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Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Minister Barbara Creecy was talking to experts in preparation for the Glasgow International Climate Change talks on Friday.
Winnipeg Free Press Responsibility, improved communication key for facing challenges ahead: Guillemard RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Portrait of Sarah Guillemard, Conservation and Climate Minister of Manitoba in her office at the Legislative Building. When Fort Richmond MLA Sarah Guillemard was tapped to join Tory Premier Brian Pallister’s cabinet in fall 2019, she wasn’t only taking on a new level of responsibility. When Fort Richmond MLA Sarah Guillemard was tapped to join Tory Premier Brian Pallister’s cabinet in fall 2019, she wasn’t only taking on a new level of responsib...
At the same time, a Lancet Commission on health and climate change found that “tackling climate change could be the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century”. Many efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change also work towards tackling some of the world’s biggest health challenges in the form of non-communicable diseases. This is good news, not only because of the opportunities to benefit health, but also because the evidence suggests that framing climate change in this way can help gain public support for stronger government action. The health opportunity of more a...
The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe to Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? Today, the United States formally reenters the Paris Agreement. Signed in December of 2015 by the Obama administration and abandoned in 2017 by then-President Trump, the accord was and remains a landmark achievement in global climate diplomacy. Heads of government, business leaders, and climate activist...
Climate Change Weekly #385 In less than a month, three separate reports have been released repeating the same half-truth: the costs of natural disasters are rising, setting records in recent years, and human-caused climate change is to blame. I say half-truth because it is also a half-lie. Each of the studies received copious amounts of prominent coverage by the mainstream media. I suspect the timing of the releases and the coordinated coverage were not by coincidence. They were intended to gin up a steady drumbeat of support for radical climate action by the incoming Biden administration, wi...