Prime Minister Justin Trudeau received praise and drew protests on Friday, May 24, 2019, for his government's environmental policies as he met with one of the country's two remaining Liberal premiers.
With 2018 behind us – filled with wildfires, floods, droughts, and climate negotiations – we start 2019 looking up, with a climate deal entering into force that can change the course of our warming planet, writes Joyce Msuya, acting executive director of UN Environment.
The concessions made by French president Emmanuel Macron's government in a bid to stop the huge and violent anti-government demonstrations seemed on Wednesday, December 5, 2018, to have failed to convince protesters, with trade unions and disgruntled farmers now threatening to join the fray.
Big greenhouse-gas emitters will be able to take advantage of new federal tax incentives Finance Minister Bill Morneau promised on Wednesday, November 21, 2018, even if that means more emissions, the government says.
Carbon pollution would have to be cut by 45 per cent by 2030 – compared with a 20 per cent cut under the 2C pathway – and come down to zero by 2050, compared with 2075 for 2C. This would require carbon prices that are three to four times higher than for a 2C target. But the costs of doing nothing would be far higher.
The Trump administration has made some dangerous changes to environmental policy, but the damage so far has been less than it initially appeared, former Vice-President Al Gore said in an interview on Monday, August 13, 2018.
Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr says Canada's pathway to a clean energy future includes not only transitioning to renewable sources of energy but also technology that makes traditional fossil fuels cleaner to produce and burn.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macron, long billed as kindred political spirits, agreed on Monday, April 16, 2018, to a fresh, fortified attack on climate change — hoping to keep a shared priority at the forefront of the global agenda despite Donald Trump's decision to quit the battlefield.
Scrapping Ontario's cap-and-trade system would make no sense, the governor of California said on Monday, April 16, 2018, as he weighed in on a key Ontario election issue.
Alberta's "hard cap” allows oilsands to grab an overwhelming share of our nation's climate budget. The big grab is growing wildly out of proportion to the share of Canada’s jobs and GDP.