The death panel report is a grotesquerie, cataloging just how miserably unfair climate change is to the vulnerable. In addition to failures in preparation and response, the coroners found that most of the 619 climate victims in B.C. were elders and neighbours with medical conditions, typically living in “socially or materially deprived neighbourhoods.”

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It’s crucial that we don’t accelerate deeper into danger, like we did after the last recession.

Just days after Prince Edward Island pledged to make the province’s entire school bus fleet all-electric, a network of parents has launched to convince other provincial governments to follow suit.

The United Nations climate talks went into record overtime and then ended in failure on Sunday. The countries gathered in Madrid for COP25 were unable to agree on the main objectives of the negotiations and kicked the most important decisions down the road to next year’s meeting in Glasgow, Scotland. 

COP25 managed to underperform even the lowest expectations heading to Madrid. And Australia, Brazil and the United States were the main obstructionists

You’ve been hearing there's a global climate summit happening in Madrid this week. If you’re wondering what these international negotiations are and whether they have been making any progress, you’ve come to the right place.