The United Nations' highest court on Wednesday underlined "the urgent and existential threat posed by climate change" as it started to read out an opinion on the legal obligations of states to take ...

Judges with the United Nations’s top court say in a landmark climate decision that a “clean, healthy and sustainable ...

From protecting our wildlife to conserving our forested areas, young Canadians play a big part in tackling climate change. Still, they can be better equipped to ...

Climate change comes with a financial cost. So does figuring out how to address it. In this excerpt of DW’s Living Planet series, The World’s Host Marco Werman and DW’s Sam Baker unpack how economic ...

Despite the threat from Donald Trump's anti-climate policies, Canada must continue slashing polluting emissions to yield ...

So far, climate litigation in Canada has generally been limited to claims against governments for insufficient climate action. For example, on April 14, 2023, the Ontario Superior Court (Court ...

The new official plan for meeting Canada's greenhouse gas emissions reductions target for 2030 is the first mandatory report to Parliament under new climate accountability legislation.The 271-page ...

As wildfire season begins, the destructive impacts of climate change are being felt across Canada. Several communities in northern Saskatchewan have been issued evacuation orders due to wildfires.

Overall, the poll found six in 10 Canadians agree Canada should do more to fight climate change, and that the federal government would be failing the country if it does not act now.

Canada’s NDC from 2021 recognizes that climate change harms certain populations more than others, but does not address temporary displacement, let alone internal climate migration. The Fort McMurray ...

After years of carbon offsetting, Canada should seize the promise of the UNFCCC’s calls to action to encourage countries to do better in their efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change.