climate change

Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, the two Canadians detained by China in 2018 as part of a high-stakes trilateral stalemate with the United States, are facing separate court hearings in the next week.

The African Development Bank Group, which is operating the climate fund, will receive the money from Canada at the end of the month, according to Global Affairs Canada. The fund is set to last for 30 years and will go towards supporting energy-efficient projects, scaling up renewable energy and developing green infrastructure and sustainable cities.

“With climate change and sea-level rise impacts, we just need to get away from hardening our shorelines or we’re gonna end up without any beaches,” said Hawaii state Sen. Mike Gabbard. “And what’s Hawaii without any beaches?”

Bill C-204 seeks to halt only the export of plastic waste labelled “for final disposal,” however environmental groups note Canadian plastic is often mislabelled as recyclable and gets shipped to countries that lack the proper infrastructure to effectively recycle mixed or contaminated plastic waste.

A study of tree rings dating back to the Roman empire concludes Europe's weather since 2014 has been extraordinary.

Veteran climate activist Bill McKibben joined Canada's National Observer editor-in-chief Linda Solomon Wood last week to talk about Canada's climate future.

The agriculture committee kicked off its study of Bill C-206, which aims to amend the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act to add propane and natural gas to the list of farm fuels exempt from the federal carbon tax.

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.

Ontario's New Democrats say they would create a new cap-and-trade carbon pricing system if elected in 2022.

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.

Food tossed in homes alone averaged 74 kilograms per person each year globally.

Agriculture is responsible for about eight per cent of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions. But newly released internal documents suggest the federal government denies that Canada needs to take action to rapidly reduce them.

The grant is supposed to cover the upfront costs of buying 5,000 buses over the next five years. The Canada Infrastructure Bank has also committed $1.5 billion as part of its three-year, $10-billion growth plan specifically for zero-emission buses and related infrastructure.

Efforts to boost Canada's ability to produce vaccines are among over 100 research projects receiving new federal money.