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Table of Contents Arctic Oasis Sustains Northernmost Inuit Communities—and Marine Mammals The sun hugs the horizon over northern Baffin Bay beyond the village of Grise Fiord in Nunavut, Canada. Along the shoreline just beyond these buildings, a massive pileup of ice forms one border of the North Water Polynya, a richly biodiverse area of open water. Leah Brown Fisheries and Oceans Canada Between Canada and Greenland lies the most biologically productive ecosystem north of the Arctic Circle: an 85,000-square-kilometer (32,800-square-mile) region of ocean known in Gree...

Recently, the BC government announced the acquisition of more than 650 hectares of land intended to be added to 16 provincial parks and two protected areas. Buried on Page 7 of the BC Parks Land Acquisition Program Report PDF is an 18-hectare parcel of land on north end of Kootenay Lake across from Kaslo that will be added to the Purcell Wilderness Conservancy Protect Area.

Canada December 15 2020 Under the Paris Agreement, Canada has committed to reducing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 30% below 2005 levels by 2030. The first policy steps taken to meet our Paris Agreement commitment were guided by the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change (the Pan-Canadian Framework), which was adopted in December 2016. On December 11, 2020, the federal government released its Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy Plan (the Plan), which builds on the Pan-Canadian Framework and provides a road map forward to meet our 2030 emissions reduction target...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The Government of Canada has released the new federal climate plan, entitled “ A Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy – Canada's strengthened climate plan to create jobs and support people, communities and the planet” (Plan). Building on the 2016 Pan-Canadian Framework, the Plan claims it will “do more to cut pollution in a practical and affordable way than any other climate plan in Canada's history” sup>1, including to exceed Canada's 2030 emissions reduction target under t...