Arrest deforestation, United Nations urges countries

MANILA – United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres raised the urgency to increasingly restore and conserve forests worldwide to reverse further deforestation. Forests help sustain life on...

Chrystia Freeland must pick a lane with next budget – climate change or oil and gas?

When she tables a much-anticipated federal budget later this year, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland mustn’t pass up the opportunity to revisit and rethink a bedrock assumption...

Canada Raising Awareness on Zero-Emission Vehicles

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Feeding cows a few ounces of seaweed daily could sharply reduce their contribution to climate change

Conservation hope: Many wildlife species can recover if given a chance

There is real and justified concern about the state of our world’s ecosystems. Satellite imagery reveals few places left untouched by humanity. As the global human...

Government of Canada supports innovative, made-in-Canada solutions to plastic waste

Plastic litter is polluting our rivers, lakes, and oceans, harming the wildlife that call those places home and generating micro and macroplastics in the water we...

Government of Canada announces next step in creation of domestic carbon offset to further support clean growth

The Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, today announced draft regulations to establish the Federal Greenhouse Gas Offset System to reduce carbon...

Curbing the Plastic Pollution Pandemic

Getting Started on Our B Corp Journey to Fight Plastic Pollution During the Pandemic From living with a pandemic to the impending climate crisis to longstanding...

Healthy rivers: Communities use DNA tool to keep tabs on freshwater quality

Photos of Canada often show the Great Lakes, expanses of wetlands and scenic rivers. The country is described as a water-rich nation, and it is, with...

Five ways to reduce your household waste – and stop it being shipped to poorer countries

The UK is the largest plastic waste producer in Europe and one of the biggest producers of plastic waste in the world, second only to the...