In the face of multiple health and environmental crises, the inefficiencies of GDP as the main measure of economic health and government policy are strikingly apparent.
If the Conservative party forms government and implements its climate plan, it would violate the terms of the Paris Agreement, environmental law experts say.
The Tories' climate plan sticks with the 30 per cent target. But because the federal government has submitted a more ambitious target, walking back from it would “be a breach of the Paris Agreement,” Aaron Cosbey, an economist with the International Institute for Sustainable Development, told iPolitics.
Heavy rain as intense as the downpours behind the recent deadly flooding in Germany and Belgium has been made up to nine times more likely by climate change and up to 19% more intense, BBC News reports, covering a new "rapid attribution" study from the "World Weather Attribution" group of researchers.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh was in Montreal on Monday, where he discussed his party's environmental platform and vowed to end all subsidies for the oil and gas industry, if his party wins next month.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh focused on the environment as he campaigned in central Montreal, where his party hopes to regain seats it lost in the past two elections.
As the first G7 country to make a net zero commitment, talks on whether to approve a new oil field pose a test for the United Kingdom’s climate ambitions.
If elected, the federal NDP would identify fossil fuel subsidies, eliminate them "once and for all," and spend the money on the renewable energy sector, Leader Jagmeet Singh said on the campaign trail Monday morning.