Fifteen years ago, Uruguay was experiencing an energy crisis brought on by its reliance on fossil fuels. Today, the nation produces 98 percent of its electricity from renewable sources. These results can happen anywhere if we implement the right measures.

This month, Toronto City Council officially adopted the City’s 2025 budget, which included the development of a new carbon budget process for the first time. This represents a significant step forward in meeting the City’s climate and sustainability goals that will reduce carbon emissions by 244,615 tonnes per year once implemented.

The increasing economic inequality and bizarre wealth gap has reached serious ramifications for governance, both in terms of fairness and social equity as well as combatting the climate crisis. It is clear that trickle down economics has failed miserably, most notably the poor.

The Canadian Climate Institute has just released a report highlighting the risks of building without adequate measures to prevent exposure to floods and wildfires. Failure to account for climate hazards could cost Canadians up to $billion annually in damages.

Over the past decade McKinsey & Company has been continuously contracted by the Federal Government, awarded ninety-seven contracts totaling more than $209 million, of which, 70 percent were non-competitive contracts.

Our former environment minister, Catherine McKenna, says she was wrong to believe the oil sands would help us save the planet. These are important lessons for all of us, as we may now surpass the Paris aspiration goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius.

There are many arguments the oil and gas sector put forward about the difficulties of transitioning to net zero emissions. Twenty-four years ago, Ontario ended its reliance on coal—the first jurisdiction to do so.

The carbon tax criticism often overlooks its two-part structure: a fuel charge and a rebate that benefits Canadian households. Despite economists supporting carbon pricing as an effective tool for reducing green house gas emissions, criticism continues.

The energy transition is fiscally feasible, says Corporate Knights research director Ralph Torrie. He estimates the cost of decarbonizing the Canadian economy to be $150 billion a year – a fraction of Canada’s total annual capital spending of $650 billion.

Tamara Krawchenko, one of our co-researchers has recently co-authored this new book.

This study and reanalysis of the Meeting the Climate Change Challenge research project data, is one of the outcomes of our current research into new governance models for a carbon neutral economy.

Rich countries could raise five times the money that developing nations are asking for via windfall taxes on fossil fuel companies, scrapping polluting subsidies and a wealth tax on billionaires.

Global leaders meet at COP16 as biodiversity loss accelerates at an alarming rate.

With government collaboration and cooperation, net-zero buildings are achievable by 2030.

Federal/provincial conflict demonstrates how we need to move to multi-level governance.

More than 250 billionaires and millionaires are demanding that the political elite meeting for the World Economic Forum in Davos introduce wealth taxes to help pay for better public services around the world.

The world has to slash carbon emissions by almost half in the next seven years to remain on track for just 1.5C of global heating and avoid the worst of climate impacts. And yet, globally emissions continue to rise.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released an update to its 2021 Net Zero Roadmap, claiming it is possible to achieve net zero CO2 emissions by 2050 with rapid action.

Even as the impacts of climate change are accelerating, progress on climate adaptation is slowing.