Paris Agreement

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says Canada has no immediate plans to follow Europe's lead and increase its target for cutting emissions.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macron, long billed as kindred political spirits, agreed on Monday, April 16, 2018, to a fresh, fortified attack on climate change — hoping to keep a shared priority at the forefront of the global agenda despite Donald Trump's decision to quit the battlefield.

Scrapping Ontario's cap-and-trade system would make no sense, the governor of California said on Monday, April 16, 2018, as he weighed in on a key Ontario election issue.

Alberta's "hard cap” allows oilsands to grab an overwhelming share of our nation's climate budget. The big grab is growing wildly out of proportion to the share of Canada’s jobs and GDP.

Opposition to Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline has followed Justin Trudeau to sunny California, where protesters demonstrated on Friday outside the hotel where the prime minister was holding meetings with top state officials.

Two years after the historic Paris Agreement, world leaders and business officials gathered in France to find financial solutions in the fight against climate change. Among the major announcements of the day, the World Bank said it would no longer finance upstream oil and gas projects after 2019.

The themes raised at a recent workshop in Europe represent a great opportunity for the Bank of Canada and our financial market regulators to consider how Canadian financial sector giants are preparing for a clean energy future.

He may have just become head of the David Suzuki Foundation, but Stephen Cornish already has some clear and direct messages for governments and Canadians. There are some serious challenges ahead for all, but some solutions at hand. He also shares his thoughts about the controversies that follow the famous co-founder and namesake of the Vancouver-based environmental organization.

Imagine a future where all of Canada’s newspapers, TV, radio and online news outlets have decided to stop reporting on climate change. What if the only source of information you had about this global crisis is coming from a far-right website? That future may be closer than you think.

To an international diplomat, the irony is painful — the country that promised action on climate change is falling behind while the country that has spurned a major treaty on the issue is making progress.

Asked about the report on Tuesday, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna didn't say Canada won't increase its ambition by 2020, but neither did she say Canada would.

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

Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr is adding cabinet weight to a lobbying effort against proposed U.S. budget cuts to the popular and effective Energy Star program.

The apparent shift in U.S. policy left many observers stunned, but came after officials from Canada, the European Union and China insisted that the Paris treaty was irreversible and non-negotiable.

Bank disclosures on the economic threats and opportunities related to climate change are vital to managing global financial stability.