Climate Solutions Reporting

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Climate pollution changes in OECD nations 2010-2019

Canada is a rogue super-emitter

When it comes to climate action, Canada is increasingly out of step with our peers, says columnist Barry Saxifrage.

By Barry Saxifrage | Analysis, Climate Solutions Reporting | April 14th 2022

File photo of Alberta oilsands facility by Kris Krug

Canada’s failure to cut emissions is coming back to bite us

Decades of rising emissions are saddling Canadians with ever-steeper climate targets. And columnist Barry Saxifrage has the receipts.

Race to a Safer World

By Barry Saxifrage | Analysis, Climate Solutions Reporting | April 11th 2022

Canada’s Top 10 emission changes show what’s worked and what’s failed

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, those who fail to learn from their climate polluting history are doomed to repeat it, writes columnist Barry Saxifrage.

Race to a Safer World

By Barry Saxifrage | Analysis, Climate Solutions Reporting | April 5th 2022

Canada map covered in fossil fuel exhaust

Wrong-way Canada emitting more while our G7 peers clean up

Canada is the only G7 nation still emitting far above 1990 levels — and we are still heading in the wrong direction, writes columnist Barry Saxifrage.

Race to a Safer World

By Barry Saxifrage | Analysis, Climate Solutions Reporting | March 23rd 2022

Cities and communities across Canada taking a whole-community approach to climate action

Whether it’s wildfires, floods, droughts or coastal storms, communities are being asked to respond without having the basic knowledge or expertise on where to start.

Opinion

Bolder, faster, together: Perspectives on societal transition

By Shauna Sylvester & Laura Schnurr | Opinion, Climate Solutions Reporting | March 21st 2022

Graphic of gas pump and car charger. Credit: Barry Saxifrage at visualCarbon

High gas prices? Some Canadians are filling up for under 35 cents a ‘litre’

Columnist Barry Saxifrage breaks down how much it costs right now to power a car with gasoline versus electricity in cities across Canada.

Race to a Safer World

By Barry Saxifrage | Analysis, Climate Solutions Reporting | March 15th 2022

View of trees killed by fire, drought and insects in B.C.'s Stein Valley Park

How B.C.’s forests became a carbon-spewing liability

British Columbia's valuable carbon sink is gone. Its forests are hemorrhaging CO2. And the wood harvested from the province is now adding fuel to our climate crisis.

Race to a Safer World

By Barry Saxifrage | Analysis, Climate Solutions Reporting | March 4th 2022

Transitioning means divorcing ourselves from fossil fuel economics

Can our assumptions about economic growth and our attachment to the systems that drive it be adapted, and where necessary, dismantled and replaced to prevent our multiple crises from worsening?

Opinion