climate justice

As part of a series highlighting the work of young people in addressing the climate crisis, writer Patricia Lane interviews Danielle Pohl, a crime and climate change fighter who can often be found on roller skates.

​​​​​​​Racism is at the core of the extractive, exploitative and inequitable economic system we live under — a system that, if unchanged, is incompatible with a just transition to a clean energy future, writes Janelle Lapointe.

Patricia Lane introduces us to Samantha Lin, who works with the David Suzuki Foundation supporting young climate activists pressuring cities to lower their carbon footprint.

By ceding the climate ground to Trudeau, Jagmeet Singh and the NDP are allowing him to wrongly define what climate action looks like, writes Cameron Fenton, Canada team lead with 350.org.

The U.S. president should spend more money and raise taxes on the wealthy and corporations, writes Julian Brave NoiseCat.

Public health research has shown that climate change is amplifying the health disparities that poorer people already face as a result of social conditions, like substandard housing or jobs with poor working conditions.

The government says it will focus on building a clean economy in its 2021 budget. Establishing a just transition framework to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 is long overdue, writes Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood, a senior researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Julian Brave NoiseCat, vice-president of progressive think tank Data For Progress, joined Conversations host and Canada’s National Observer founder and editor-in-chief Linda Solomon Wood for a discussion on grassroots political organizing.

Lawyers for Climate Justice believe their colleagues should consider taking on pro bono work where they can help with efforts to cut carbon pollution.

By consciously making space for women in the green recovery from COVID-19, we’ll find new pathways for fixing the economic and ecological imbalances with which our society is reckoning, write Jesse Firempong and Lydie Padilla.

Meet Vanessa Corkal, a sustainable development researcher who's not afraid to ask the big questions.

Leaders are happy to set targets for decades ahead but flinch when immediate action is needed, the teen climate activist says.

Sharmarke Dubow is a former refugee who fled Somalia when conflict over resource shortages led to civil war. He is now an elected city councillor working for the people of Victoria, B.C.

The 15 young Canadians seeking to hold the federal government to account for climate action failings will not get the chance to do so in a courtroom, a federal justice said on Tuesday.

They got the world’s attention in 2019. But when will they see the change they’re demanding?