Simon Donner

Simon Donner is a professor of climatology at the University of British Columbia.

Articles by this author

Blowing the climate change budget with pipelines

The Trudeau government has embarked on a grand political compromise between fighting climate change and supporting western Canada’s fossil fuel industry. It is hoping that advancing a national climate policy, which includes creating a price …

No party’s climate plan will avoid dangerous global warming levels

We’ve all heard that there are 12 years left to act to avoid a climate catastrophe. What does this mean for Canada? Are any of the federal parties prepared to confront this challenge? To answer …

What do the temperature targets mean for Canada?

At last year’s United Nations climate change conference in Paris, Canada emerged from a decade in the shadows to help build a global framework aimed at preventing dangerous levels of climate change. On the urging …