climate action

By ceding the climate ground to Trudeau, Jagmeet Singh and the NDP are allowing him to wrongly define what climate action looks like, writes Cameron Fenton, Canada team lead with 350.org.

The U.S. president should spend more money and raise taxes on the wealthy and corporations, writes Julian Brave NoiseCat.

A new book pushes back against the narrative that individual actions make little difference to the climate.

Mark Jaccard, author of 'The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success,' will join Canada’s National Observer founder and editor-in-chief Linda Solomon Wood on April 8 for an exclusive Conversations event.

"A key indicator that a government understands the climate emergency is a willingness to tell the truth," writes columnist Seth Klein. "In Alberta’s case, that doesn’t mean we have to shut down the oilsands tomorrow. But it does mean admitting the oil and gas sector needs to be carefully and thoughtfully managed for wind-down over the next 20 to 30 years."

“The climate issue is so intersectional. It hits housing, it hits social justice, the pandemic — we want to explore all of that,” says Abby Neufeld, co-founder of The New Twenties, a writers’ collective and magazine aiming to shape discourse around climate issues.

Despite recent successes, students urging their universities to divest from fossil fuels say school administrations need to pay closer attention to their demands.

Teenage indie folk duo Moscow Apartment are among the scores of Canadian musicians joining a global movement to reimagine how the music industry tackles the climate emergency and demand more drastic government and corporate action to address it.

Canada’s longest coastline in the world, along with the U.S.’s largest exclusive economic zone, makes for an ocean-based North American blue economy powerhouse of the future, writes Kate Moran.

Choosing a more just and equitable low-carbon future will certainly involve growing pains, even for those with the best of intentions. The Trudeau-Biden meeting suggests the two leaders are serious about pushing for this type of future, write Deb Morrison and Tom Bowman.

Young activists from across Canada want specific climate conditions attached to pandemic recovery funds in the next federal budget and no more new fossil fuel infrastructure, they told federal Green Party Leader Annamie Paul on Friday.

By pinning its electoral hopes and dreams on flipping orange ridings, the Green Party all but guarantees Canada will fail to address the climate emergency, writes Amara Possian, a Toronto-based professor and Canada campaigns Director at 350.org.

John Kerry made the remark as the U.S. officially returned to the climate agreement on Friday, 107 days after it left under former president Donald Trump.

Mike Thompson, chief economist and director of analysis for the U.K.'s Climate Change Committee, says, "It’s pretty clear that once you set these targets, this is not about tomorrow’s problem, this is today’s problem."

As destructive as it has been, COVID-19 is but a prelude to a climate apocalypse, writes Bruce Campbell.