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The stark message from António Guterres follows a year of global upheaval, with the coronavirus pandemic causing governments to shut down whole countries for months at a time, while wildfires, hurricanes and powerful storms have scarred the globe.

Instead, governments around the world, including Canada, expect to go in the opposite direction — producing more coal, oil or natural gas, which will result in more than double what is consistent with the Paris Agreement.

The rise of COVID-19 has resulted in an increase in global poverty for the first time in years.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer refused on Thursday, April 23, 2020, to address controversial comments by a member of his caucus who is also seeking to replace him as leader.

Climate Action Network Canada members and allies respond to COP25 outcome 

When fires cause your community to have to evacuate, climate change ceases to be an abstract political issue and instead becomes something personal.

On the eighth anniversary of the start of Syria's civil war, the UN Refugee Agency's Jean-Nicolas Beuze worries if we are dedicating enough attention or resources to helping Syrians.

As Canada prepares to sign on to a United Nations agreement on migration, Conservative politicians are pushing back, saying signing it would be tantamount to erasing Canada's borders.

Neither Canada nor the United States is experiencing a crisis in asylum claims, says the United Nations' assistant high commissioner for refugees.

Irena Creed, a Canadian biology professor and executive director of the School of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Saskatchewan, co-chaired a 19-member panel that compiled evidence showing how the health of the planet’s forests is intricately tied to the safeguarding of sustainable access to water.

"This was not just an urban middle class uprising protesting the result of a fraudulent election. This was an uprising by the poor, joined by the middle class, with chants and slogans against economic inequality, poverty, and unemployment."

Angelina Jolie delivered a stinging rebuke on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017, of global efforts to stop the use of sexual violence in war and called on the UN to finally help turn the tide.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government is taking "the appropriate amount of time" to decide where to send hundreds of peacekeepers.

The facts behind the Syrian chemical weapons attack must be clearly established so those responsible can be held accountable, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said Wednesday April 5, 2017.

"Even if peace was to take place from tonight, the humanitarian needs within Syria would continue for a good time to come."