climate targets

We’re excited by Canada’s increased climate ambition, but as young professionals, we’re also terrified for the future, write Christie McLeod and Gareth Gransaull — because, frankly, our new target is just not good enough.

There’s a big difference between saying you’ve already made climate progress and actually making progress. Nowhere is that more obvious than in Australia. 

Budget 2021 leaves billions of subsidies to fossil fuels and the construction of Trans Mountain as a publicly owned pipeline, plus approvals for new exploration for oil and gas, in place, writes MP and former Green Party leader Elizabeth May.

Under existing climate policies, electric vehicles could wipe out the use of two million barrels a day of diesel and petrol.

Canada's environment minister has proposed changes to the bill that would make the federal government more accountable as it strives to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. 

"We aren’t the U.S., and implementing their solutions doesn’t get us as far," writes energy-worker-turned-environmental-poet Ross Belot.

The former leader of Canada's federal Green Party discussed climate change solutions, the road to COP26 and the urgency of the climate emergency in an interview with Canada's National Observer.

None of Canada’s big five banks were founding signatories of the UN-convened Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) that promised April 21 to align investment portfolios with science-based climate targets starting in 2030.

John Kerry made the remark as the U.S. officially returned to the climate agreement on Friday, 107 days after it left under former president Donald Trump.

Now that we know where we want to go on climate change, James Riley says, the real question becomes: How do we get there? 

Alberta's "hard cap” allows oilsands to grab an overwhelming share of our nation's climate budget. The big grab is growing wildly out of proportion to the share of Canada’s jobs and GDP.

CAPP told the federal government this summer that carbon tax revenues from oil and gas should be pumped back into the industry in order to "not only preserve, but enhance" the sector.

Both Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall and Green Party leader Elizabeth May criticized the environment minister's weekend climate commitments.

A new report shows British Columbia's carbon emissions are rising, but the government insists that accusations it has trailed on climate action are "false."