As one of the few countries to have enshrined net-zero into law, Canada has earned praise for its climate leadership. Yet an independent report calls out its continued failures to reduce emissions.
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The prime minister road-tested an avalanche of slogans on Wednesday, some of them clearly false.
The clock tracks global emissions and temperature data, and uses the most recent five-year emissions trend to estimate how much time is left until global warming reaches the 1.5 C threshold.
If Canada chooses to keep its oil in the ground, it doesn’t mean turning off the tap overnight. Skilled trades will be key to winding down the industry and building up new lines of work.
The goal of carbon neutrality changes everything. Canada can no longer limit itself to solutions that partially reduce emissions here and there. The chosen solution must be zero emissions.
While the outcome of the 2021 federal election offered little in the way of change, it may have left Canada better positioned to make progress on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Rather than considering the job done, Tasmania should seize opportunities including renewable energy, net-zero industrial exports and forest preservation.
Humanity can still limit global warming to 1.5°C this century. But political action will determine whether it actually does. Conflating the two questions amounts to dangerous, misplaced punditry.
Changes to the way houses and other buildings are constructed could lower energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.
Biden’s strong climate change position doesn’t appear to have hurt him in the key swing state of Pennsylvania or in the general election more broadly. Here’s what it means for Canada.
Sustainability must be the centrepiece of the UK’s investment in school buildings.
Canada keeps revising and updating its emissions targets, diverting attention from its failures to make any progress at all.
Top contributors
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Professor and Climate Scientist, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Researcher, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
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Professor of Physical Climate Change; Director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds
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Professor of Sustainable Operations Management, University of Zurich
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Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management, University of Calgary
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Assistant Professor, Lincoln Alexander School of Law, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management, KU Leuven
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Professor, Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada
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Professor, Department of Geography & Environmental Studies, University of Regina
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Professor of Political Science, McMaster University
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Directeur de l’Institut de l’énergie Trottier, Polytechnique Montréal et Professeur de physique, Université de Montréal
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Professor of Political Science, University of British Columbia
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Affiliate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
