Canada

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.

According to Statistics Canada, approximately 19,488 more Canadians died between March 2020 and July 2021 beyond the toll taken by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Forty-five governments led by the U.K. pledged Saturday to spend billions on transforming the world's farms, fisheries and forests in an effort to make our food more sustainable. 

With previous climate conferences coming under fire for serving unsustainable meals, the organizers of this year's United Nations meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, have highlighted efforts to serve climate-friendly meals. But critics say those measures — and the food itself — aren't enough to emphasize the urgent role food plays in saving the planet. 

When it comes to ending climate change, international climate negotiations have typically focused on ending the world's reliance on fossil fuels. Food — responsible for about a third of the world's emissions and vulnerable to a chaotic climate —has largely flown under the radar. 

On Tuesday, Canada backed a controversial initiative aimed at boosting countries' support for high-tech farming methods designed to reduce emissions and mitigate the impacts of climate change on farms and food. 

Last year, a restaurant in Singapore made headlines when it became the first place in the world to serve lab-grown meat. With meat and dairy responsible for roughly a sixth of global emissions, the U.S. company behind the pricey plates of artificial chicken nuggets, Eat Just, branded them "a revolutionary step towards solving climate change." 

Late Monday, over 100 countries representing 85 per cent of the world’s forests pledged to reverse deforestation and land degradation by 2030, with a dozen countries putting billions of dollars on the table to back the effort.

A breakdown of who will be at COP26 in Glasgow and what power they have when it comes to UN climate negotiations.

Protesters briefly disrupted traffic outside the main gates to the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, on Monday to highlight the refusal of Canada and the U.S. to block new oil and gas projects. 

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.

Artificial fertilizers used widely on fields in Canada and worldwide are responsible for almost a third more greenhouse gas emissions than the global aviation industry, new research has found. 

The global climate justice movement focused its protest energy directly on big banks who bankroll new and expanded fossil fuel projects on Friday, with Royal Bank of Canada marked as enemy No. 1 in actions across Canada.

As far as activists are concerned, key investment numbers tell the story of a Canadian banking sector that says one thing publicly but continues to invest in fossil fuels away from the spotlight.

Many of Canada's marine protected areas are weakly protected and vulnerable to threats from extraction industries, trawling, or dumping despite Canada's ambitious conservation goals as it heads to COP26.