The salient responses to Trump’s threats reveal once again that no Canadian government takes seriously the unfolding transformation of the Earth’s climate.
We can’t address climate change without decarbonizing sectors like steel, cement, aluminum and oil & gas. But decarbonizing production of these goods raises costs (at least for now), and in these heavily traded sectors that risks shifting emissions to countries that don’t have ambitious climate policies — a phenomenon known as carbon leakage.
Private jet flights have soared in recent years, with the resulting climate-heating emissions rising by 50%, the most comprehensive global analysis to date has revealed.
Canada will need its own plan to reduce emissions to avoid European Union tariffs — and our existing carbon pricing system already does that at the lowest possible cost.
More than 230 million litres of oil were collected across nine provinces in 2022. Fortunately, much of that dirty engine oil is recycled by organizations such as British Columbia’s Interchange Recycling.
A united far right would mean significantly increased visibility for its attempts to portray climate change mitigation as an ideological, unnecessary, and costly attack on Europeans’ way of life.
A groundbreaking, global survey of more than 700 reporters and editors from 102 countries shows that nearly 40 per cent have faced threats for their work, while more than one in ten have been confronted with physical violence.
If our present path doesn't change drastically, the science seems to suggest we are likely to experience a collapse of civilization — and we'll have nobody but ourselves to blame.