Evidence Network

Climate change is a global health emergency

By Tim K. Takaro and Jennifer Miller Comments Off on Climate change is a global health emergency , , , , ,

Federal pipeline needs independent assessment, global health leaders say   After a summer that saw over 90 heat-related deaths in Quebec, drought-impacted crops across the Prairies, and large swaths of Western Canada and Ontario ravaged by wildfires and shrouded in smoke, many of the world’s leading experts gathered in San Francisco at the Global Climate […]

Canada should not stray from climate commitments

By Brendan Boyd and Barry Rabe Comments Off on Canada should not stray from climate commitments , , , , , , , , ,

Things look bleak these days for the Trudeau government’s Pan-Canadian Framework on climate change (PCF). The framework represents Canada’s primary compliance path with the Paris Climate Accord, requiring provinces to establish a price on carbon or have one imposed by Ottawa. Opposition Conservatives have railed against the plan in the House of Commons. Newly-elected Ontario […]