Green New Deal

Eight candidates, including Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, don't even have climate plans to rank on the list.

Seeking to re-frame climate policy as a matter of economic justice, not just emissions targets, the party came out of its recent convention with an aggressive policy position that's likely to influence federal Leader Jagmeet Singh in the coming election.

Several hundred people helped kick off a national tour for a Green New Deal in Canada at the Bloor Street United Church in Toronto on Tuesday, one of roughly 150 town halls to be held across the country ahead of the federal election.

The role of government subsidies and direct investment in increasing climate pollution in the oil and gas sector has rightly gotten a lot of attention. But transportation, the second largest source of GHG pollution in Canada, must not be ignored.

Scientists have warned that governments have about 11 years to enact large-scale climate legislation to stop global warming

The U.S. is a hotbed of climate science denial when compared with other countries, with international polling finding a significant number of Americans do not believe human-driven climate change is occurring. Out of 23 countries, only Saudi Arabia and Indonesia had higher proportion of doubters

American progressive circles are abuzz right now with the Green New Deal. But it’s hard to understand what that means for Canada without understanding what the old New Deal meant for America, it’s country of birth... and why Canadian progressives shouldn’t adopt a plan rooted in America’s past.

“You can’t solve climate change by just checking a box.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has delivered an impassioned defence of the Green New Deal, the ambitious Democratic proposal aimed at fighting climate change, after a Republican congressman attacked the resolution as an elitist plan he claimed had been created by out-of-touch “rich liberals from New York of California.”

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is telling Americans that he’ll make “defeating climate change our nation’s No. 1 priority.”

If the NDP want to turn their fortunes around by October, their best (and maybe only) hope is to bring the bold vision of a Green New Deal to Canada.

The plan would boost the U.S. economy and eliminate fossil fuel use in ten years.

Republicans call it a "socialist manifesto," environmental groups hail it, and some say it doesn’t go far enough.

Democrats launched a sweeping plan Thursday to transform the U.S. economy to combat climate change and create thousands of jobs in renewable energy, signalling its likely elevation as a central campaign issue in 2020 despite President Donald Trump's failure to mention climate change in his State of the Union address.