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Later is Too Late
Canada's National Observer takes you inside the rooms at the United Nations Climate Conference in Dubai and reports on the race against climate change.
Exclusive: Overhauling the global financial system with Mia Mottley
In recent years, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has emerged on the world scene as a fierce champion of global financial reform to avert the worst impacts of the climate crisis. In an interview with Canada's National Observer, she unpacks what she hopes to see unfold in forthcoming negotiations.
Slow pace of climate talks builds momentum for a new treaty
In the face of accelerating natural disasters and the slow state of climate negotiations, new diplomatic efforts to rein in fossil fuels are being developed. Will it be enough to avoid catastrophe?
For the first time in nearly three decades of climate change negotiations, countries have agreed to signal the end of the fossil fuel era
The ‘UAE Consensus’ on climate change is anything but universal agreement. In fact, it reveals the deep divisions set to define the next decade of climate action.
Canada tapped by United Arab Emirates to help broker final deal at U.N. climate summit
Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault now finds himself, alongside a select handful of other countries, in a pivotal role brokering the fierce debates around phasing out fossil fuels that have defined COP28.
Quebec’s mission to end oil and gas
At the annual UN climate change negotiations now unfolding in Dubai, Quebec was promoted to the leadership team of the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance –– a coalition of countries and sub-national governments that have committed to banning the exploration and development for new oil and gas.
Prairie provinces flog oil and gas at climate talks
Former environment and climate change minister Catherine McKenna told Canada’s National Observer it’s “completely bonkers” to come to a climate summit to push oil and gas extraction.
Does Canada need a climate czar?
“There's all sorts of reasons why it's challenging for governments to deliver on commitments, so that's the person who ultimately is cracking the whip, saying we've got to get this done faster," says former federal environment and climate change minister Catherine McKenna.
Fossil fuel lobbyists infiltrate UN climate talks in record numbers
"They're private sector entities for whom their priority is to do what's best for their business. And that doesn't make them evil, but it does mean they don't belong here.”
The oil and gas emissions cap is the trophy Trudeau wants. A major update is just days away
In an interview with Canada’s National Observer, Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault said details of the oil and gas emissions cap framework are being finalized but should be ready “in the coming days.”
World leaders put on notice that more ambitious emission reduction targets are needed — and soon
New commitments under the Paris Agreement to slash more planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions are due in 2025, the UN's climate change executive secretary told delegates on the opening day of the annual climate change negotiations, upping the pressure on countries like Canada that remain off track.
Countries pour money into new loss and damage fund in a stunning achievement for the first day of UN climate conference
With the leadup to COP28 marked by scandal after scandal and geopolitical tensions pitting the Global North and South against each other, establishing a loss and damage fund and pouring hundreds of millions into it on the first day of the UN climate conference is an unprecedented achievement, advocates say.
COP28 starts today. Here’s what you need to know
The annual UN climate change negotiations officially kick off in Dubai, and Canada’s National Observer is on the ground to cover it.