Climate

Caribbean delegates at COP28 will be touting innovative home-grown solutions that beef up their climate resilience, as they hunt for more philanthropic funders

Climate

Canada has to stop responding to climate disasters like surprise emergencies

Will Greaves and Yvonne Su

Calling in the Army for climate-related emergencies isn’t just costly, it does little to protect communities in advance and fails to strengthen community resilience for the future

Climate | Fall 2023

Damned if you’re doomed

Tom Rand

Anticipating bad warming doesn’t imply climate doom-ism. Just because the climate horse left the barn doesn’t mean it will run us over.

Climate | Fall 2023

Tree planting in the face of Canada’s worst wildfire season

Trina Moyles

In the midst of the climate emergency, reforestation isn’t as simple as planting more trees. Scientists say what we've been planting, and how, are making things worse.

Climate

To achieve a ‘forest-positive’ planet, we must prioritize the rights of Indigenous Peoples

Didier Bergeret

OPINION | With the climate crisis threatening to turn tracts of the lush Amazon into dry grassland, companies need to put in place policies that respect Indigenous Peoples and local communities’ rights

Climate | Fall 2023

Turning point: Oil-heavy California sues Big Oil and adopts sweeping climate disclosure rules

Rick Spence

In a watershed moment, California signs Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty and two landmark corporate climate-disclosure bills while launching lawsuits against oil companies

Climate | Fall 2023

‘Extraordinary growth’ in clean energy is keeping the ‘narrowed’ pathway to 1.5 ̊C open: IEA

Mitchell Beer

IEA lays out updated net zero roadmap calling for 25% drop in fossil fuel demand by 2030, while delegates at Calgary's World Petroleum Congress call for increased fossil fuel investment

Climate | Fall 2023

How student campaigners finally convinced NYU to divest from fossil fuels

Rick Spence

NYU’s about-face should hearten climate activists everywhere. As the climate emergency grows, even recalcitrant institutions feel the ground shifting.

Climate

Green growth or ‘degrowth’? That is the question

Ivan Savin and Lewis King

A survey of climate policy researchers shows most believe we'll have to shrink our levels of consumption, or keep them neutral, in order to achieve more sustainable societies

Creative defiance

These 50 Canadian corporations are carving out a more sustainable future

Europe is setting the standard for sustainable business – and earning the rewards