Destination Zero

New data shows Canada's greenhouse gas emissions are creeping up but still remain below pre-pandemic levels. But with oil and gas production pushing the sector's emissions higher, all eyes are on Ottawa's long-awaited, and now delayed, emissions cap policy.

Canada’s image at the world’s signature climate negotiations could be complicated by infighting, some observers fear, as two of the federal government's ardent critics at the provincial level look to capture attention at the United Nations climate summit known as COP28.

Linda Solomon Wood, editor-in-chief of Canada's National Observer, spoke with Cat Abreu, founder of Destination Zero, about Canada's newly released Emissions Reduction Plan.

Global activists are calling out world leaders Friday for deferring to the fossil fuel industry and courting catastrophe on the last day of COP26, the UN climate summit in Glasgow.

Canada was among 19 countries promising to eliminate greenhouse-gas emissions from some international shipping routes at the COP26 climate talks in Scotland on Wednesday, November 10, 2021.

The victory climate activists are declaring in Quebec could easily prove to be pyrrhic, given the obvious risk of blowback in Alberta — and potentially in Ottawa, says columnist Max Fawcett.

Newly minted Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said on Wednesday, October 27, 2021, there is nothing 'really new" in the political rhetoric between Alberta and Ottawa around climate change this week, and shrugged off any suggestion his appointment will make that relationship more difficult than it already is.

A new analysis suggests the Liberal climate plan could meet Canada's greenhouse gas emissions targets for the first time before the end of this decade.