Canada has slightly adjusted its mid-term climate mitigation targets to match US pledges. Canada’s Environment Minister, Jim Prentice, recently announced that Canada has changed its mitigation goals in an effort to harmonize with the Obama administration. Canada’s new emissions reduction target for 2020 is a cut of 17% on 2005 levels. Heading into the Copenhagen [...]

The Canadian Government is adjusting its climate plans to more closely resemble those proposed in the US.  This summer Environment Canada is conducting a series of consultations with respect to its greenhouse gas emissions policies for heavy polluting industries and an announcement is expected in the fall outlining the new regulations.  Climatico has learned from [...]

    The Canadian province of British Columbia has a carbon tax that is not yet a year old and already it is on thin ice.  First announced during the delivery of the 2008 budget and implemented July 1, 2008, British Columbia`s carbon tax policy came as a surprise to many observers in the Canadian environmental field and was [...]

  On Thursday of this week Barack Obama will make his first visit to a foreign country as President of the United States.  Travelling north to Ottawa, Canada to meet with Prime Minister Harper, Obama is once again honouring a long held tradition of newly elected US Presidents (President Bush broke with tradition by visiting [...]

Canada’s Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, Scott Vaughan, has recently produced a report highlighting a significant failure on the part of the Government of Canada in ensuring that public money spent on environmental initiatives are actually achieving results. As a member of the Government of Canada’s Office of the Auditor General, the Commissioner [...]

Crude oil production from the tar sands of Canada’s Alberta province are estimated to cause three times the amount of emissions than conventional oil production and was recently described as ‘Canada’s dirty secret’ by environmental activists at the United Nations climate change meeting in Poznan, Poland. Alberta’s Premier, Ed Stelmach has faced a barrage of [...]

Selected photos from the UNFCCC COP 14 in Poznan, Poland. Photos are courtesy Robert vanWaarden, photographer for the International Youth Delegation to COP 14. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Share on technorati Tumblr it Tweet about it Subscribe to [...]

Not even two months after the last federal election in Canada (Oct.14, 2008­) signs are strongly pointing towards the defeat of Prime Minister Stephen Harper‘s minority government, as early as Monday, Dec. 8, 2008. Opposition parties have signed a deal this week outlining their plan to form a coalition government following the predicted defeat of [...]