COP26

Negotiations at COP26 are down to the wire, however Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault says an agreement on loss and damage funding for developing nations hurt by global warming is in sight.

Speaking at a "people's plenary" meeting Friday, youth, farmers, trade unionists, environmental groups, and disability and gender rights advocates criticized the UN climate change conference in Glasgow for being among the most exclusive negotiations so far.

A pro nuclear energy campaigner confronted Canada’s new environment minister at the UN climate change conference in Glasgow Wednesday and tried to grill him about the anti-nuclear stance he held before entering politics.

Global activists are calling out world leaders Friday for deferring to the fossil fuel industry and courting catastrophe on the last day of COP26, the UN climate summit in Glasgow.

India faces a difficult choice that will have consequences for the world.

The Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance, which Quebec joined last week, was led by Costa Rica and Denmark, and now also includes France, Greenland, Ireland, Sweden, Wales and Quebec as “core” members.

Every day around noon, the smell of grilled beef and roasted venison wafts through the lines of delegates attending the COP26 climate conference as they queue for lunch. Yet even as hundreds flock to the burgers and venison pasties on offer, some attendees wonder if meat — a big emitter worldwide — should be on the menu. 

Canada was among 19 countries promising to eliminate greenhouse-gas emissions from some international shipping routes at the COP26 climate talks in Scotland on Wednesday, November 10, 2021.

The group, which has been building tiny houses in Blue River, B.C., since 2017 in an attempt to block the pipeline, was presented with the Carole Geller Human Rights Award on Tuesday.

Countries gathered for the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, have for the first time agreed that the world must transition to more sustainable farming practices if we are to mitigate climate change and prevent millions of people from going hungry.

An early draft of the final agreement to come out of COP26 surfaced Wednesday morning, including for the first time an acknowledgment of fossil fuels, stronger language on the Paris Agreement target of holding global warming to 1.5 C, and calls for more climate financing to be delivered to developing countries.

Canada is clearly playing an important role, not as a political powerhouse, but as a genuine contributor to the sense of progress, made all the more significant given our substantial oil production and export economy, writes Bruce Lourie.

The United Kingdom wants to close COP26 with the rules of the Paris Agreement finalized. But a thorny section called Article 6 has pitted countries against each other for years.

The group argues the Drive Carbon Neutral program is greenwashing, and is therefore tricking customers into participating in an initiative with false claims, which it says goes against the Competition Act.

Alberta's top representative to the global climate conference taking place in Scotland says Alberta is not alone when it comes to feeling pressure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.