Climate

Budget 2023’s new green measures are mostly about bolstering the upstream supply chain

Soil. We have a lot of it here in Canada, with the 12th largest agricultural land holding in the world. Our vast land presents a large opportunity to help combat climate change with sequestering carbon, as well as helping farmers’ bottom lines. Traditionally, agriculture has been all about yield: the more bushels, the better. But […]

Canada’s agricultural skills crisis is already one of the world’s worst.

Canadian farmers manage one of the world’s largest inventories of agricultural land. Canada’s vast area of cultivated agricultural land is the 12th largest globally.

Canada’s transition strategy needs to go past electric vehicles and critical minerals to incentivize critical investment in heat pumps and other clean tech.

Potato farmers, urban planners and mountain bikers are the new vanguard of biodiversity.

Innovation will be key to the low carbon, sustainable food systems of the future. This is Canada’s moment to unlock it.

In this episode, join John as he shares his insights into the successes and failures of COP27 and where Canada stands out.

The backdrop for the 27th United Nations Climate Conference was always going to be an odd one. Sharm El-Sheikh is a beach resort town built by the Israelis during their occupation of the Sinai Peninsula in the 1970s, and dedicated pretty much to the hedonistic pursuits of European and Arab charter groups. Picture a faux […]

Canada’s agriculture and food systems produce 93 megatonnes or just over 10% of our national greenhouse gas emissions annually.

The need to retain fiscal dry powder is set against a requirement to accelerate private investment in clean technologies. – RBC Economics

By 2050, we must increase our food production by a quarter just to maintain our contribution as the world’s population swells.