Catherine Abreu

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.

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.

An arms-length expert group is calling on the federal government to introduce a national carbon budget to guide the transition to a sustainable future, but how would it work?

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.

The federal government is considering advertising the benefits of the carbon price rebate in the latest sign Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is planning to defend the policy tooth and nail against Conservative attacks.

The agreement approved in Dubai was welcomed by some observers as a historic turning point in global climate negotiations and stronger than a draft floated earlier in the week. 

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.

A new UN report detailing what needs to happen to limit global warming in line with the Paris Agreement's goals comes as the G20 is set to meet in India.

Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault is trying to bring key allies back from the brink as international climate negotiations between rich and poor countries stall.

A fireside chat between the International Energy Agency's top boss and Canada's natural resources minister underscores competing visions for the country's energy future.

Countries are well behind on reaching an agreement at COP27 that outlines their collective climate action, but the G20 summit might have just nudged negotiators to find common ground.

“We must acknowledge a harsh truth: there is no adapting to a growing number of catastrophic events causing enormous suffering around the world,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres says to delegates as COP27 begins in Egypt.

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.

For the world to have a shot at limiting global warming to 1.5 C, Canada and other wealthy fossil fuel producing nations need to stop all production by 2034, according to a new report.

Keeping fossil fuels in the ground is no longer a taboo discussion, thanks to an international alliance to halt oil and gas production, leading climate experts told actor and longtime environmentalist Jane Fonda on Friday.