Canada presenting itself as climate leader at COP31, despite policy rollbacks
Despite its rollbacks of climate policy, the Carney government will lead a delegation to the COP31 conference in Turkey next week presenting itself as an international climate leader. Government officials held a technical briefing for journalists today ahead of the annual two-week United Nations climate conference. Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin will attend the first week of COP31 and officials say...
Canada finding 'solutions' on EU carbon tariff threat: Carney
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Ottawa has made progress on a trade irritant with the European Union — a carbon tariff on energy intensive Canadian exports. At the closing news conference for the Canada-EU summit in Montreal, Carney said there are "common solutions" to resolving the carbon import levy on Canadian products such as iron ore, steel, aluminum, cement and...
Canada facing carbon tariff threat from European Union: internal documents
No exemptions for Canada despite adopting carbon pricing. Canada is facing a carbon tariff threat from the European Union within months as the economic bloc fully implements its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). According to internal documents CBC News obtained through an access to information request, Canadian iron, steel and aluminum are not exempt from the carbon tariff even with...
Why this climate trial will test whether Canadians can hold government accountable
Monday, a trial begins in Vancouver whose outcome could significantly alter climate change policies across the country. A group of youth are taking the federal government to court for failing to adequately address climate change, arguing that their Section 7 Charter rights — to life, liberty and security of the person — have been breached.
Nature vs. bulldozers: The environment minister's balancing act at UN nature summit
Canada is showing up at this year's international nature summit in Armenia with pledges to protect swaths of land bigger than most countries. But it's also facing criticism for advancing major projects that put those protections in jeopardy. Environment and Climate Change Minister Julie Dabrusin spoke to CBC News about the work she hopes to advance in Yerevan and responded...
The Context: A Trail Worth Protecting and Investing
Since 1992, the Trans Canada Trail has connected Canadians to each other and to nature, and it has been an economic and environmental asset for communities nationwide. Ongoing federal funding is critical to protect what Canada has already built.
Climate resilience: less talk, more building
Canada’s infrastructure is under growing pressure from floods, wildfires, severe storms, aging assets, and mismanagement. When roads close, ports are disrupted, or electricity systems fail, the consequences extend beyond physical damage. Businesses lose ready access to mar...
Bill C-39 dismantles Canada’s environmental policy ‘beyond anything we’ve ever seen,’ say climate groups
Environmental groups are sounding the alarm on the federal government’s Building Canada Strong Act as an “astonishing undermining of environmental law,” saying it gives cabinet the authority to approve virtually any project—across the country—regardless of its environmental impacts. “The package of changes to environmental law over the last year-and-a-half … since this government first tabled the Building Canada Act has...
David Suzuki says Mark Carney is driving Canada 'into a ditch' with shift on climate
OTTAWA -- David Suzuki said that when Prime Minister Mark Carney was first elected last year, he celebrated. Having met and interviewed the prime minister before, the national environmentalist icon said he knew Carney understood the challenges of climate change.
Mark Carney is squandering the Liberals’ advantage on climate change
It’s been a brand-defining characteristic of the Liberal Party of Canada for more than a decade, a wedge issue successfully deployed against the Conservatives in four federal elections, and a useful tool to mobilize voters in Ontario, B.C. and Quebec specifically, but the Grits’ advantage on climate change is at risk of being squandered by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government...
Canada won't even hit 2030 emissions target by 2050, new study suggests
A new study released Friday suggests that Canada is on track to miss its 2030 emissions target under the Paris Agreement -- and it won't even reach it by 2050, the year it was supposed to hit net-zero. The analysis, published by the Canadian Climate Institute, suggests recent climate policy rollbacks by the federal government have put Canada more than...
Changes to Canada's climate now 'irreversible,' federal report says
The impacts of climate change in Canada are now largely irreversible and average temperatures are expected to rise by at least 3.5 C by the end of the century, a new government report warns. The report, published Thursday, is the second released by Environment and Climate Change Canada examining changes to Canada's climate. It was authored by nearly two dozen...
Canadians should prepare for a 5 C hotter future, report warns
Canadians will have to prepare for a future that's 5 C hotter, according to a new report summarizing the latest science on climate change. The second edition of Canada's Changing Climate Report, a synthesis of the science on the impact of a warming planet on Canadians, confirms with greater confidence that burning fossil fuels, or what the report calls "human...
