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Multiple generations of little multi-coloured animated blobs.

Guardianship governance: representing future generations in decision-making

Close-up shots of the group of young people and children standing in front of a stone building during an outdoor public gathering.

Children’s rights: How to make justice truly accessible

Person at a laptop handling a stylus while a caption overlaying the image says "buy sell carbon credit."

One simple fix for Canada’s industrial carbon pricing systems

Mark Carney speaking at a podium, viewed from the side, with dark background.

Carney’s industrial bet: Building Canada’s future while cutting the public service

Dirt roads ribbon a brown landscape in the foreground with a large terraced open pit cut into the ground in the background.

What 50 years of buried data tell us about Canada’s mining oversight

The metal structure is several storeys high with a metal ladder on one side leading to the top.

What is going on with Alberta’s climate-change strategy?

An overhead view of a tanker stopped in open water along the B.C. coast.

Rethinking Canada’s oil tanker ban for a new era of reconciliation

An aerial view of Jasper, with several sections of the town now gravel pads.

Canada’s economic success is at risk from weak climate adaptation

One hand holds the earth while the other holds pieces of gold. In the background a dark sky is over drought-stricken land. 

Progressives, conservatives and climate change

An oil pump in the foreground with wind turbines in the background.

Optimizing Canada’s policy toolbox for clean growth

A critical look at critical minerals

The net-zero shell game

Heritage properties need not be sacrificed for housing growth

The circular opportunity to fix food waste

Too soon to celebrate progress in reducing methane gas emissions

Green beans, potatoes, carrots and corn are sorted into plastic bags for distribution. 

How gleaning food addresses greenhouse gas emissions and food insecurity

Rising electricity demand will complicate electrification and decarbonization

Moving Canadian municipalities to the forefront of decarbonization

Printed promotional materials for the federal government’s Critical Minerals Strategy and a decision allowing the construction of a small modular nuclear reactor.

Federal gifts for the nuclear and mining industries

The good and bad news from a public opinion researcher

Home decarbonization requires tailored policies

Emissions from destruction of nature hidden by rhetoric

Brownfield redevelopment is a better alternative than urban sprawl

Four steps to jump-start Canadian climate policy

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