In 2023, more than 2,100 Canadian Armed Forces members were deployed across six provinces and territories for more than four months to assist Canada’s worst wildlife season in 30 years. Canada has increasingly integrated climate change into its defence strategy, recognizing it as a threat multiplier affecting military readiness, infrastructure resilience, Arctic security, and operational Read More…
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Toward a “Green Diplomacy”: The Case of the Canada-Germany Hydrogen Alliance
In August 2022, Canada and Germany formed energy and mineral partnerships. This article considers the successes and limits of Canada’s evolving effort to align energy security with the imperatives of climate change.
Curbing Coal Production: Is China Pulling Its Weight?
China’s coal burning contributes a significant amount of the total CO2 and greenhouse gases in the air, but its government claims to be working towards reducing its emissions. Marietta Armanyous looks at whether China is actually making efforts to change its impact on climate change from a negative to positive one.
A Race against Time: Paris Agreement Deadline Looms over Canada’s Slow Moving Climate Change Policy
Why hasn’t Canada ratified the Paris Agreement? Charlotte Le Vay explores why Canadian federal and provincial actors haven’t found consensus on climate change policy to the meet Paris Agreement GHG emission reduction targets.
State of Emergency: Why COP21 Must Succeed
With only weeks to go before COP21 in Paris, Genevieve Zingg examines the dangers climate change poses to human rights and global security.





