Elizabeth MayFormer Canadian Green Party leader and regular Policy contributor Elizabeth May has been filing all week from COP25 in Madrid. This is her final dispatch. Elizabeth May Dec.…
Former Canadian Green Party leader and regular Policy contributor Elizabeth May is filing all week from COP25 in Madrid. This is her fourth dispatch. Elizabeth May participating in…
Former Canadian Green Party leader and regular Policy contributor Elizabeth May is filing all week from COP25 in Madrid. This is her third dispatch. Elizabeth May with New…
Former Canadian Green Party leader and regular Policy contributor Elizabeth May will be filing all week from COP25 in Madrid. This is her first dispatch. Elizabeth May Dec.…
December 04, 2019 OTTAWA — The three federal Green MPs have set out the key challenges looming for the Liberal minority government. They fall into two distinct, but…
Blog #1 – https://twitter.com/CanadianGreens/status/1071818549876920320 Blog #2 – https://twitter.com/CanadianGreens/status/1072210014448836608 Blog #3 – https://twitter.com/CanadianGreens/status/1072640229742235648
When I was in my twenties, and living in a one room log cabin in Cape Breton with my parents and brother, we heated with an old stove,…
Elizabeth May Mr. Speaker, the warnings of climate scientists are becoming increasingly urgent and worrying. The most recent, days ago, was that the world was watching the weakening…
Climate action as a technical slow motion process November 14, 2017 This is an in between sort of COP. I have said for years that there are “good…
Mr. Speaker, I thank all members of the House for participating in this important discussion and debate on the Paris agreement. Obviously, the Paris agreement is a historic…
(OTTAWA) September 19, 2016 – The Green Party of Canada released the following statement following the announcement Sunday morning by Environment and Climate Change Minister, the Hon. Catherine McKenna,…
The context of our current challenge in the intertwined imperative for both a strong climate and energy strategy is embedded in former prime minister Stephen Harper’s record. We…
I write this from the train heading back from New York to Canada. The last time I made this trip was September 2014, coming home from the Peoples’…
By Christopher Majka February 27, 2016 Source: rabble.ca Elizabeth May is once again alone. For a period of almost two years she was joined on the Green Party…
(OTTAWA) February 24, 2016 – The Green Party of Canada supports a coalition of environmental groups across North America calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to implement an evidence-based…
It is the day after the tumultuous conclusion of the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In many…
In the election campaign the Trudeau Liberals’ climate platform lacked any commitment to specific targets and lacked any climate plan. They pledged to end all fossil fuel subsidies…
By Michael D. Reid December 13, 2015 Publication source: Times Colonist The 195 nations that reached a climate agreement on Saturday in Paris have moved the world closer…
The morning after 13 days- 3 all nighters… And the Paris Agreement is accepted. The COP21 decision is agreed. What does it all mean? I have been working…
Yesterday, December 11th, was a day of suspended animation. So forgive me for not writing my daily blog yesterday. To make up for it, you’ll likely get two…
After 5 hours of commentary, complaint and suggested possibilities for compromise, the informal round of talks called an “indaba” broke up at 5 am. If President Fabius (who…
(OTTAWA) December 9, 2015 –The Green Party of Canada group at COP21 is encouraged by the constructive atmosphere as the negotiations enter the final days. “It is critical…