climate change

Justin Trudeau must step in, save Canada's climate efforts from poisoning by pipeline regulator

Avik Dey, Director of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board's Natural Resources investment team is taking high-risk investment bets on the oil and gas sector.

DND is concerned about the possibility of a catastrophic oil spill from the Energy East pipeline and doubts TransCanada Corp is equipped to clean up any mess, Radio-Canada reported on Tuesday.

In all, 337 intervenors are scheduled to give their take on a pipeline that has already widened a chasm oil industry supporters and those who oppose it on environmental grounds.

Newly-published research shows, riding-by-riding, that Canadians widely believe climate change is happening, is at least partly caused by human activity, and overwhelmingly support cap and trade.

In 2015, several markers like land and ocean temperatures, sea level and atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations broke records, setting new benchmarks for climate change's planetary impact.

Caleb Behn, who is from West Moberly First Nation, one of the nations taking the federal government to court, says Trudeau has broken his promise.

In the village of Immerath in western Germany, the buildings are boarded up and there is not a pedestrian to be seen.

Dozens of major oil companies, including some industry leaders in Canada, are being summoned in an international investigation for allegedly causing human rights impacts linked to climate change.

The Pembina Institute has released a series of FAQs dispelling myths and misinformation about Alberta's carbon tax, what some say are being used to "attack the carbon tax for being a carbon tax."

Countries could be swallowed whole. Drinking water could be scarce. Both could lead to increased conflict, said Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion.

Lack of full disclosure, Mark Carney said, makes it difficult for investors, creditors and regulators to assess who is on top of the increasingly critical issue of climate change.

Mark Carney, arguably the most powerful Canadian on the planet, is back in Canada to talk dollars and climate change.

TransCanada Corp faced uncomfortable questions about unusual behind-the-scenes tactics on Thursday as it began a new charm offensive in Ottawa to win public support for a new pipeline.

California's cap-and-trade program to fight climate-changing pollution from fossil fuels would survive long past Gov. Jerry Brown's time in office under a state proposal Tuesday.