve 30 per cent of the province's land base needs to be tied to legislation, strong protections and partnerships and cash for Indigenous stewardship, conservationists say.

Negotiating survival

Rochelle Baker

December 13th 2022

Indigenous Peoples have been the most effective stewards of animals and nature since time immemorial

Canada struggles with a legacy of colonial conservation policies that have disregarded Indigenous rights and sovereignty and damaged relationships with Indigenous communities.

Opinion

Negotiating survival

Victoria Watson

December 13th 2022

Provinces pour money into conservation efforts

On Monday, N.S. Environment and Climate Change Minister Timothy Halman said the province would put $20 million forward to protect land and water in the province and is designating 9,300 hectares of Crown land as protected. This will bring protected land in the province to 13 per cent.

Negotiating survival

Cloe Logan

December 13th 2022

The heart of UN biodiversity talks beats at the Indigenous Village, but will it give life to Indigenous rights in COP negotiations?

It's unclear if free, prior and informed consent or Indigenous rights and title will make it into the final text at COP15. Either way, Indigenous Peoples will continue to do the work that makes biodiversity thrive.

Negotiating survival

Matteo Cimellaro

December 13th 2022

Canada signs onto global forest restoration challenge at COP15

Canada promises to restore 19 million hectares of degraded and deforested land by 2030 as international negotiations to save the world’s rapidly dwindling biodiversity carry on in Montreal.

Negotiating survival

Natasha Bulowski

December 12th 2022

Canada launches critical minerals alliance to avoid reliance on ‘authoritarian states’

As concerns about China’s dominant economic position in the industry mount, Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson is unveiling a new international alliance aimed at securing the critical minerals needed to transition off fossil fuels.

Negotiating survival

John Woodside

December 12th 2022

Nova Scotia’s ‘vague’ climate plan big on promises, light on action, opposition says

On Dec. 7, the province released its Climate Change Plan, which it said will help Nova Scotia reach its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 53 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 and reaching net-zero emissions by 2050.

Cloe Logan

December 12th 2022

Paul Shore finds happiness beyond high-tech in kids’ climate books

He has an engineer's conviction that humans can solve anything we put our minds to. Then he started wondering how he could convey that to children and their parents.

Opinion

December 12th 2022

Momentum grows for a permanent youth environmental committee in Quebec

Target 21 would require all COP15 party countries to guarantee young people’s participation in domestic environmental decision-making.

Opinion

Negotiating survival

Claire Warmels

December 12th 2022

The first ever march at a COP biodiversity conference was Indigenous-led

Over the next week of negotiations, battles remain over targets around Indigenous sovereignty and self-governance, and free prior and informed consent. Will the message of the march be heard by COP negotiators?

Negotiating survival

Matteo Cimellaro

December 10th 2022

fice people sit at a podium having a panel discussion

‘We do not have time’: Civil society groups worry COP15 negotiations moving too slow

If countries keep negotiating the terms of a new biodiversity plan — one that will determine the future of life on Earth — at the current pace, the world will continue to barrel head-first into the biodiversity crisis, civil society groups warn.

Negotiating survival

Natasha Bulowski

December 9th 2022

There is some agreement but it's slow progress at Montreal biodiversity talks, says Guilbeault

Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says there's been agreement on one of Canada's main goals at the international conference in Montreal aimed at protecting the world's declining biodiversity.

Negotiating survival

The Canadian Press

December 9th 2022