Tag Archives: Environment
Manufacturing, importing straws and other single-use plastics now banned
OTTAWA - Canada's ban on the manufacture and import for sale of some plastic items, including grocery bags and straws, has taken effect. As of today, companies can no longer produce or bring into Cana...
Dec 20, 2022
New nature deal needs co-operation between Ottawa, provinces, First Nations: experts
Now that the world has come together for a new deal to protect what's left of the planet's biodiversity, observers say Canada's various layers of government will have to do the same. Ottawa can make t...
Dec 19, 2022
RCMP saw potential wolf-human 'conflict' as zoo said no risk: B.C. escape documents
VANCOUVER - Internal RCMP documents show police sawpotential for human-wolf "conflict" after the animals escaped their enclosure at the Greater Vancouver Zoo in August, while the facility announced th...
Dec 19, 2022
Here are the main points in the global biodiversity deal adopted at COP15 in Montreal
MONTREAL - Negotiators in Montreal have adopted a new agreement aimed at halting the destruction of nature and beginning to repair the damage. Here are six of the main commitments in the Kunming-Montr...
Dec 19, 2022
'Glaciers can't get a break': How climate change is affecting Canada's icy landscape
VANCOUVER - On a mountain high above the residents of Metro Vancouver, tucked inside a north-facing gully, the region's last remaining glacier is vanishing fast. The Coquitlam Glacier has survived 4,0...
Dec 19, 2022
Negotiators reach nature deal at COP15 despite objections from African countries
MONTREAL - Canada and nearly 200 other countries around the world now have eight years to set aside almost one-third of their land and marine territories for conservation under a landmark new biodiver...
Dec 19, 2022
COP15 negotiators heading towards a global nature deal, environment minister says
A global agreement to protect a significant percentage of the world's lands and waters will be reached by the time the COP15 nature convention ends on Monday, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault sa...
Dec 18, 2022
COP15 negotiators heading towards a global nature deal, environment minister says
MONTREAL - A global agreement to protect a significant percentage of the world's lands and waters will be reached by the time the COP15 nature convention ends on Monday, Environment Minister Steven Gu...
Dec 18, 2022
Feds, Northwest Territories to create Indigenous protected area for Great Bear Lake
MONTREAL - The federal government, the Northwest Territories and the Dln Got'n government signed off on a plan Saturday to create an Indigenous protected area around Great Bear Lake. The three governm...
Dec 17, 2022
COP15 nature negotiations racing to finish line but disagreements still plentiful
The draft text of a new agreement to protect nature from destructive human behaviour is still littered with disagreement with less than three days left on the official schedule of the COP15 talks in M...
Dec 17, 2022