climate finance

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the remarks at the G20 and added the tax is among the world's strongest but "an easy political target" in Canada.

Nature is being pushed to the brink as logging, mining and the relentless burning of fossil fuels destroy ecosystems — but even while acknowledging the problem, countries negotiating at COP16 still failed to agree on how to pay for conservation efforts.

Since rich countries promised $650 million to the so-called loss-and-damage fund last year, new pledges have dried up.

The to-do list of global priorities has grown for this year’s edition of the World Economic Forum’s gabfest of business, political and other elites in the Alpine snows of Davos, Switzerland, which runs Tuesday through Friday.

Regulators around the world are increasingly forcing them to disclose their carbon emissions, along with other key climate change considerations such as how much financial risk they face.

Canada’s image at the world’s signature climate negotiations could be complicated by infighting, some observers fear, as two of the federal government's ardent critics at the provincial level look to capture attention at the United Nations climate summit known as COP28.

New data suggest wealthy countries may belatedly be providing a promised $100 billion in climate-related aid. But they’ve eroded trust in the process.

World leaders and decision-makers must understand the climate crisis is much more than an environmental challenge — it poses a formidable threat to the rights and well-being of children, particularly girls.

In 2023, watch as we build a climate-resilient economy that puts people over profit.

Climate transition is on track to be a historic multitrillion-dollar investment opportunity and a business disruption that will reshape whole economies — Canada’s included, write Keren Perla and Chad Park.

Canada is announcing millions of dollars in new climate finance for developing countries. But advocates warn symbolic donations are no replacement for the new financial tools delegates are negotiating at COP27.

“We must acknowledge a harsh truth: there is no adapting to a growing number of catastrophic events causing enormous suffering around the world,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres says to delegates as COP27 begins in Egypt.

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The bank plan met opposition after environmental protesters disrupted its annual shareholder meeting in Manchester earlier this month.

“Today is one of the highest insults I've ever received as a chief,” Wet'suwet'en hereditary Chief Namoks said Thursday after RBC cancelled the in-person portion of its meeting at the last minute. “You’ve seen the violence (on Wet'suwet'en territory); I think today's insult was bigger.”