Confronting the Climate Crisis

Confronting the Climate Crisis explores local and global challenges, responsibilities and solutions in a climate change era.

Gwynne Dyer was right: climate change is making us sick and desperate

As the planet continues to warm, climate change is posing a growing threat to human health and global insecurity, as the Newfoundland author wrote in his 2009 book Climate Wars. If current climate commitments are an indication, however, don’t expect an adequate solution in Paris this December unless countries make short-term commitments to cope with the climate crisis.

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Renewables: the nexus between climate change and the economy

As governments around the world are undergoing a paradigm shift by decarbonizing their economies and moving into the clean renewable era, Canada is on the brink of a structural transformation in its economy and its politics.