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Before heading to this year’s climate conference, Canada's new environment minister, Steven Guilbeault, should announce to Canadians clear and ambitious timelines to develop and implement the government’s climate platform, Lisa Gue and Tom Green write.
Close to 50 per cent of our national emissions are produced by Alberta and Saskatchewan, writes Ross Belot, who refers to this composite region as Albertawan.
B.C. holds tremendous potential for true climate leadership. But only if we are willing to change our relationship with each other and the land, writes climate justice advocate Anjali Appadurai.
If there's one clear message to come out of Trudeau's latest cabinet announcement, it's that Ottawa is preparing to press ahead on climate change, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
"Only by taking collective action will we halt global warming and lessen its economic, social, and environmental impacts," says Melita Gabrič, ambassador of the European Union to Canada.
As Justin Trudeau and his most senior advisers finalize their cabinet picks, they have an embarrassment of riches to choose from among the 160-member Liberal caucus, writes Andrew Perez.
Damage from increasingly extreme weather events is falling especially hard on developing countries, even though they have done the least to contribute to climate change. At the upcoming UN climate talks, rich nations must begin to compensate them for their mounting losses, writes Bill McKibben.
