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The Ministry of Natural Resources Canada has identified four key priorities for 2024, including creating sustainable jobs and industries, reducing energy bills through home retrofits, preparing for natural disasters, and increasing the availability of electric vehicle chargers. Tree Canada is a non-profit organization focused on planting trees across the country to combat climate change and protect biodiversity. The Forest Stewardship Council works to protect forests by tracking certified fiber and empowering consumers to choose responsibly sourced wood and paper products. Forests Ontario emphasizes the importance of using high-quality, source-identified tree seeds to grow healthy and resilient forests. The text also discusses the benefits of plant-based diets for personal health, the environment, and animal welfare, as well as the potential of plant-based foods to reduce the climate impact of agriculture. It highlights the importance of genetic preservation in conservation efforts and promotes the idea of donating and shopping at thrift stores to reduce clothing waste and support local communities. [Extracted from the article]

This article discusses the Kyoto Protocol on climate change and how since its ratification in Canada few changes have been made to battle global warming. The day after Canada officially ratified the Kyoto Protocol on climate change in December 2002, David Anderson was in New York City to deposit the freshly signed paper with the Treaty Section of the United Nations. It was his shining moment as federal environment minister: an avowed multilateralist and an unabashed tree hugger, Anderson had spent three years battling opponents -- and sometimes cabinet colleagues -- over a deal he firmly held to be a turning point in the war against global warming. Whatever it was about the Kyoto accord that stirred such emotions two years ago seems like a distant memory, to the point where neither proponents nor critics of the deal give it much chance of making a difference in Canada. Since the conception of the protocol in 1990, greenhouse gas emissions in Canada have climbed some 20 per cent (as of 2002), and all signs suggest those numbers have increased since Anderson's giddy time in New York two years ago. But most critics agree on the basic errors that have led us to our current dilemma, where reaching our stated goal of cutting emissions six per cent below 1990 levels by 2010 -- a reduction of at least 240 megatonnes per year -- would require a brand of resolve we simply don't have. Our most grave, and perhaps most foreseeable, mistake was fooling ourselves into thinking we could do our part under Kyoto without inflicting pain on so-called large final emitters.

The article examines the national mood of Canadians as revealed by the election in 2021. Topics discussed include the problems facing Canadians such as school safety and continuity, business lockdowns and vaccine deployment, opinion of the public about the government's approach to the vaccine efforts and Indigenous issues, and claims of Mike Colledge of Ipsos Public Affairs Canada that the government postponed addressing such issues as racism and climate change during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The article considers the possibility of the world abandoning fossil fuels and adopting clean energy solutions on a global scale by the year 2050. Topics include the 2015 Paris Agreement and climate change; creating economic incentives for businesses, governments, and consumers; adopting and adapting existing technologies; and forecasting the impact of such wide-scale changes.

The article discusses the climate policy that Erin O'Toole would likely implement if the Conservative Party of Canada wins power. Topics covered include the approaches used by political leaders facing controversial issues such as climate change, and the possibility that there would be no meaningful distinction between the Liberals and Conservatives on climate policy.

Information about several papers discussed in the meeting initiated by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau along with provincial and territorial premiers in Vancouver, British Columbia on March 3, 2016, is presented. Topics discussed include the decentralization in government, carbon emissions and climate change. The meeting featured notable people including Philippe Couillard, Kathleen Wynne and Catherine McKenna.

Given the growing awareness of the climate catastrophe speeding toward us, one might think humanity might be doing more to curb our carbon-emitting behaviours. But even for the most worried, [...]

From head to tail fin, Maeva Giraudo noticed that the shark's wet body was smooth and firm like leather. She could feel the animal's size and strength. Rubbed the other [...]

The article focuses on the assistance offered by red squirrels to tree seed collectors who supply seed to tree nurseries to grow seedlings in Ontario. Topics discussed include the importance of the seedlings in the Canadian government campaign to plant two billion trees to mitigate climate change, key role of the squirrels in the success of tree seed collectors Chris and Colin McGee, and the efforts of Chris to compensate the squirrels for their work by leaving seeds and nuts in their habitat.

The article focuses on the venture of LeClair Organics in importing and selling the expensive Racemosa and affordable Liberica coffee species in North America during the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics discussed include the role of low supply in the high price of Racemosa, taste of the Malaysian Liberica according to business owner Jeremy LeClair, and possible emergence of the lowland Liberica species as an alternative to Arabica due to the climate change-related difficulty of growing the latter.

In this article the author discusses the strategies that are necessary to stop global warming and to prevent climate change. He states that the environmental movement must approach the problems in a manner different to the battle against air pollution. Provided are details of the significant technological innovations that are needed to stop temperature change.

The article focuses on the transformation of environmental activist David Suzuki and founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. His efforts to fight climate change has become more acceptable to people. Suzuki's engagement with Wal-Mart Canada Corp. has baffled members of his organization which had taken pride in its lack of corporate donors. His appearance in actor Leonardo DiCaprio's documentary "The 11th Hour" and his relationship with Nobel Peace Prize co-winner Al Gore are discussed.

The article discusses the recent spate of books warning that the decline of oil supply will lead to economic chaos, violence and an essential reordering of the world. Books like "The Empty Tank," by Jeremy Leggett and "Out of Gas," by David Goodstein envision a post-apocalyptic world as soon as 2020 or 2030, as oil hits its peak and starts to decline. The article argues that apocalyptic visions like these are cyclical and overwrought, but notes that real responses to the energy crisis are required.

The author blames overpopulation as the cause for climate change. He offers information on a video titled "Nature's Economic Forum" released by the World Economic Forum. He also traces the roots of the belief in African and South Asian countries over-breeding the earth into catastrophe and explores the trend of conflating overpopulation growth with a collapse of the human ecosystem.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles from previous issues, including "The winter that never was," from the March 26, 2012 issue, "Have you finished your homework, mom?" from the March 19, 2012 issue, which discusses mathematics curricula, and "The latest opium war," from the March 19, 2012 issue.

An interview with Arctic historian Shelagh Grant is presented about her book "Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America." When asked if it is fair to say that the historical record shows that every political development in the Arctic is based in climate change, she replies that yes, almost all of them are. Grant comments on why she doesn't think Canada is prepared for China and Greenland's interest in the Arctic. She discusses how Canada obtained Ellesmere Island.

The article profiles Stephen McIntyre, a Canadian critic of climate change and global warning policy. Among a number of issues McIntyre's involvement in a 2003 critique of a 2001 United Nations study of climate change is discussed. Also examined is McIntyre's judicious use of climate change data and his discussion of it on his website "Climate Audit."

The article looks at efforts to conserve Canadian boreal forests. Topics include the 2010 Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement, where forestry companies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) pledged to work together to develop forest conservation plans. Topics include how some of the pledge's signatories have dropped out due to the slow progress of the planning process, the debate over whether joint industry-NGO partnerships are effective, and applying such an approach to climate change.