Steven Guilbeault

Friday’s cabinet shuffle is widely seen as an attempt by Trudeau to plug the holes before the Liberal ship capsizes, but nonetheless there are positive signals for the climate concerned.

The federal government estimates Canada’s planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions are going down, but hitting its 2030 climate targets will require much larger reductions.

New rules to transition Canada's power grids to be clean by 2035 have been significantly watered down, allowing fossil fuels to stay on the grid for decades to come thanks to freshly introduced loopholes — a trade off for reliability feds say.

Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is catching flak from opposition MPs after Canada’s Impact Assessment Agency decided a massive thermal coal mine expansion in Alberta does not require a federal assessment.

The 2035 target is the smallest possible increase, given Canada’s current target is a 40 to 45 per cent reduction by 2030. Few outside the oil patch seem happy with it.

On Dec. 6, the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC) decided Coalspur’s Vista Coal mine expansion in west-central Alberta will not be subject to a federal impact assessment.

Investment in the energy transition could bring sustainable, inclusive prosperity to Canadians. 

A new analysis by the Independent Electricity System Operator looking at upcoming regulations around restrictions on emissions from electricity generation found that Ontario would have to add twice as much new generation as it is already planning, which is "not feasible" in that time frame.

In South Korea as countries negotiate a new treaty to address plastic pollution, Canada joined a powerful negotiating bloc of over 100 countries working to ensure the treaty includes a global target to reduce virgin plastics to sustainable levels — a measure Big Plastic is fighting tooth and nail.

Alberta is taking the federal government to court, saying Ottawa has failed to follow through on what Premier Danielle Smith calls necessary changes to a law governing resource development.

Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says Alberta's plan to make greenhouse gas emissions data the property of the provincial government could lead to oil and gas companies breaking federal laws.

Announcing an upcoming motion under her Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act on Tuesday, Smith said the government plans to challenge the cap in court when or if it becomes law, and that it will take the steps necessary to give the province exclusive authority and ownership of emissions data, ban federal employees from designated oil and gas facilities, and more.

Rich countries agreeing to provide at least US$300 billion to developing countries by 2035 for climate action is a “band-aid on a bullet wound,” according to advocates, following the stunning failure of COP29 to land an ambitious climate finance goal.

As the annual climate change negotiations enter their final days with countries still deeply divided over key issues, Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault called host country Azerbaijan's lack of ambition "deplorable" for the disappointing options on the table.

An analysis of the delegate list conducted by Canada's National Observer shows Big Oil lobbyists from Canada are out in full force to influence the annual UN climate change summit in their favour. After years of derailing negotiations, climate advocates say it's time to bar fossil fuel companies from the meetings for good.