Local governments across Canada are focusing on sustainable service delivery—delivering core municipal services in a reliable and cost effective manner in the face of increased…
Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) first vice president Bill Karsten issued a statement on September 27th following FCM’s appearance before the Standing Committee on Finance…
Ahead of 13th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP13) of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, the Parties have released a report on the…
Yesterday, during the week of the 73rd UN General Assembly in New York, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced that Michael R. Bloomberg, the UN Special Envoy for Climate Action,…
Yesterday, the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario, Dianne Saxe, released a report on climate action in Ontario, which provides evidence of the impacts a warming climate…
Stormwater drainage systems are our first line of defence against pluvial flooding. In recent years, many Canadian studies have pointed to the abysmal state of…
The Gulf of St. Lawrence has warmed and lost oxygen faster than almost anywhere else in the global oceans, impacting oxygen levels in the St.…
Today, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) announced over $2 million for 41 new initiatives in communities across Canada through the Green Municipal Fund (GMF),…
Methane released by thawing permafrost from some Arctic lakes is likely to accelerate climate change, according to a new study from the University of Alaska…
The latest Actuaries Climate Index data, reported by organizations representing the actuarial profession in Canada and the United States, showed that the five-year moving average…
Campbell River, B.C. has approved recommendations for the use of 3.5-acre site that will help mitigate the effects of climate change induced sea level rise.…
Rice plants engineered to have fewer stomata are more tolerant to drought and resilient to future climate change, finds new research from the University of…
At the directive of the Treasury Board Secretariat, the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) has assembled a new expert panel to examine the top climate…
This week, Québec’s Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and the Fight Against Climate Change, Isabelle Melançon, announced the provincial water strategy for 2018–2030 and its 2018–2023 action…
It was announced yesterday that Canada’s Expert Panel on Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience had released its findings after being appointed in August 2017. The…
Ask your average Canadian about the notion of water risk and they’re likely to say, “not here in Canada!” Yet water risk is a multifaceted…
A new global, satellite-based study of global freshwater distribution found that Earth’s wet areas are getting wetter, while dry areas are getting drier. The data…
Over the past four years, the Government of New Brunswick has launched a number of major climate change focused initiatives, including a discussion guide on…
Climate change action and sustainable communities were among the top five priorities identified by Canadians who responded to the nation-wide survey about the UN Sustainable…
A new report from the UN Environment Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) working group, a collaboration among sixteen international financial institutions, proposes a methodology to increase…
Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath unveiled her party’s election platform, Safer Province, Healthier Environment, last week which included a promise to develop a provincial water strategy. “Andrea Horwath…
Postponing Day Zero in Cape Town for 2018 comes as no surprise. There was no sense to it once the day had been pushed into the…
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) has published CSA Staff Notice 51-354 Report on Climate change-related Disclosure Project. The report summarizes the findings of the CSA’s previously announced…
Columbia Basin Trust has announced support for 12 climate action projects with over $540,000 through the first year of its three-year Climate Action Program. A number of…