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First leasing round to develop projects in waters off Nova Scotia and Newfoundland & Labrador has been cemented for 2025, after royal assent was received on legislation to transform provincial petroleum boards into offshore energy regulators

Concrete has weighed down the building industry's efforts to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, but a low-carbon revolution in the world’s most-used construction material is starting to gather momentum

Fossil fuel companies are pressuring the Canadian Sustainability Standards Board to weaken proposed rules to report on greenhouse gas emissions, threatening the country's ability to attract investment as the energy transition unfolds.

A new generation of developers and architects deliver net-zero and green retrofit designs for an emerging clean economy.

A new groundbreaking scientific study identifying "dark oxygen" production on the seafloor, has thrown the deep sea mining industry into chaos as countries negotiate its future.

The plant slowdown is a blow to the township, which was looking forward to the creation of 600 jobs, and the potential to manufacture sufficient battery materials to support the production of over 800,000 EVs per year. 

Canada, United States, Norway, United Kingdom and Australia called "climate hypocrites" for claiming environmental leadership while granting record numbers of oil and gas drilling licenses in 2024, says a new report by independent think tank IISD.

A new generation of developers and architects are designing a future for the building sector that is less polluting and still profitable

New net-zero building designs and decarbonizing retrofits could lay the foundation for a green building boom — but the challenges are formidable.

The Canadian insurance industry continues to pump billions of dollars into coal, oil and gas companies wrecking the planet, according to new research from advocacy group Investors for Paris Compliance.

Oil and gas companies are making record breaking profits, but failing to invest in meaningful decarbonization. On Thursday, the House of Commons environment committee took their executives to task.

Ontario's mining industry risks a shortfall of over 3,500 skilled green-collar workers by 2040, unless it jump-starts education and training for the new generation of technicians needed as Canada's critical minerals-hungry electric vehicle sector gears up this decade

Financial institutions have a key role to play in the transition to greener and more climate-resilient communities, but they must work harder if they're going to do so.

Landmark memorandum of understanding for Canada's first battery nickel processing facility between Wyloo and Sudbury brings First Nations to table '"from the outset" to forge a "missing piece" in the continent's EV supply chain.

Experts are bullish about the opportunities for wind and other marine renewables to power a boom in Canada's maritime economies, but urge immediate investment to quicken their growth.