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As international biodiversity talks get underway in Colombia for COP16, political turmoil at home is jeopardizing Canada’s nature protection plans.

A proposed income tax change to crack down on cross-border tax avoidance could unintentionally hike power bills and natural gas rates for consumers, Electricity Canada is warning.

Canada’s image at the world’s signature climate negotiations could be complicated by infighting, some observers fear, as two of the federal government's ardent critics at the provincial level look to capture attention at the United Nations climate summit known as COP28.

New data suggest wealthy countries may belatedly be providing a promised $100 billion in climate-related aid. But they’ve eroded trust in the process.

If a single mother with a newborn baby starts looking for city-subsidized housing in Canada's largest urban centre today, she might see her child enter high school before they find a new home.

The activist group alleges that Cargill, the nation’s largest privately-held company and the world’s largest agribusiness company, has failed to keep pledges on eliminating deforestation from its supply chains.

A high-tech industry coalition in the United States is urging President Joe Biden to take a hard line against Canada's approach to digital services.

Government support for fossil fuel companies amid huge profits is a "roadblock" to tackling the climate crisis, the International Energy Agency says.

António Guterres says growing north and south divide is ‘morally unacceptable’ and dangerous.

Extended drought conditions in several Mediterranean countries, a heat wave last week that reached northern Germany and high fuel costs for aircraft needed to fight wildfires have heightened concerns across Europe this summer.

Canada's carbon pricing system is disproportionately hard on Indigenous communities and small businesses and not hard enough on the biggest emitters, the federal environment commissioner said on Tuesday, April 26, 2022, in a new audit.

Leaders of the world's biggest economies on Saturday, October 30, 2021, endorsed a global minimum tax on corporations, a linchpin of new international tax rules aimed at blunting the edge of fiscal paradises amid skyrocketing profits of some multinational businesses.

Scaling up international climate financing is critical to the success of COP26 and Canada is playing a key role.

As the Trudeau government is forced to explain delays rolling out COVID-19 vaccines, some of the world's economic and health leaders are warning of catastrophic financial consequences if poorer countries are shortchanged on vaccinations.

The Americans and Europeans have sprinted ahead, and even the coal-choked Chinese economy is about to pass us by, says Barry Saxifrage.