Tree-planting agreements between the provinces and the federal government must be transparent to ensure Canada’s two-billion-tree program fulfils climate and biodiversity goals, the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society says.
The focus of world leaders on responding to future outbreaks overlooks the far cheaper and more effective strategy of stopping the spillover of disease from animals to humans in the first place, scientists warn.
Unless actions by governments and corporations cut emissions in the here and now, a dose of skepticism is in order, writes Damian Carrington, environment editor with the Guardian.
If palm oil from the rainforest for cows in the Prairies is either efficient or economical, we have a broken system, writes Shane Moffatt, leader of Greenpeace Canada’s nature and food campaign.
Crucial investments and actions are missing, the Preventing Pandemics at the Source coalition said, leaving the world playing an “ill-fated game of Russian roulette with pathogens.”