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A leaked draft of a report on climate change and land use, which is now being debated in Geneva by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), states that it will be impossible to keep global temperatures at safe levels unless there is also a transformation in the way the world produces food and manages land.

When fires cause your community to have to evacuate, climate change ceases to be an abstract political issue and instead becomes something personal.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau received praise and drew protests on Friday, May 24, 2019, for his government's environmental policies as he met with one of the country's two remaining Liberal premiers.

Governments that fail to provide responses to the global climate crisis are doing so "at their own peril," former United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres said during a visit to Toronto. 

A pair of experts on global warming have thrown their support behind a new legal motion urging the National Energy Board should consider all climate-related impacts from the proposed Trans Mountain oil pipeline and tanker expansion in its review of the project.

After two weeks of bruising negotiations, officials from almost 200 countries agreed on Saturday, December 15, 2018, on universal, transparent rules that will govern efforts to cut emissions and curb global warming. Fierce disagreements on two other climate issues were kicked down the road for a year to help bridge a chasm of opinions on the best solutions.

In their announcement, Trudeau and his ministers will specify how much revenue they expect to collect from carbon pricing and subsequently return directly to people who live in each of the non-complying provinces. The fees would be collected through a federal tax on products that contribute to climate change such as gasoline.

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.

Are we in a genuine emergency? Say yes, Mr. Speaker, the world needs that truth.

Twelve anti-pipeline daredevils that rappelled from Vancouver’s Ironworkers’ Bridge in July and flew large flags protesting Trans Mountain have been told they will not be charged.

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.

A major upcoming international climate report won’t be assessing how the White House’s actions have hurt humanity’s chances of surviving climate change.

Global agriculture is being faced with a double challenge: feeding a growing population while adopting more environmentally-friendly practices.

The United Nations climate panel has announced plans to put human behaviour and consumption under the microscope for the first time since it was created in 1988.