Paris Agreement

Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson appears ready to deal with opposition parties to secure the votes he needs to get his net-zero legislation through Parliament next year.

There will only be a “relatively modest impact” on global temperature rise if less developed countries don’t cut their emissions for now — compared to much greater consequences if developed countries delay their own decarbonization, scientists have found.

Five years after it was passed, the Paris agreement may finally be changing the climate on climate change.

The environment and climate change minister's remarks come after former UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon urged Canada to “demonstrate greater leadership in the collective effort to tackle climate change.”

The stark message from António Guterres follows a year of global upheaval, with the coronavirus pandemic causing governments to shut down whole countries for months at a time, while wildfires, hurricanes and powerful storms have scarred the globe.

The president of the Canadian Labour Congress says setting climate targets will have to go hand-in-hand with developing a strategy around protecting workers.

If we want to get to net zero by 2050, we first have to get to roughly half as many emissions in 2030 as in 2010, Elizabeth May says.

Ontario may not meet its greenhouse gas emission targets because they're not a "cross-government priority," the province's auditor general said on Wednesday, November 18, 2020, casting doubt on a key environmental pledge made by Premier Doug Ford.

U.S. president-elect Joe Biden’s win gives the globe a better chance of averting climate catastrophe, but major obstacles remain.

The multibillion-dollar venture between Gazoduq and GNL Quebec would entail natural gas, extracted from fracking in northern B.C. and Alberta, being piped through existing pipelines all the way to eastern Ontario.

After five days of nail-biting, anxiety-inducing ballot counting in half a dozen key swing states, Joe Biden has been declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election.

Each September, Ashala Daniel sows her fields with winter rye, hoping the seed takes root before the first snows fall. It’s a ritual that could help save the planet.

Leaders are happy to set targets for decades ahead but flinch when immediate action is needed, the teen climate activist says.

Trump administration set U.S. withdrawal in motion a year ago but it didn’t take effect until Nov. 4.

On Nov. 4, the day after the election, the United States will earn a dubious distinction: It will become the only country in the world to formally exit the Paris Agreement.