Endangered salmon are left to flounder as Canada hosts COP15
Ottawa has “abandoned” endangered salmon and steelhead trout despite its biodiversity promises, a coalition of B.C. environmental groups allege.
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With the planet in peril, Canada must get serious about protecting nature
We need a watershed moment, one that galvanizes global action to protect nature, write Sandra Schwartz and Shawn McCarthy.
Trudeau comes up against criticism reaching for ‘forefront’ of Indigenous-led conservation
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s opening speech at COP15 was interrupted by a group of Indigenous protesters playing drums and singing “Canada is on native land” and “climate leaders don’t build pipelines.”
World leaders need to be at COP15
COP15 is supposed to create a Paris Agreement for nature, but right now we stand on the brink of it being a failure, writes Kenyan environmentalist and climate activist Elizabeth Wathuti.
New federal funding buoys First Nations' efforts to protect Great Bear Sea
Coastal First Nations striving to protect to B.C.’s Great Bear Sea got a boost after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced $800 million in funding for Indigenous-led conservation projects on Wednesday.
Feds table more than $1 billion to protect biodiversity
With the United Nations biodiversity conference in Montreal underway, the federal government is putting over $1 billion on the table for conservation projects led by Indigenous Peoples in Canada and for developing countries.
Will Indigenous sovereignty be on the agenda at COP15?
Biodiversity thrives under Indigenous protection, but will Indigenous rights and title play a key part in negotiations at the COP15 biodiversity conference in Montreal — or will these issues remain at the margins?
Humanity has become ‘a weapon of mass extinction.’ Can the world make a peace pact with nature in Montreal?
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is clear about what he wants to see at the COP15 biodiversity conference in Montreal: a peace pact with nature.
Leaked letter puts focus on Canada's forestry trade priorities ahead of COP15
Canada supports the goals of the European Union's forestry trade rules, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says, after a leaked letter recently revealed the country's efforts to water down proposed regulations right before the United Nations' global biodiversity conference kicks off in Montreal.
The silent culprit in the monarch's decline
Ending the “radio silence” on wireless radiation should be a late-breaking research topic for Canadian leadership as the country hosts the COP15 biodiversity conference, writes Meg Sears.
We need to protect endangered ecosystems to protect endangered species
The outcome of the global gathering in Montreal may be our last best hope for nature, writes Dan Kraus.
Jude Sampson finds climate resilience in community-building
In high school, Sampson co-led the organizing of 10,000 people in the 2019 Fridays for Future Halifax climate strikes. This 20-year-old is now encouraging their university, Dalhousie, to divest from fossil fuels.
Protecting peatlands pivotal for climate and biodiversity goals, scientists say
As the United Nations biodiversity conference draws near, dozens of scientists from 13 countries are calling for protection of the world’s waterlogged, carbon-rich peatlands, a quarter of which exist within Canada’s borders and are threatened by development.
We are living on borrowed time. Will the G20 rise to our collective futures?
A systemic rethink of the G20’s fit for purpose is warranted. We desperately need meaningful multilateralism to restore humanity’s path towards common prosperity.
Why Thomas Clark is turning flies and food waste into face cream
This 29-year-old is disrupting the beauty industry by using oil from flies that consume food waste to make beauty products.
