just transition

The Liberal Party’s climate plan includes commitments for a just transition and new funding to support fossil fuel-reliant provinces, but one oilpatch worker-led organization says the plan falls short of what is needed.

Canada’s National Observer asked federal Green Party Leader Annamie Paul about hot-button issues in the upcoming election, and what Canada needs to focus on to tackle the climate crisis.

Decarbonizing oil and gas production while letting market forces determine supply — not dismantling and phasing out — is still Ottawa’s fundamental approach to the national hydrocarbon sector, writes energy and climate journalist Markham Hislop.

The federal government is asking Canadians to provide feedback on potential elements of its proposed just transition legislation.

A majority of Canadians working in fossil fuels are interested in switching to jobs in the net-zero economy, but are worried about being left behind, according to a new poll.

The pandemic has reinforced the need for governments, investors and corporate leaders to direct capital more effectively at enterprises that offer solutions to combating the climate crisis, writes Martin Grosskopf, vice-president and portfolio manager at AGF Investments Inc.

As part of a series highlighting the work of young people in addressing the climate crisis, writer Patricia Lane interviews Danielle Pohl, a crime and climate change fighter who can often be found on roller skates.

​​​​​​​Racism is at the core of the extractive, exploitative and inequitable economic system we live under — a system that, if unchanged, is incompatible with a just transition to a clean energy future, writes Janelle Lapointe.

Budget 2021 leaves billions of subsidies to fossil fuels and the construction of Trans Mountain as a publicly owned pipeline, plus approvals for new exploration for oil and gas, in place, writes MP and former Green Party leader Elizabeth May.

The new federal budget’s focus on clean industry is the right one, write Clean Energy Canada's Sarah Petrevan and Mark Zacharias.

By ceding the climate ground to Trudeau, Jagmeet Singh and the NDP are allowing him to wrongly define what climate action looks like, writes Cameron Fenton, Canada team lead with 350.org.

The government says it will focus on building a clean economy in its 2021 budget. Establishing a just transition framework to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 is long overdue, writes Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood, a senior researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

A Just Transition Act needs to invest first and foremost in those communities bearing the brunt of both climate change and the fossil fuel industry, writes Cameron Fenton, Canada team lead with 350.org.

The Trudeau government needs to serve up more for fossil fuel industry workers who face an uncertain future if it wants to avoid a “major blowback,” says the co-chair of a federal advisory panel on the issue.

As Trans Mountain details its next six months of pipeline construction, Oil Change International states that we must stop extracting more oil.