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.

536 Articles

Save Old Growth organizer fears his activism has made him a target for deportation

International student Zain Haq, co-founder of the Save Old Growth (SOG) civil resistance group, is in hiding because he's worried the Canada Border Services Agency wants to deport him.

Rochelle Baker

June 16th 2022

Zero Carbon: Heat pumps on a war footing

The death panel report is a grotesquerie, cataloging just how miserably unfair climate change is to the vulnerable. In addition to failures in preparation and response, the coroners found that most of the 619 climate victims in B.C. were elders and neighbours with medical conditions, typically living in “socially or materially deprived neighbourhoods.”

Chris Hatch

June 13th 2022

‘To say Doug Ford is the chief planner of every municipality in Ontario is crazy’: A conversation with urban designer Ken Greenberg

Canada’s National Observer spoke to Greenberg about Ontario’s current “tall and sprawl” approach to housing development and what it takes to build affordable, climate-friendly, livable communities.

Jessica McDiarmid

June 10th 2022

Why this Quebec farmer is growing seeds for ‘resilience’

As global supply chains continue to struggle, food prices surge, and climate change threatens the world's farmland with droughts or floods, some farmers say that locally grown seeds are key to making Canada's food supplies more sustainable.

Food Insider

Marc Fawcett-Atkinson

June 8th 2022

Climate silence in the Ontario election

Chris Hatch

June 7th 2022

Turning soil to gold

Karn Manhas, the CEO of Canadian agtech company Terramera, believes that technology is key to making more sustainable regenerative farming widespread.

Farming for the future

Marc Fawcett-Atkinson

May 30th 2022

Why you probably won't know if you're eating gene-edited food

Canadians could soon be unknowingly eating gene-edited foods that have not been assessed for safety by Health Canada.

Food Insider

Marc Fawcett-Atkinson

May 24th 2022

NASA "Blue Marble" photo of planet Earth.

Remember the Copenhagen Accord's 2020 targets? Here's how Canada and many of its peers did

The 2020 emissions data is finally out. Here's how Canada and many of its peers did on their Copenhagen Accord targets. (Spoiler alert: Europeans and Americans, yes. Canadians, not so much.)

Race Against Climate Change

Barry Saxifrage

May 24th 2022

Christie McLeod is changing the way lawyers think about climate

As a lawyer, 32-year-old Christie McLeod believes her profession has an ethical obligation to advise clients to advance climate justice.

Youth climate action

Patricia Lane

May 24th 2022

Making heat pumps ordinary: The Aki Energy story

Instead of heat pumps being the exception to the rule, make them the ordinary way of doing things, write Shaun Loney and Darcy Wood of Aki Energy.

Opinion

Bolder, faster, together: Perspectives on societal transition

May 24th 2022

Canada's accelerating forest carbon crisis

Canada's forests are being logged faster than they are growing back, writes columnist Barry Saxifrage. That's pouring billions of tonnes of CO2 into our rapidly destabilizing climate.

Race Against Climate Change