Climate

Nova Scotia has set out 68 climate goals, including plans to reduce oil heating in homes and buildings, upgrade dikeland to prevent flooding and expand electric vehicle charging stations, in its anticipated plan released Wednesday.

Sea levels in Nova Scotia are set to rise up to a metre by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions aren’t reduced “significantly,” says the province, stressing the need to cut back on planet-warming pollution. 

When Zhanyun Wang was a kid, his mother told him to avoid the sweet-smelling gases that sometimes drifted across his neighbourhood near Shanghai from nearby plastic factories. Anything that smelled "really nice," the now-researcher at the University of Zurich explained, was "probably very toxic."

The proposed changes address all major sources of methane emissions from oil and gas, but there are still questions about reporting and measuring the greenhouse gas.

Lobbyists for Canada's meat and dairy industries are showing up with unprecedented visibility at the COP27 climate conference now underway in Egypt. The industries have at least one representative on the official Canadian delegation, a position that gives easy access to negotiators and closed-door meetings.

A new item is on the menu for the thousands of people gathering this month at COP27, the United Nations' annual climate conference: food. 

Canada’s finance minister will present a fiscal look-ahead Thursday as Canadians grapple with high inflation and an impending recession.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s hefty 71-member shadow cabinet includes both former leadership rivals and loyal followers, along with a new role: shadow minister of red tape reduction.

Justin Trudeau travelled Tuesday to Nova Scotia and P.E.I., where he pledged to find ways to build more resilient infrastructure after inspecting the extensive damage caused by post-tropical storm Fiona.

Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard has donated the nearly $4-billion company to a specially designed trust and a non-profit dedicated to protecting the environment, a decision designed to help the company put its profits toward environmental advocacy and stay in business. 

Days after signing a landmark $2.5-billion deal with the provinces and territories to subsidize Canada's farmers, the federal agriculture minister says she was betrayed by a cadre of conservative premiers.

As King Charles III begins his reign after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, environmentalists will be watching how — and if — the new monarch will continue to advocate for climate action and the environment. 

Even record-setting temperatures can’t melt the continent’s reluctance to install cooling technology.

The Goldboro LNG project is set to liquify natural gas piped in from Alberta before it’s shipped off to Europe. Opponents argue the proposition needs more environmental scrutiny.

The summer session begins Monday with the provincial throne speech on Tuesday, after which Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy will retable the 2022 budget.