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As part of an annual festival celebrating winter, Ottawa’s Sparks Street has been lined in recent weeks with ice sculptures depicting everything from animals and flowers to a Tim Hortons cup. But by the time Winterlude wrapped up this past weekend, some of those works of art had been rendered …
Read More »Manitoba climate change and weather year in review – Winnipeg
2022 in Manitoba began with snow and lots of it. It led to spring flooding across the province and a record-breaking fall. “The all-time yearly precipitation record in Winnipeg was broken in October on October 24,” Environment and Climate Change meteorologist Sara Hoffman said. At that point 739.7 mm had …
Read More »Canada to unveil new climate adaptation strategy today with more than $1-billion commitment: sources
Canada’s first climate adaptation strategy, to be unveiled today, will commit the federal government to new construction guidelines and standards in areas prone to flooding and wildfires. Environment and Climate Change Canada will unveil the strategy — which has been almost two years in the making — in Prince Edward …
Read More »How climate change has helped greener energy businesses take off in Canada
Many Canadian businesses have been hit hard in the last few years by everything from the pandemic to the war in Ukraine and climate change. But for some, climate change has been a boon, in part because of government grants meant to increase energy efficiency as Canada aims for net-zero emissions by 2050. It’s all part of a …
Read More »How B.C. Parks is rebuilding a world-famous hiking trail to survive climate change
B.C. Parks is in the midst of repairing Mount Robson Provincial Park’s Berg Lake Trail — ruined by extreme flooding caused by 2021’s heat dome. The time-consuming, complicated work is intended to protect the park from the damaging effects of climate change. News Source link
Read More »Oily liquid thrown at Klimt painting in Vienna in latest climate protest
Climate activists in Austria on Tuesday attacked a famous painting by artist Gustav Klimt with a black, oily liquid and one then glued himself to glass protecting the painting’s frame. Members of the group Last Generation Austria tweeted they had targeted the 1915 painting Death and Life at the Leopold …
Read More »Putting a price on nature can help municipalities adapt to climate change
What On Earth53:50Putting a price on nature How a small town is saving millions on climate adaptation by embracing nature’s services. Climate action as a public health solution. And can throwing soup at art lead to policy change? On a sunny day in early October, Ryan Belanger, his wife, a …
Read More »Ottawa says it’s willing to hold big banks accountable for their climate pledges
High-ranking Liberals responsible for the government’s climate file say financial institutions will be held to their net-zero commitments — with regulations, if necessary. “Nothing is off the table,” said Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson before a cabinet meeting Tuesday. “At the end of the day, we want to make sure Canadians …
Read More »Meet the B.C. residents training to make their neighbourhoods more resilient to climate change
One of the newest residents in the Vancouver neighbourhood of Kensington-Cedar Cottage is also one of the most enthusiastic about bringing the community together and making it more resilient to climate change. Rosalva Treviño, 36, emigrated from northern Mexico just over a year ago and recently became a permanent resident. Since …
Read More »Let’s get serious about a Putin-era strategy for energy, economy, climate: Freeland
Canada’s deputy prime minister urged the world’s democracies Tuesday to confront the hard economic truths of a perilous new world order and seek common cause in the shared values of prosperity, energy security, protecting the planet, and free and fair trade. Chrystia Freeland delivered an eloquent obituary for the relative …
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