Donald Trump’s trade war is accelerating Canada’s retreat from climate policy
Donald Trump’s trade war is accelerating Canada’s retreat from climate policy. When trade talks between Canada and the United States broke down on August 22 and Trump imposed tariffs of 50 per cent on almost $30 billion of Canadian goods, Canada had to respond. And it is responding. Prime Minister Mark Carney is standing up to Trump. I admire him...
Carney government asks court to quash lawsuit over projected missed emission targets
The federal government is asking a Federal Court judge to toss out a lawsuit accusing Ottawa of having no intention of meeting its 2030 greenhouse gas emissions target. In recent court filings, government lawyers argued the Federal Court doesn't have the power to order the government to take steps to meet its emissions targets. The government also argued it wasn't...
Carney government asks court to strike down climate litigation - Ottawa argues courts should not direct climate policy.
The federal government is asking a court to toss out a high-profile environmental lawsuit, arguing that it's not required to update Canada's climate plan to meet national emissions reduction targets. The government also says it's not the court's role to make or direct climate policy, and has filed a motion asking the court to strike the case before it goes...
Federal government announces $34M to help communities cope with climate change
The federal government is spending $34 million for 141 climate resilience projects across the country. Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin is in Halifax this morning to make the announcement. That city is receiving nearly $800,000 to install cooling measures in its parks to help residents stay cool in extreme heat.
Internal DFO memo warns Trump-backed bill threatens right whale survival
Staff at the federal Fisheries Department are worried the United States government is about to adopt legislation jeopardizing the survival of the North Atlantic right whale, according to an internal government memo. The memo was sent to senior officials in the federal department in May and released to The Canadian Press through an access to information request. It discusses a...
Poll suggests some Liberal supporters concerned about climate policy are leaning NDP
A new online poll from the Angus Reid Institute suggests that one in six 2025 Liberal voters now say they would support the NDP. The pollster found that half of these voters cite climate change as the issue that concerns them most. Angus Reid reports that 21 per cent of respondents nationally say that climate change is a top concern...
As concern about climate change rebounds, one-in-six 2025 Liberal voters are migrating – for now – to the NDP
Renewed concern about a changing climate is pushing environmental issues back onto Canadians' political radar and creating thorny challenges for Prime Minister Mark Carney and the governing Liberals. New data from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute finds that, as wildfires burn across Canada, the U.S. and Europe, the proportion of Canadians choosing climate change as a top concern has risen...
Public funding for fossil fuel industry breaks another Liberal climate promise, advocates say
The Carney government's financial support for the oil and gas industry amounts to breaking a federal commitment to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, according to environmental advocates. They say the measures represent further federal backsliding on climate policy at a time when oil industry earnings are on the rise. After the Trudeau Liberals promised to phase out "inefficient" fossil fuel...
As Canada burns, defence spending must go toward fighting wildfires
As we surveyed the sickly yellow sky in Toronto on Wednesday, coloured by out-of-control wildfires up north, we thought back to the burning season of last year. In August, 2025, wildfire did to the village of Kingston, N.L., what two centuries of wars, economic depression and storms could not: wiped much of it off the map. Facilitated by drought (itself...
Old emission plan would have been ‘opportunity’ to ‘pull Canada apart’: Carney
As Prime Minister Mark Carney attempts to make Canada an energy superpower, he is conceding for the first time that the country’s greenhouse gas emissions will be “higher in the next few years” than projected under the previous government’s plan. The admission came in his second “Forward Guidance” video address to Canadians released on Tuesday. “In my judgement, that plan...
A legal challenge opens a new front in the debate over Carney's climate agenda
Activists want a new climate plan from the federal government. Speaking at Trinity College in Ireland last weekend, Mark Carney recalled that Edmund Burke, the influential 18th-century politician and philosopher (and an alumnus of Trinity), had once described society as a partnership between those who are living, those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.
Guilbeault on Carney’s climate plan: ‘He thinks that the markets are going to do it’
‘I was becoming a tool to justify some of the things the government is doing, which I find to be unjustifiable,’ Canada’s former environment minister Steven Guilbeault says on leaving the Liberals — in an exclusive interview with The Narwhal
Mark Carney still cares about climate policy
For a guy who spent much of his career talking and writing about climate policy, Mark Carney has been conspicuously quiet on the subject ever since becoming prime minister. Part of that, I’m sure, is a desire to avoid the mistakes made by the last guy who had his job. And part of it is an understandable need to prioritize...
