GENEVA, Aug 8 – Land is already under growing human pressure and climate change is adding to these pressures. At the same time, keeping global warming to well below 2ºC can be achieved only by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from … Continue reading →
In advance of Canada Parks Day, the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) is welcoming Canada’s efforts to meet our 2020 land protection commitments and urging the federal government to champion ambitious, evidence-based conservation targets for the next decade that … Continue reading →
New research highlights state of local adaptation planning in Canada Extreme forest fires, urban flooding and severe storms make frequent headlines across Canada as these events become more prominent and destructive. Estimated to cost Canadian communities $5 billion a year … Continue reading →
–Mick Rhodes This past Saturday I joined about seventy folk attending Transition Sooke’s town hall meeting to discuss The Pact For a Green New Deal, a budding national movement. There was an enthusiastic response by the attendees as to what … Continue reading →
In May and June across Canada, people from all walks of life have been coming together in community-led town hall events to help shape a vision for our immediate future. A Green New Deal for all. Sooke will be holding … Continue reading →
Background: The federal government has just announced that they have again approved the trans mountain pipeline project. Response from the traditional and unceded territories of the Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaʔɬ/sel̓ílwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh)- June 18, 2019 In spite of today’s … Continue reading →
Background: The federal government has just announced that they have again approved the trans mountain pipeline project. Sierra Club BC released the following statement in response to the federal government’s decision to approve the Trans Mountain pipeline and tankers project: “Saying yes … Continue reading →
Andrew Gage, a staff lawyer from West Coast Environmental Law, is attending this week’s North Central Local Government Association (NCLGA) meeting to hear firsthand how wildfires and other climate-related impacts have affected northern communities – and how their elected officials … Continue reading →
Current global response insufficient; ‘Transformative changes’ needed to restore and protect nature; Opposition from vested interests can be overcome for public good Most comprehensive assessment of its kind; 1,000,000 species threatened with extinction Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented … Continue reading →
-Mac Radburn, Smart Prosperity Institute Today the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal ruled that the federal Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act (GGPPA) is constitutionally valid; it falls within federal authority under the “National Concern” power – a branch of the Peace, … Continue reading →
