History from the podium
Ottawa lawyer and federal environment minister Catherine McKenna was a lead negotiator for Canada toward the 2015 Paris Agreement. It was signed by 195 countries and committed them to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. McKenna spoke to the agreement in the House of Commons in October 2016. She emphasized the need to place a price on carbon.
Thomas Homer-Dixon is a professor in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. His research, writing and speaking is focused on threats to global security including economic instability, climate change, and energy scarcity. He believes that human society and ecological systems are under multiple stresses occurring at a rate that is too... Continue Reading →
Hundreds of government representatives are meeting in Katowice, Poland to agree on how to enforce action to limit further global warming. Sadly, some of the world’s largest oil and gas producers -- the US, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Kuwait -- are trying to block progress at Katowice. Canada’s most prominent environmentalist David Suzuki has been... Continue Reading →
