climate policy

As much as COVID-19 is a large-scale human tragedy, no doubt science tells us this is just a warning compared to the existential risks global warming poses to our civilization in the years and decades to come, writes Christian Burgsmüller, the European Union's chargé d’affaires to Canada.

After five days of nail-biting, anxiety-inducing ballot counting in half a dozen key swing states, Joe Biden has been declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election.

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

“The Canadian government needs to stop bending over backwards to the big oil lobby and oil-friendly provincial governments at the expense of public health and action on the climate emergency,” says Environmental Defence.

Climate lobbying watchdog claims US oil giant met EC officials in run-up to policy

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is calling on industries, citizens, and Indigenous groups to help shape the future of Canada's climate policy.

“We need to grapple with the reality that we’re not going to meet the goals that we’ve talked about.”

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.

Canada, we need to change the channel, the authors write. First in a series about Canada's climate policy strengths.

In his exit press conference on Friday, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull put climate policy right at the heart of his demise. He said it was difficult for his governing coalition to agree on any plan to reduce emissions, blaming “bitterly entrenched views that are actually sort of more ideological views than views based, as I say, in engineering and economics.”

Fully 79 per cent of Canadians believe we “face a catastrophe if we fail to do more.”

Confused about Alberta's complicated new 2030 climate policy? I certainly was. Here's a visual tour that puts it all in perspective…

It's time for Canadian oil sands companies to be honest with their shareholders about what climate policy action means for their business models.

Mexican envoy Francisco Suarez said that under the Harper Conservatives, Canada lagged behind both Mexico and the U.S. on environmental policy.