Wednesday, April 2, 2025

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2024 was the year of climate crisis: so how did it fall off the political agenda?

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was clear: to keep a habitable planet, and to ensure the survival of human civilization, greenhouse gas emissions must peak and begin to decline rapidly ‘at the latest before 2025.’ The clock is ticking, but politicians are not leaders. We look at polls and rush to distract the citizenry with shiny trinkets.

Turning the corner

In Canada the meager momentum of climate mitigation is stalling out. As the gloom of winter sets in it’s easy to be depressed, but in defeat there are seeds of future mitigation success if we wake up and get serious about what is at stake.