Former government net-zero adviser 'disappointed' by Carney's commitment to climate
The co-founder of Ottawa's independent net-zero advisory body says she has been "disappointed" by Prime Minister Mark Carney's commitment to climate action to date. Catherine Abreu was speaking at a parliamentary committee on the environment Tuesday, along with fellow co-founder Simon Donner. They both resigned from the federal government's net-zero advisory body in December after accusing the Carney government of...
Climate concern remains high, but affordability still dominates Canadians’ priorities
Between May 28 and June 2, 2026, Abacus Data surveyed 1,910 Canadian adults to better understand attitudes towards climate change, federal government performance on the issue, and how Canadians believe climate action should fit alongside economic priorities.
Will the Alberta-Canada carbon pricing deal work? A new analysis is skeptical
A new analysis shows the Carney government's pipeline deal could lead Canada further from its climate targets, even with an agreement on carbon pricing. The independent Canadian Climate Institute modelled the impact of the new deal between Alberta and Ottawa on carbon pollution. Compared with the emissions trajectory before the deal was signed, the institute's analysis found Canada's emissions would...
Ottawa under increasing pressure to show how policy changes are affecting emissions
The federal government is facing increased pressure to state whether it knows how some of its recent policy changes will affect Canada's greenhouse gas emissions. Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin was peppered with questions on the issue at a parliamentary committee hearing on Thursday. Bloc Quebecois MP Patrick Bonin pressed Dabrusin on whether the government had modelling to show how it...
Steven Guilbeault’s resignation from the Liberal caucus and putting water in your climate policy wine
One word kept coming up this week, as Steven Guilbeault tendered his resignation from a government in which he no longer thought he could do his most important work. The word was “room.” As in: Is there still room on the Liberal benches for an ardent environmentalist? Can the party offer room for pipeline and resource proponents, alongside people animated...
Trudeau's climate policy architects gather as Carney changes course
As Guilbeault resigns, McKenna, Wilkinson and 'Katy Perry's boyfriend' in one room. It was the end of an era and the four politicians who were its chief architects gathered in one room in Ottawa. Former prime minister Justin Trudeau and his former climate change cabinet ministers — Catherine McKenna, Jonathan Wilkinson and Steven Guilbeault — on Wednesday were at the...
Guilbeault quits as Carney turns his back on climate
Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault was, for a time, the right man for the moment. That moment was 2019 and a few years that followed, before the worst polarizing effects and economic shockwaves of the COVID pandemic took hold and climate change still rates as a top political concern for Canadians. Guilbeault, a former Greenpeace activist turned Liberal politician, based much...
Liberal climate caucus co-chair says he ‘absolutely’ supports Carney’s policies
The co-chair of the Liberal climate caucus told the National Post that he “absolutely” supports Prime Minister Mark Carney’s approach to climate change policy. Éric St-Pierre has been conspicuously avoiding interviews about the caucus that he co-created to bring climate change issues back to the forefront of the government’s agenda ever since he gave an interview to Radio-Canada revealing the...
Climate caucus to meet Monday amid concerns about environmental backsliding
The federal Liberal climate caucus will meet Monday night, amid reporting several of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s MPs are concerned he’s backsliding on environmental commitments, sources tell CTV News. Sources also say Canadian Climate Institute president Rick Smith will attend the meeting to speak with MPs. The meeting comes amid reporting from Radio-Canada that more than a dozen MPs sent...
14 Liberal MPs pen letter to Carney raising concerns over environmental backslide
Letter was sent to PM prior to latest pipeline agreement with Alberta. Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault may be the most outspoken, but he's not the only member of his party unhappy with Prime Minister Mark Carney's environmental rollbacks. Carney signed a new agreement with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith last week that could see construction on an oil pipeline to the...
‘It’s sad’: former minister Dion says project approval revamp pitch latest in ‘trend’ of climate policy backlash
Former Liberal environment minister Stéphane Dion says Ottawa’s recent proposal to streamline major project reviews—which some environmentalists say could result in “the most consequential change to the fabric of Canadian environmental law in a generation”—is the latest in a trend of “backlash against climate policies.” “There is the sense that we went too far,” said Dion in an interview with...
Net zero, infinite damage—how policy is undermining Canada
Is Canada on track to meet its climate goals? The honest answer is “no,” and the really honest answer is that Canada’s climate goals will never be reached. They are folly and were designed by climate idealogues who had no concept of consequence, economic reality, or un...
