UN climate summit: Legally bound but not ’legally binding’
Will the UN set legally binding targets, or just legally bind countries to set their targets? Welcome to diplomacy.
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What ’the blob’ tells us about ocean warming
Richard Dewey on how ‘the blob’ in the Pacific disrupted weather and offers a terrifying glimpse at the effect of climate change
Expectations build for Canada at Paris’s now-or-never climate summit
Canada’s new government has raised expectations by simply not being the Conservatives. With these high stakes, will Justin Trudeau deliver real action?
What fish have to teach the Paris climate conference
The world may find our prime minister all the rage, but it’s scientists who are in vogue. And a leading one makes a compelling case against changing environmental goals
David Suzuki compares oil sands industry to slavery
Suzuki dismisses economic arguments for oil sands as ’immoral’
Alberta’s greenhouse gas plan: a glass half full or half empty?
Alberta’s change in direction on emissions is welcome news for those concerned about climate change, but some implications of the plan are worrisome
At the First Ministers summit, the meeting was the message
Justin Trudeau practices his climate message at a first ministers meeting meant to telegraph change
Why Canada’s Museum of Nature was a good place to host a climate summit
Mineral samples, dinosaurs and polar bears all stand in the Canadian Museum of Nature as totems for a meeting between the PM and premiers on climate change
Amid a climate-change parade, Brad Wall casts himself as Harper Lite
A day after Alberta announced new policies to fight climate change, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall strikes a more fretful tone
What to expect from Canada’s trip to the Paris climate talks
Brokering an international deal on climate change may be the easy part. Next up: provincial harmony.