Climate Solutions Reporting

Climate Solutions Reporting Project produces written stories, podcasts, and newsletters about Canada's action and inaction in fighting global heating, as well as the impact of environmental degradation and solutions on people and communities. We offer these stories free of charge thanks to supporters and collaborators, including individual philanthropists and foundations. Read more about the project here.

534 Articles

Cities across Canada consider maximum temperature policy for rental units

More cities are considering similar policies as climate change continues to make extreme heat more common. Hamilton is set to put in place a similar bylaw this summer; View Royal on Vancouver Island is also waiting to hear back from staff; and the city of Toronto was instructed to study and report its findings on maximum temperature requirements last summer.

Cloe Logan

June 20th 2024

Their land, their choice: When economic reconciliation and climate justice conflict

The Indigenous Loan Guarantee Program will be sector agnostic, allowing Indigenous nations to choose their path to economic prosperity. How might it conflict with the climate crisis?

Matteo Cimellaro

June 19th 2024

Know the difference between heat dome and heat wave?

There's no doubt the weather across much of Eastern Canada this week is very, very hot. But is the region experiencing a heat wave or a heat dome, and what is the difference between the two?

Morgan Lowrie

June 18th 2024

How 100,000 trees will help shade Vancouver from extreme heat

On Wednesday, Vancouver city council passed a motion instructing city staff to create a timeline and budget to plant 100,000 native and climate-resilient trees across the city. The motion specifies that the trees will be planted in neighbourhoods that have less tree coverage, which is shown to cause warmer temperatures.

Cloe Logan

June 14th 2024

A ghost pipeline rears up in northern B.C.

After nearly a decade without progress, the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission Project appears set to begin construction this summer after the B.C. energy regulator created a legal loophole to allow the project to proceed.

Marc Fawcett-Atkinson

June 14th 2024

New report urges better planning to avoid sunk cost on gas lines

Even though the clean energy transition is underway in many parts of the country, the Canadian Climate Institute notes that gas networks are still expanding and no province has mandated a start to transitioning to an electric system.

Cloe Logan

June 13th 2024

One man's phone trash, another ape's treasure

Though the public's perception of recycling has taken a hit recently, a Toronto Zoo program that recovers valuable metals and other materials from collected electronics has quietly managed to find success — both here and in Africa.

Abdul Matin Sarfraz

June 13th 2024

How a Vancouver advocate tells the story of climate change

Chloe Fraser, a 23-year-old Vancouver writer, was named a top environmentalist under 25 for her accredited university course that teaches participants about the power of stories to motivate engagement in climate issues.

Opinion

Youth climate action

June 12th 2024

Research is clear — as smog recedes, the oceans get hotter

The decline in smog-causing aerosol particles resulting from China's ambitious cleanup efforts are an unlikely culprit for recent extreme heat waves in the Pacific. Scientists are grappling with the fact that reducing such pollution, while essential for public health, is also heating the atmosphere.

Race Against Climate Change

Fred Pearce

June 12th 2024

Protection for spotted owl unreasonably delayed, says judge

A federal judge says it's "difficult to fathom" how it could be reasonable for Canada's environment minister to take more than eight months before recommending an emergency protection order for B. C.'s northern spotted owl.

The Canadian Press

June 11th 2024

After three decades of labour, non-profit finds much to love

Founded in 1992 as a response to the toxic Sydney tar ponds, the Atlantic Coastal Action Program has dedicated itself to sustaining and restoring watersheds and building habitat for the wildlife that thrives there. Their work is yielding results.

Race Against Climate Change

Alison Auld

June 10th 2024

Farmed fish top number caught in wild for first time, UN finds

The total global volume of fish, shrimp, clams and other aquatic animals that are harvested by farming has topped the amount fished in the wild from the world's waters for the first time ever, the United Nations reported Friday.

Associated Press

June 7th 2024

How new federal climate funding will help communities

Building better dykes to prevent flooding, constructing fire breaks to slow wildfires, and creating more cooling centres for people — these projects could be among those to soon benefit from over half a billion dollars in funding provided by the federal government this week to help Canadian communities adapt to climate change.

Cloe Logan

June 6th 2024

As energy costs rise, provinces urgently seek solutions

A new report from Nova Scotia — the province with the highest percentage of people experiencing energy poverty in Canada — suggests urgent solutions to help those struggling to pay their energy bills, while measures in Ontario have made them more affordable for some.

Cloe Logan

June 4th 2024

Recyclables fill Ontario dumps like nowhere else in Canada

Even though a recent Abacus poll confirmed that more than 80 per cent of Ontarians want to see an expanded deposit-return program for non-alcoholic beverage containers in the province, an estimated 1.7 billion containers are still ending up in landfills, incinerators or as litter. Advocates want to change that.

Abdul Matin Sarfraz

June 4th 2024