COP27

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says Canada is issuing a challenge to the rest of the world to expand the use of carbon pricing in the fight against greenhouse gas emissions.

This editorial calling for action from world leaders on the climate crisis is published today by more than 30 media organizations in more than 20 countries

The Global Shield “is aimed at strengthening insurance, disaster protection financing, providing support for loss and damage, and financial mechanisms for slow onset climate events,” said Ghana’s finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta.

At COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Quebec’s economy minister Pierre Fitzgibbon confirmed to Canada’s National Observer a massive LNG project in his province won’t be revived, despite earlier reports it was again under consideration. 

It's half-way time at the U.N. climate talks in Egypt, with negotiators still working on draft agreements before ministers arrive next week to push for a substantial deal to fight climate change.

The United Nations says it is investigating allegations of misconduct by Egyptian police officers providing security at this year's international climate talks.

She has pedaled thousands of miles from Sweden to Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to deliver a simple message: Stop climate change.

African nations want to increase how much money they receive from schemes that offset greenhouse gas emissions and are looking for ways to address the issue at U.N. climate talks currently underway in Egypt.

This 25-year-old and her young colleagues at Act4Food Act4Change have organized more than 160,000 people from over 100 countries to call on decision-makers to change our food systems so people are put first. 

Hundreds of fossil fuel lobbyists including at least a dozen from Canada are in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt for this year’s United Nations’ climate conference, a data analysis from Corporate Accountability, Corporate Europe Observatory and Global Witness reveals. 

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.

Lobbyists for Canada's meat and dairy industries are showing up with unprecedented visibility at the COP27 climate conference now underway in Egypt. The industries have at least one representative on the official Canadian delegation, a position that gives easy access to negotiators and closed-door meetings.

Reality check — as the world embarks on a fourth decade of climate meetings and promises, all three major greenhouse gases are accelerating upwards, unchecked. And Canada …

At the 2022 United Nations climate change conference, COP27, each country must set out what it has done and intends to do to limit the increase of the global temperature to 1.5 C.

The United Nations is cracking down on greenwashing. Former environment minister Catherine McKenna is leading the charge.