climate emergency

As temperatures rise, one family hopes to establish the world’s northernmost coffee plantation.

Titled “An Urgent Call to the BC Government to Confront the Climate Emergency,” the letter’s signatories include the Union of BC Indian Chiefs, Stand.earth, the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, and other faith, labour, youth, senior and community groups.

Malaika Collette spent the election campaign in high gear. She spent hours texting voters and urging them to support candidates identified as climate champions by 350 Canada.

The government and mining sector are betting on Canadian mineral deposits such as cobalt to help Canada's decarbonization efforts. But the country receives poor marks for enforcing corporate accountability and protecting human rights, writes Gabriela Jiménez.

A global survey finds most 16- to 25-year-olds worry a lot about the future, and many feel failed by their governments on climate action.

As we enter the final days of this election, is it my strong conviction that any convincing climate plan must also be tied to a compelling plan to tackle inequality and enhance tax fairness, writes Seth Klein.

COP26, the United Nations climate conference, sets the agenda on climate action around the world — and this year's event is critical in bringing planetary heating under control.

Government directly controls only a small part of our national emissions, and even large government subsidies to households and firms are repeatedly shown by leading researchers to have but a small effect, writes Mark Jaccard.

Analysis shows the future is bleak for the fossil fuel industry with trillions of dollars of assets at stake.

We are in a climate emergency, and Canada's dominant parties remain fixated, for the most part, on market-based “solutions” inherently unable to meet the task at hand at the speed and scale required, writes columnist Seth Klein.

The Parliament we elect Sept. 20 will hold our climate fate in its hands, writes columnist Seth Klein.

What should we demand from our leaders and political parties during the federal election? Support for the Paris Agreement on climate change and the upcoming international meeting on climate change in Glasgow and followup meetings, writes Joel Burcat.

The forest fires raging across northern Ontario and much of the rest of the world are another stark and frightening reminder of the climate emergency that fossil fuels create, writes Dianne Saxe.

In Canadian media outlets, the term "climate change" overtook "global warming" in 2002, a gap that has since widened.

As the crisis manifests, it’s time the provincial government gave its climate plan a reboot, writes columnist Seth Klein.