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Evert Lindquist
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Explainer, Climate Solutions Reporting
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December 19th 2023
Green roofs are taking root across Canada, enhancing urban environments with heat moderation, stormwater catchment, carbon dioxide storage and perfect gardening conditions.
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More in today's news
The mayor of Canada's largest city has never owned a car, opting instead to bike or take transit around town. Now, one of Olivia Chow’s primary goals is to ensure Toronto’s public transit system is robust enough for anyone with a car-free lifestyle.
Abdul Matin Sarfraz
News, Politics
| December 19th 2023
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Released Monday by the University of Waterloo’s Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation, the report includes guidance for people on how to reduce the impact inevitable wildfires have on homes, as well as recommendations for communities.
Cloe Logan
News, Climate Solutions Reporting, Urban Indigenous Communities in Ottawa
| December 19th 2023
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Areas in northern Ontario being claimed for rights to critical minerals that may lie beneath ancestral and current territories of Indigenous Peoples.
Constance O'Connor
Opinion
| December 19th 2023
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Regulators around the world are increasingly forcing them to disclose their carbon emissions, along with other key climate change considerations such as how much financial risk they face.
Ian Bickis
News
| December 18th 2023
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Canada's spy service warns that dramatic shifts caused by climate change and the ensuing fractious upheaval around the world could leave Canada vulnerable, imperilling its food and water supplies, energy security and Arctic sovereignty.
Jim Bronskill
News, Politics
| December 18th 2023
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Flooding is driving millions of people to move out of their homes, limiting growth in some prospering communities and accelerating the decline of others, according to a new study that details how climate change and flooding are transforming where Americans live.
Michael Phillis, Camille Fassett
News, US News
| December 18th 2023
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Nuclear energy made a big splash at the UN climate meeting in Dubai with a declaration by 22 countries calling for a tripling of nuclear energy by 2050. It seems like an impressive and urgent call to arms. On closer inspection, however, the numbers don’t work out.
Sharon Squassoni
News
| December 19th 2023
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I’ll start by letting you in on a little open secret: This year (and in past years) the only Canadian media outlet to send reporters to COP, aside from the CBC, was Canada’s National Observer.
John Woodside
Opinion
| December 19th 2023
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From the archives
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Lisa Pertoso, Paul Razzell
Humour
| December 21st 2022
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