Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says a new report from the United Nations' climate agency shows the oil and gas sector "cannot do business as usual" even as the government is still considering approving a massive new offshore oil production project.
To avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis, the world’s greenhouse gas emissions need to start falling before 2025, which requires a swift move away from fossil fuels and increased investments in renewables, a new report from the IPCC says.
The head of the United Nations announced the appointment on Thursday, March 31, 2022, of an expert panel led by Canada's former environment minister to scrutinize whether companies' efforts to curb climate change are credible or mere “ greenwashing.”
The world must take “radical action” by investing $5.7 trillion in private and public money each year through 2030 to shift away from fossil fuels and ensure the planetary warming they cause doesn’t pass dangerous thresholds, the International Renewable Energy Agency says.
Countries scrambling to replace Russian oil, gas and coal supplies with any available alternative may fuel the world’s “mutually assured destruction” through climate change, the head of the United Nations warned on Monday, March 21, 2022.
Women and girls pay the highest price in all crises and conflicts from Myanmar and Afghanistan to the Sahel and Haiti, and “the horrifying war in Ukraine now joins that list,” the head of the U.N. women’s agency said on Monday, March 14, 2022.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is warning of “unavoidable multiple climate hazards” over the next two decades in a clear recognition society is entering an era of irreversible breakdown without immediate action.
United Nations Secretary General António Guterres is calling on countries like Canada to prioritize financial aid that specifically helps countries ditch coal as an energy source.
Sometimes it's hard to realize that I am listening to world leaders in Glasgow, rather than some of my colleagues from my old Greenpeace days, writes Kairn Carrington.