Climate Solutions Reporting

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Abul Bashar Rahman is spending his summer cycling across his home country of Bangladesh to raise awareness of his people’s remarkable ability to remain resilient in the face of climate catastrophes. Photo by Rifat Abrar Anik

Biking around Bangladesh to find stories of climate courage

Abul Bashar Rahman, a 21-year-old economics student at the University of British Columbia, is spending his summer cycling across his home country of Bangladesh raising awareness of his people’s remarkable ability to remain resilient in the face of climate catastrophes.

Opinion

Youth climate action

By Patricia Lane & Abul Bashar Rahman | Opinion, Climate Solutions Reporting | May 8th 2023

Renewable Natural Gas-light-ing and You

Do you love your cozy gas fireplace and uber-sexy gas stove, but are tired of feeling guilty about all that climate pollution frying your kid's future? Has Barry Saxifrage got great news for you. Wink, wink.

Climate of denial

By Barry Saxifrage | Humour, Climate Solutions Reporting | May 3rd 2023

Carbon capture: Separating fact from fiction

In Episode 12 of Hot Politics, host David McKie examines the carbon capture utilization and storage process, or CCUS for short, and explores why some are calling it greenwashing.

By Zahra Khozema | News, Climate Solutions Reporting | May 2nd 2023

Tyler De Sousa (right) with Circulr co-founder Charles Binks-Collier pitching their business at an incubator program in Germany called Circular Valley. Photo submitted

For a zero-waste world, Tyler De Sousa thinks outside the circle

As co-founder and COO of Circulr, this 24-year-old Kitchener resident works with grocery store brands in the Toronto and Waterloo-Wellington regions to create a reuse platform to reduce a communities’ collective environmental impact.

Opinion

Youth climate action

By Patricia Lane & Tyler De Sousa | Opinion, Climate Solutions Reporting | May 1st 2023

Kasey Chen transplants camas seeds at Mount Tolmie as part of Mount Douglas Secondary's environmental leadership program. Photo provided by Kasey Chen

Student Kasey Chen schools others on all things green

This 17-year-old Grade 12 student, is a recipient of a 2022 Youth Climate Activism Award for her work raising awareness about the importance of recycling at her high school, reclaiming habitat from invasive species and encouraging native plant gardening.

Opinion

Youth climate action

By Patricia Lane & Kasey Chen | Opinion, Climate Solutions Reporting | April 24th 2023

A deep dive into HFCs, one of Canada’s fastest-growing climate problems

One of Canada's fastest-growing sources of emissions is the extreme greenhouse gas leaking from our businesses and homes. Barry Saxifrage takes us on a chart-packed tour of one of our least-known climate threats.

Race Against Climate Change

By Barry Saxifrage | Analysis, Climate Solutions Reporting | April 21st 2023

The key target for deep-sea mining in international waters is polymetallic nodules, small rocks containing valuable metals. These nodules take millions of years to form. Photo by NOAA Office of OER, 2019 Southeastern US Deep-sea Exploration

Deep-sea mining could be greenlit in summer despite unknown environmental risks

Mining companies are looking to the deep ocean for metals essential for alternative energy. But at what price to underwater ecosystems?

By Zahra Khozema | News, Climate Solutions Reporting | April 18th 2023

: Lauren meeting a few of Starfish Canada's Top 25 Under 25 Environmentalists at LEADINGxCHANGE 2023. From left: Ashoke Mohanraj, Jasveen Brar, Lauren Castelino, Vanessa Fiore and Abhay Singh Sachal. Photo courtesy Vanessa Fiore

Lauren Castelino and the Green Career Centre connect youth to dream green jobs

As the co-executive director at Regenesis and the founder of one of its initiatives, the Green Career Centre, this 22-year-old has helped thousands of youth — many of whom are women, newcomers, Black, Indigenous or people of colour — find employment in the emerging clean economy.

Opinion

Youth climate action

By Patricia Lane & Lauren Castelino | Opinion, Climate Solutions Reporting | April 17th 2023

Amy Mann, co-organizer of the protest, says the students will not leave until Victoria College joins the University of Toronto and divests from fossil fuels — or police forcibly remove them. Photo by Abdul Matin for Canada's National Observer

‘We will not leave’: University students dig in heels at fossil fuel divestment protest

More than 200 students have joined the 16-day occupation of the “Old Vic” building on the University of Toronto’s downtown campus, says Erin Mackey, co-coordinator of Climate Justice U of T, the student group organizing the protest.

By Abdul Matin Sarfraz | News, Climate Solutions Reporting | April 11th 2023

Cogie Cogan winning the Green Youth Leader Award from London Environmental Network. Photo submitted

Cogie Cogan makes climate crisis everyone’s business

In 2020, Cogie Cogan founded Western University's first student club to foster the next generation of environmentally aware business leaders.

Opinion

Youth climate action

By Patricia Lane & Cogie Cogan | Opinion, Climate Solutions Reporting | April 10th 2023

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