Adapted from the CCPA’s fall 2023 submission to Canada’s Net-Zero Advisory Body by Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood & Marc Lee

The climate transition is urgent—and it's increasingly clear that governments aren't acting fast enough. How can communities, workers, and movements directly implement a transition?

Climate denial is not just about pretending climate change isn't real—it's also about slowing down the momentum towards real climate solutions.

Remarks to the House of Commons Natural Resources Committee on its study on a just transition

The new era of climate ambition looks a lot like the old era of climate foot-dragging

This budget could herald the beginning of a Pearsonian period of progressive policy making

The pandemic, through the eyes of our researchers

A just transition is far from far-fetched

What the new agreement gets right—and where there's room to go bolder

Gasoline prices are skyrocketing and that’s having a real impact on Canadians’ pocketbooks

Electric vehicles have emerged as the poster child of the zero-carbon economy. If we could only manage to replace all our internal combustion engines with batteries, it seems, we’d be well on our way to a greener world. But is achieving net-zero emissions really that straightforward? And is a society and economy dependent on personal vehicles—zero-emission though they may be—actually the future we aspire to?

The solution to high gasoline prices is to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels altogether

One solution to the transit death spiral is to make transit free for riders and find alternative funding. In the past decade, at least six towns in Canada have made public transit free on local routes, including three in Alberta.

Public transit budgets deserve better than farebox recovery revenue.

Canada’s trade win over U.S. tariffs on solar product imports is a good thing, but a regional strategy for decarbonization is where the money—and climate potential—really is.