Canada

Toronto and Montreal move ahead with fossil fuel ad restrictions on transit

22 Oct 24 - The motions are backed by federal anti-greenwashing laws aiming to stem the tide of misinformation produced by Canada’s oil and gas industry.

Canada’s carbon tax faces the axe

9 Oct 24 - The carbon tax is popular, innovative and helps save the planet, but as prime minister Justin Trudeau trails in the polls, the opposition is trying to persuade voters that environmental policy is a burden.

Is critical minerals strategy a green shift or greenwashing?

18 Sep 24 - Canada has followed the lead of many countries recently by adopting  policies and measures  to promote rapid development of its value chain for domestic critical  minerals  essential in clean energy technology.

Why is climate change causing ‘record-shattering’ extreme heat?

4 Sep 24 - The small village of Lytton in British Columbia, Canada was once a pitstop for hikers and tourists taking in nearby scenic mountain ranges and rivers.

Canada's growing conservative backlash against carbon capture and storage

6 Aug 24 - Earlier this year a far-right group called Canada Proud began running Facebook ads to its more than 534,000 followers attacking the climate change technology favoured by conservative leaders as well as the country’s largest oil and gas producers.

'Canada Carbon Rebate' starts

18 Jul 24 - Starting today, Canadian banks are expected to clearly identify direct deposits of carbon tax rebates in customers' accounts.

Oil companies delete carbon capture mentions on websites before new Canadian regulations kick in

8 Jul 24 - Drastic action in advance of rules to rein in greenwashing shows fossil-fuel backers don’t have evidence on CCS “to support the story they’re selling.”

Thousands evacuate as wildfire grows ‘dramatically’ in western Canada

14 May 24 - Thousands of people in Canada’s westernmost province of British Columbia (BC) have been evacuated from their homes as authorities warn that a enormous wildfire continues to grow.

British Columbia's carbon tax goes up

3 Apr 24 - British Columbia's carbon tax is meant to encourage companies and consumers to shift from fossil fuels to greener forms of energy, and is intended to be returned to taxpayers in the form of a rebate.

Trudeau pledges $8.4 million to study 'democratic decline'

28 Mar 24 - Initiative will research how climate change 'interacts with democratic decline' and help protect the human rights of environmental defenders.

Industrial carbon pricing the top driver of Canada's emissions reductions

25 Mar 24 - Between now and 2030, industrial carbon pricing will do more than any other policy to cut Canada’s emissions.

Indigenous nations and world views key to combating climate change: report

21 Mar 24 - Climate change is a consequence of colonialism and the separation of the natural world, and now, Indigenous Peoples and their world views hold unique strengths in responding to the climate crisis, a...

Polar bears struggling to adapt to longer ice-free Arctic periods

14 Feb 24 - Polar bears in Canada’s Hudson Bay risk starvation as climate change lengthens periods without Arctic Sea ice, despite the creatures’ willingness to expand their diets.

Long-term prairie drought raises concerns over groundwater levels

23 Jan 24 - In the middle of a Canadian mountain playground, adjacent to a popular ski resort, there’s a well sunk into the bedrock that has a water scientist worried.

Canada on track to miss 2030 emissions targets

10 Nov 23 - Canada is set to miss its 2030 target to cut carbon emissions by at least 40% below 2005 levels by 2030, according to the latest audit from the commissioner of the environment's office.

Trees could become a source of carbon emissions

13 Sep 23 - In the face of climate change, we’ve been told forests are our salvation. But scientists believe this summer’s wildfires are a sign of a tipping point — with trees a major source of carbon emissions.

Eastern Canada wildfires: Climate change doubled likelihood of ‘extreme fire weather’

25 Aug 23 - The unusually hot and dry weather that drove record-breaking wildfires in eastern Canada was made at least two times more likely by human-caused climate change, according to a new rapid attribution...

Canadian wildfires approach provincial capital as officials race to evacuate city

21 Aug 23 - Canada is evacuating residents from the provincial capital city of Yellowknife amid wildfires that have creeped perilously close, threatening to engulf homes across vast swathes of the Northwest...

Canada’s wildfires prompt US air quality alerts for 70 million people in 32 states

21 Jul 23 - Smoke from the hundreds of blazes in Canada, has once again drifted across the border into the United States, prompting another round of air quality warnings.