World leaders meet to ‘reconcile humanity with nature’
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appeared by videoconference at the One Planet Summit and announced a $55-million contribution to a UN fund to protect against land degradation.
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Momentum builds for global climate action
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.
EU leaders talk all night and agree to reduce emissions
European Union leaders reached a hard-fought deal on Friday, December 11, 2020, to cut the bloc’s net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by the end of the decade compared with 1990 levels, avoiding a hugely embarrassing deadlock ahead of a U.N. climate meeting this weekend.
The glaring problem with Canada’s solar sector and how to fix it
Where do all these dead solar panels go, and what is Canada doing, if anything, to plan for the tsunami of e-waste to come?
Canada-Britain trade negotiations in final stages as year-end tariff deadline looms
Canada and Britain say they are in the final stages of negotiating a new trade deal before a Dec. 31 deadline.
Greens choose Toronto's Annamie Paul as new leader
Green Party of Canada members have chosen Toronto's Annamie Paul as their new leader.
Most solar manufacturers claim their panels will last for about 25 years. That means the solar e-waste glut is coming.
Most solar manufacturers claim their panels will last for about 25 years. That means the solar e-waste glut is coming.
EU rallies Canada to join in funding help for WHO
The European Union is planning a major pledging conference early next month to help fill the World Health Organization's funding gaps, and it expects Canada to play a key role.
Make 2020 the year of peak car
Car sales are declining globally and the real “peak car” moment (when the number of vehicles in operation stops increasing and starts a permanent decline) could also be near.
Greenpeace activists scale building where EU leaders gathering on climate
Greenpeace activists scaled the European Union’s new headquarters in Brussels on Thursday, December 12, 2019, and unfurled a huge banner warning of a “climate emergency,” hours before the bloc’s leaders gather for a summit focused on plans to combat global warming.
Trudeau government exploring mining crucial minerals for US market
The Trudeau government is digging for intelligence on the role Canada's mining sector could play in providing the United States and other key trading partners with crucial minerals and metals — from cobalt to tellurium — considered building blocks of the new economy.
As COP25 host, Spain offers a just green vision
The progressive bloc set to rule Europe’s fifth-largest economy has endorsed a Green New Deal but risks fueling a resurgent fascist movement.
Mark Carney becomes UN special envoy on 'climate action'
Bank of England governor Mark Carney, who previously served as Canada's top central banker, will be taking on a new role as the United Nations' special envoy on climate action and climate finance.
Threat to fish biodiversity blamed on government: scientists
Canada has made disappointingly little progress in preserving the variety of life in its oceans largely because of a contradiction in the federal department that's supposed to protect it, says a group of senior scientists.