Canada needs to step up to deliver
Sustained leadership, and a spirit of innovation and partnership today, can help forge the models of Crown-Indigenous relations that can carry Indigenous communities, sustainable natural resource management, healthy ecosystems, and vibrant local economies into the future.
It’s time to unleash Canada’s energy advantage
The greatest barrier to Canada seizing our energy advantage is today’s uncompetitive and complex regulatory and policy environment.
The Federal Court decision to overturn the single-use plastic ban is a step backwards for the planet—and our health
Canadians produce over three million tons of plastic pollution, with only nine per cent being recycled, and the rest filling up the country’s landfills, waste-reduction facilities, and the environment.
What do pandemics and climate change have in common? They disrupt supply chains
We absolutely need climate-resilient infrastructure and climate-resilient supply chains to prepare for climate change and extreme climate events.
Environmental advocates push back against ‘loopholes’ and ‘false solutions’ at UN climate conference
Tzeporah Berman from the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative says there is significant momentum behind the call to phase-out fossil fuels, but that she is watching for wording that would dilute that commitment if it makes it into the final text of COP28.
Transitioning to a low-carbon world is one of the great game-changing challenges of our generation, but Liberals have failed to sell it
In the absence of blood-sweat-and-tears leadership, there is a dangerous gap emerging between what’s needed and what we will achieve. It’s not too late to succeed. But without broad public support, it’s hard to succeed.
Catalyzing the opportunity of the North Pacific green corridor
The North Pacific Green Corridor presents a unique, sustainable model for future growth in green transport and trade that other jurisdictions can learn from and replicate.
Canada doesn’t have climate leaders: Bill Henderson
Re: “Will the real climate leaders stand up?” (The Hill Times, by Keith Brooks and Aly Hyder Ali, Nov. 27). We don’t have climate leaders. Canada has never met its (woefully inadequate) climate targets. We continue to do terrible damage to every future generation and the species with which we share creation. If we were […]
COP28 and climate science
Climate scientists are unanimously terrified by the speed at which things are moving, but also relieved that the crisis is finally getting some serious attention from both the public and the governments.
‘Unparalleled opportunity’: Public Policy Forum report urges Canada to take greater leadership on Paris Agreement, global carbon market
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says he would like to see new methane regulations to ensure that the oil and gas sector reduces greenhouse gas emissions by at least 75 per cent by 2030, ‘which are the most ambitious targets in the world.’
