A Thriving Future
This brief analyzes Canada's Emissions Reductions Plan and its impacts on poverty and inequality, showing the need for social safeguards in policy.
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Policy Coherence and Food Systems Transformation
To develop national pathways toward sustainable food systems, we need to align a diverse range of policy areas. How can countries overcome contradictions, inconsistencies, and trade-offs?
Fueling Change: The journey to end fossil fuel subsidies in Canada
How Canada became the first country in the world to introduce a framework for ending government subsidies to domestic oil and gas companies.
Developed nations may face scrutiny over unfulfilled climate commitments at COP28: UN report
Acknowledgement that historical emissions of developed countries have depleted the carbon budget and that they failed to fulfil their pre-2020 commitments could be included in the outcome of the first-ever global stocktake. Pre-2020 commitments of developed countries refer to emission reduction pledges they made before the Paris Agreement under the Kyoto Protocol and the Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol. Initiated in Glasgow in 2021, the first-ever global stocktake will conclude at the annual climate talks (COP28) in Dubai in December.
How much do we really know about “sustainable” cotton?
Exploring the complex value chains behind our t-shirts and towels and asking why we need to get better at tracing garments from the store back to the farm.
Building Bridges: Outcomes-Based Financing for Nature-Based Infrastructure
We will run a session at Building Bridges, 2023, where we will discuss the effectiveness of outcomes-based financing for nature-based infrastructure projects
Consider more than just the environment when examining climate-resilient infrastructure, say experts
Ensuring Canada's infrastructure is more resilient in the face of increasing climate disasters will require reframing the issue beyond the readily apparent environmental impacts, according to an expert at a national climate adaptation research centre.
Lake Superior's shipwrecks aren't immune to invasive species in the Great Lakes
Beneath the cold blue waters of Lake Superior lie hundreds of shipwrecks, which serve as underwater time capsules of travel, trade and turbulence dating back more than a century. While the fate of these structures is largely subject to the hands of time, new foes have crept on board: zebra and quagga mussels. These invasive species have stirred up concern among archaeologists, historians and divers, who are reporting increased cases of the mussels coating wrecks across the Great Lakes, causing accelerated deterioration.