climate emergency

2019 was a wild year for the climate — and the English lexicon.

Greenpeace activists scaled the European Union’s new headquarters in Brussels on Thursday, December 12, 2019, and unfurled a huge banner warning of a “climate emergency,” hours before the bloc’s leaders gather for a summit focused on plans to combat global warming.

Much of the public debate about energy this election has been limited, according to several experts, focusing on how to decrease emissions without considering seriously changing the foundation of Canada's oil-dependent economy.

Members of Yukon's legislature have voted to declare a climate emergency.

New data shows how fossil fuel companies have driven climate crisis despite industry knowing dangers

The Liberals and New Democrats are both making promises that would need some collaboration with the provinces to become reality, at a time when powerful premiers have made it clear they see a relationship with Ottawa that is headed in a very different direction.

With Trump expected to skip the UN climate summit, the question will be: what’s possible if the most powerful nation is pulling away from action?

The Manitoba Liberals say they will declare a climate emergency and ban single-use plastics if the party is elected on Tuesday, September 10, 2019.

Scientists have linked the increasing number and ferocity of wildfires to global heating, but you’d never know that if you depended on Canada’s corporate media.

While we loudly condemn the Maxime Berniers of the world, compassion may be the most appropriate response to its Christopher Caldwells.

While their voices may have reached media networks, the power of their collective talent has not been fully harnessed. It is imperative we act now to integrate young people.

In an argument put forward to scrap the clean fuel standard, Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer claimed it was ‘a secret fuel tax’ that would increase the cost of gas by four cents.

The deputy Conservative leader shared an article denying there's a link between climate change and extreme weather, then deleted it after a scientist responded. In an interview with National Observer, she says she believes in climate change and reducing emissions.

Taken as a whole, this project would thus further alter the terrestrial and marine ecosystems on which life on Earth depends, even as UN-mandated experts have recently confirmed an "unprecedented" and accelerating rate of extinction of species, thus eroding "the very foundations of our economies, our livelihoods, food security, health and quality of life around the world."

The change won’t be pretty, but it must be done. Going forward, we must reward sustainable activity only.