"Now is exactly the time to be talking about extreme weather, climate and resilience," Catherine McKenna told a climate change scientist on Twitter on Monday. "Failing to do so is irresponsible."
While a spokesman for Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains insists the federal government takes climate change seriously, he says the Competition Bureau has to set its own priorities for investigations.
The United Nations climate panel has announced plans to put human behaviour and consumption under the microscope for the first time since it was created in 1988.
Among the tools that the government can use is its Disaster Assistance Response Team, made up of members of the military and civilians from Global Affairs Canada.
Climate experts are calling for more women to take part in research and policy-making in order to respond to climate change with a gender-specific approach.
Canada’s independent competition watchdog says it doesn’t have enough resources to investigate false advertising by climate deniers, and is calling on the public for help.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is spending the week in Montreal, where it will pool together the climate science expertise of its 195 member states.
Export Development Canada, Canada's federal credit agency, has priced its very first 'Green Bond' in Canadian dollars — a sign of rising global interest in climate financing, it says.
France’s government is unveiling a law to ban all production and exploration of oil and natural gas by 2040 on the country’s mainland and overseas territories.
Canada's push to get climate change action included in a revamped NAFTA is turning into a heated domestic dispute just as it makes its debut at the official negotiating table.
The windswept archipelago of Iles-de-la-Madeleine used to spend most of every winter firmly encased in the ice of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, protected from the worst effects of winter storms.