To reduce the consumption of fossil fuels and stem disinformation that blocks effective climate action, a comprehensive ban on advertising, promotion and sponsorship of fossil fuel products and industries is needed.

In South Korea as countries negotiate a new treaty to address plastic pollution, Canada joined a powerful negotiating bloc of over 100 countries working to ensure the treaty includes a global target to reduce virgin plastics to sustainable levels — a measure Big Plastic is fighting tooth and nail.

This week as Canada’s National Observer toured the refineries at the doorstep of Aamjiwaang First Nation, rotten egg and acrid chemical smells wafted over children playing ball hockey nearby. Air monitoring data revealed another spike of sulphur dioxide on Nov. 26, reaching 300 parts per billion — a level more than four times higher than the maximum hourly concentrations set by the federal government. Just another day in Chemical Valley.

Rich countries agreeing to provide at least US$300 billion to developing countries by 2035 for climate action is a “band-aid on a bullet wound,” according to advocates, following the stunning failure of COP29 to land an ambitious climate finance goal.

As the annual climate change negotiations enter their final days with countries still deeply divided over key issues, Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault called host country Azerbaijan's lack of ambition "deplorable" for the disappointing options on the table.

An analysis of the delegate list conducted by Canada's National Observer shows Big Oil lobbyists from Canada are out in full force to influence the annual UN climate change summit in their favour. After years of derailing negotiations, climate advocates say it's time to bar fossil fuel companies from the meetings for good.

International climate change negotiations are kicking off this week in Azerbaijan, with trillions of dollars that will decide the fate of the planet’s warming trajectory set to be negotiated against a global backdrop of worsening extreme weather.

Nature is being pushed to the brink as logging, mining and the relentless burning of fossil fuels destroy ecosystems — but even while acknowledging the problem, countries negotiating at COP16 still failed to agree on how to pay for conservation efforts.

As international biodiversity talks get underway in Colombia for COP16, political turmoil at home is jeopardizing Canada’s nature protection plans.

The planet is facing interconnected threats from climate change, nature loss and plastic pollution. Officials say that three upcoming environmental conferences could be key to develop strategies to address them.

A new groundbreaking scientific study identifying "dark oxygen" production on the seafloor, has thrown the deep sea mining industry into chaos as countries negotiate its future.

Two years behind schedule, the world's richest nations have finally met a long-standing commitment to provide their developing countries with US$100 billion worth of financing to respond to the climate emergency. But with needs now reaching trillions of dollars, they will need to scale their investments even further.

Though the Canadian government has begun working domestically to address plastic pollution, we need it to lead by example.

The inconvenient truth remains: plastic production is not only ongoing but expanding, fuelled by government subsidies.

Representatives from the Aamjiwnaang First Nation say they are bearing the brunt of environmental racism in Chemical Valley, and are in Ottawa to push world governments to give Indigenous nations a seat at the table as negotiations for a global plastics treaty unfold.