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As pressure grows on the oil and gas sector to reduce its emissions, one Calgary-based company is banking on the potential to convert waste gas from oil wells into valuable electricity for nearby communities.

A 26-member board is finally beginning work on the UN's new loss and damage fund. And the to-do list is long.

The wind gusting across north German farm country brings much to the village of Sprakebuell: fog and rain from the sea, the occasional migrating stork, the faint smell of manure in the newly fertilized fields.

Heads of state, finance leaders and activists from around the world will converge in Paris this week to seek ways to overhaul the world's development banks — like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank — and help them weather a warmer and stormier world.

David Malpass was criticized when he avoided a question about fossil fuels’ link to the climate crisis.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be in Saskatoon today, January 16, 2023, to visit a rare earths element processing plant.

The United Nations' development program is calling on rich countries and financial institutions in them to do more to help alleviate a growing debt crisis faced by the world’s poorest countries, including by writing off debts — not just rescheduling them.

Canada's carbon pricing system is disproportionately hard on Indigenous communities and small businesses and not hard enough on the biggest emitters, the federal environment commissioner said on Tuesday, April 26, 2022, in a new audit.

Decades of war, poverty, and fossil fuel extraction have devastated the country’s environment and its people.

Canada joined its G20 allies in pushing Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers to allow humanitarian aid to better reach the country's suffering people.

The governor of the Bank of Canada pressed the case for COVID-19 vaccines to be sent to developing nations as part of a broader push to not only end the pandemic, but aid Canada's economic recovery and ease price pressures on consumer goods.

A study involving 13,000 people in London found that a relatively small increase in exposure to nitrogen dioxide led to a 32 per cent increase in the risk of needing community-based treatment.

Indigenous water activist Autumn Peltier addressed hundreds of international guests at UN headquarters in Manhattan on Saturday, September 28, 2019.

The study by the group of business leaders, public sector leaders and academia says leaders around the world need to enact strong, stable pollution pricing to incentivize the reduction of emissions.

The eco-minded Prince Harry is embarking on a massive travel sustainability initiative in partnership with key travel providers. They aim to improve the practices of the global industry amid an ever-increasing number of travellers.