Canada’s failure to cut emissions is coming back to bite us
Decades of rising emissions are saddling Canadians with ever-steeper climate targets. And columnist Barry Saxifrage has the receipts.
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Canada’s Top 10 emission changes show what’s worked and what’s failed
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, those who fail to learn from their climate polluting history are doomed to repeat it, writes columnist Barry Saxifrage.
Wrong-way Canada emitting more while our G7 peers clean up
Canada is the only G7 nation still emitting far above 1990 levels — and we are still heading in the wrong direction, writes columnist Barry Saxifrage.
Cities and communities across Canada taking a whole-community approach to climate action
Whether it’s wildfires, floods, droughts or coastal storms, communities are being asked to respond without having the basic knowledge or expertise on where to start.
High gas prices? Some Canadians are filling up for under 35 cents a ‘litre’
Columnist Barry Saxifrage breaks down how much it costs right now to power a car with gasoline versus electricity in cities across Canada.
How B.C.’s forests became a carbon-spewing liability
British Columbia's valuable carbon sink is gone. Its forests are hemorrhaging CO2. And the wood harvested from the province is now adding fuel to our climate crisis.
Transitioning means divorcing ourselves from fossil fuel economics
Can our assumptions about economic growth and our attachment to the systems that drive it be adapted, and where necessary, dismantled and replaced to prevent our multiple crises from worsening?
Climate snapshot: Driving off the climate cliff in Alberta versus Norway
Same number of new cars. Five times more CO2 to drive them around.
Climate snapshot: Bay du Nord
The International Energy Agency has clearly stated that no new sources of fossil fuels can be developed if humanity wants to keep the climate crisis within the guardrails set in the global Paris Agreement. The oil industry in Canada, however, shows no sign it plans to do what's needed voluntarily.
Climate breakdown is here. We’ve got to start living like it
Our personal choices will determine how fast we achieve net-zero emissions.
