Canada
Report: Planning for sustainable jobs through Canada’s energy transition
“There is growing recognition across stakeholder groups that a skilled workforce is essential to designing, building, and advancing solutions to meet Canada’s climate...
Report: A Hurry-up Offense for Energy Transition and Clean Growth Projects
“Canada requires a breathtaking buildout to hit its net zero goal by 2050,” chemical engineer Arash Golshan writes in a report for the...
Emissions impossible? How the transport sector can help make the 2050 net-zero goal a reality
Meeting Canada’s ambitious net-zero emissions target by 2050 necessitates significant technological, behavioural and systemic changes in the transportation sector, a major contributor to...
Stakes could not be higher as Canada sets 2035 emissions target
Christopher Campbell-Duruflé, Toronto Metropolitan University The Government of Canada is in the midst of a public engagement on the 2035 greenhouse gas emissions...
Canada’s mild winter disrupts key ice road to remote Arctic diamond mines
TORONTO (Reuters) – An unusually warm winter in Canada this year has delayed the opening of a 400-kilometer (250-mile) ice road that is...
New study says fireworks have small effect on air quality, but doctors not impressed
Almost a year after smog from wildfires led officials in Montreal to cancel two major fireworks shows, a study has concluded the displays...
Canada’s Trudeau on back foot over carbon tax
Polluters should pay up, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insists. But pressure is mounting to scrap his signature climate policy, a federal levy...
Endangered North Atlantic right whales lose three of 19 calves this season
FREDERICTON — An international environmental organization is calling on the federal government to step up protections for endangered North Atlantic right whales beyond...
Canada’s coal exports up again, as government’s promised ban elusive
OTTAWA — Canadian exports of thermal coal increased another seven per cent in 2023, reaching the highest level in almost a decade. The...
Ontario ‘woefully underprepared’ as budget falls short on climate change
TORONTO — The Ontario budget’s failure to directly address climate change represents a “gross abdication of responsibility” by the government, some critics argue,...
