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Lawyers for Saskatchewan and its allies warn that Ottawa's justification for imposing a carbon price on consumers will erode provincial sovereignty under the Constitution.

Doug Ford's government says that newly-proposed climate change policies are aiming to simplify rules for businesses so that they can focus on reducing carbon pollution, instead of being swamped in red tape.

Premier Doug Ford ratcheted up his rhetoric on Ottawa's climate change plan on Monday, January 21, 2019, warning that the carbon tax will plunge the country into recession — a claim disputed by experts and the federal government.

Canada's largest business group has endorsed a carbon tax as the most efficient way for the country to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

The city of Montreal is getting a boost from philanthropists to forge an action plan for carbon neutrality by 2050.

British Columbia is poised to announce its plan to fight climate change while it accommodates the carbon polluting liquefied natural gas industry.

Canadians produce more greenhouse gas emissions per person than any other G20 economy, according to a new analysis.

The federal government argues it has jurisdiction to impose a carbon tax in Saskatchewan because climate change is a matter of national concern.

Canada's natural resources minister says the environment and the economy go hand-in-hand after he toured the site of a new liquefied natural gas venture in British Columbia, days after the United Nations warned more needs to be done to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

David McLaughlin of the International Institute for Sustainable Development provides key citations from the special report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to show how Canada already is, and increasingly will be, affected by global warming and climate change.

The Ontario Conservative government is musing about introducing its own plan to make polluters pay, just as it is rejecting the federal government's efforts to do the same thing,

Carbon pollution would have to be cut by 45 per cent by 2030 – compared with a 20 per cent cut under the 2C pathway – and come down to zero by 2050, compared with 2075 for 2C. This would require carbon prices that are three to four times higher than for a 2C target. But the costs of doing nothing would be far higher.

The world is going to blow past its most stringent climate goal in less than a quarter century unless the political will erupts to act faster and more directly to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

Neil Swart never thought the data he collected in the Antarctic Ocean 13 years ago would lead to such a critical conclusion.

"Stopping us from protecting our people, our jobs and economy or our planet is like trying to stop a mother from protecting her child," said State Attorney General Xavier Becerra.