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An older man stands in a black raincoat and gestures, with a great expanse of flooded land visible in the background.

Canada’s $1.6-billion climate adaptation plan includes updated flood maps, preventing wildfires, and helping you battle extreme heat

Canada’s much-anticipated roadmap to weather the impacts of climate change is out, and it includes $1.6 billion in new spending to fortify infrastructure, protect human health and predict future risks.

By Natasha Bulowski | News, Politics, Climate Solutions Reporting, Ottawa Insider | November 24th 2022

Doug Ford betrayed his promise to protect the Greenbelt

It’s no secret developers want to build in Ontario's Greenbelt. If the provincial government opens the door to allowing land swaps, there will be no way to close this door again.

Opinion

By Keith Brooks | Opinion, Climate Solutions Reporting | November 24th 2022

Senators, Ministers, NGO representatives, and the filmaker gather to watch Issue with Tissue: A Boreal Love Story. Photo by Matteo Cimellaro / Canada's National Observer

Film interconnecting colonization and deforestation in the boreal screened for senators, ministers

Filmmaker Michael Zelniker says the film is not his story, but those of the Elders who shared their knowledge and stories with him. Now, Zelniker hopes politicians will listen to the Elders and act.

By Matteo Cimellaro | News, Climate Solutions Reporting, Urban Indigenous Communities in Ottawa | November 24th 2022

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Canada backed bid to scale back ‘unabated’ fossil fuels, but pledge never made it into the final COP27 agreement

Canada was one of more than 80 countries to call for the phasedown of unabated fossil fuels as COP27 negotiations went into overtime.

Negotiating survival

By Natasha Bulowski | News, Politics, Climate Solutions Reporting | November 24th 2022

Politics remain heated around carbon tax for Atlantic Canada

Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island will all see the federal charge, often referred to as a carbon tax, go into effect after failing to propose province-led plans that meet climate standards, Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault announced Tuesday.

By Cloe Logan | News, Climate Solutions Reporting | November 24th 2022

After COP27, where does Canada stand on phasing out fossil fuels?

It was important for countries at COP27 to name the so-called elephant in the room — oil and gas — the main cause of climate change, write Keith Brooks and Dave Gray-Donald.

Opinion

Negotiating survival

By Keith Brooks & Dave Gray-Donald | Opinion, Climate Solutions Reporting | November 23rd 2022

Canadians are eager to use federal funding to retrofit their homes, but the biggest energy savings — such as installing a heat pump — will break the bank without additional programs. Photo by Phyxter Home Services / Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.0

Feds to provide money upfront for lower-income Canadians who want to trade oil heating for electric

The federal government recently announced a new grant to help lower-income homeowners switch from carbon-intensive oil heating to efficient heat pumps by removing cost barriers and layering programs.

By Natasha Bulowski | News, Politics, Climate Solutions Reporting, Ottawa Insider | November 23rd 2022

Eriel Tchekwie Deranger at a protest at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Deranger critiques how carbon markets may affect Indigenous nations. Photo by John Woodside / Canada's National Observer

Carbon trading: A tool for reconciliation or colonization?

Can carbon markets bring affluence and autonomy to Indigenous Nations? Or further exploitation in a new era of green colonialism?

By Matteo Cimellaro | News, Climate Solutions Reporting, Urban Indigenous Communities in Ottawa | November 23rd 2022

Melissa Daniels is from the northern Alberta hamlet of Fort Chipewyan, but left the community in part because of fears nearby tarsands development would threaten her health. Photo provided by Melissa Daniels

She left home over toxic pollution. An update to Canada’s main environmental law might help her return

Melissa Daniels is from Fort Chipewyan, an 850-person roadless hamlet in northern Alberta. It's the land her people have lived on for time immemorial, and the place her relatives and friends call home. Yet, despite her love for her home community, she doesn't live there. The settlement is directly downstream from the tarsands, which has contaminated the hamlet and nearby forests with chemicals.

By Marc Fawcett-Atkinson | News, Climate Solutions Reporting | November 23rd 2022

Harjeet Singh attends loss and damage protest at the COP27 venue on Saturday Nov 12, 2022. Photo by: John Woodside

‘Bittersweet’ COP27 delivers historic win on climate justice but fails to tackle the climate crisis head on

Petro-states fought hard to ensure the COP27 implementation plan does not address fossil fuels directly

Negotiating survival

By John Woodside | News, Climate Solutions Reporting | November 21st 2022

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