Paris Agreement

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.

British Columbia is a key cork in the climate change bottle, keeping a giant share of the planet’s carbon underground, writes U.S. environmentalist, journalist, and book author Bill McKibben.

"America is fully in the Paris agreement. There's only one man that dropped out," Arnold Schwarzenegger said of Donald Trump on Tuesday. "America did not drop out."

No matter what obstacles arise during negotiations, veteran diplomat Jennifer MacIntyre says it's important to "just keep talking."

G20 leaders managed to bring U.S. President Donald Trump on side against protectionist trade policies, but he still stands alone when it comes to resisting action on climate change.