The Problem
Without urgent action, Canada will experience climate change twice as fast as other parts of the world. Yet Canada has missed every climate target we’ve ever set, and is still approving new fossil fuel projects that will lock us in to future greenhouse gas emissions.
The Solution
By pushing for strong climate change action and accountability, we’re helping build a healthier future for everyone. Through our programs, we’re working to build more sustainable communities, challenging the power of the fossil fuel industry and ensuring Canada does our fair share to fix this global crisis.
Reducing Transportation Pollution
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Aligning Finance with Climate Action
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Stop subsidizing the oil and gas industry
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Put a limit on oil and gas pollution
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Exposing Big Oil's Lobbying Playbook
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Phasing Out "Natural" Gas in Ontario
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Reports
Big Oil’s Big Year: A Summary of Big Oil’s 2023 Federal Lobbying
Gas is Not Green
Putting Wheels on the Bus
PAST DUE: Tallying the Costs of Oil and Gas Cleanup in Canada
PROFITING FROM POLLUTION
What Canada must deliver at COP27
Roadmap to a Sustainable Financial System in Canada
Backgrounder: Report Preview – Roadmap to a Sustainable Financial System in Canada
The Running List of Federal Fossil Fuel Subsidies in 2022
HOT HOT AIR (and other gases): A REVIEW OF THE PAST FOUR YEARS OF ONTARIO’S CLIMATE CHANGE (IN)ACTION
50 Years of Sprawling Tailings
Buyer Beware: Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Carbon Capture Fairy Tales in Canada
Canada’s Big Oil Reality Check
Missing the Forest: How Carbon loopholes for logging hinder Canada’s climate leadership
A Plan For Green Buildings, Jobs and Prosperity for Ontario: Reducing Carbon Emissions from Fossil Gas
What makes a strong climate plan?
Canada’s State of Climate Action
FAQ: Fossil Fuel Subsidies in Canada
Is Canada’s Impact Assessment Act working?
Enbridge’s Line 5 – The pipeline’s ongoing environmental risks to the Great Lakes and the climate
CAR WARS: EVs versus SUVs and the Battle for a Cleaner Future
Briefing: Net Zero Producers Forum
Paving Paradise: The Impact of Highway 413 on Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Air Pollution and Suburban Sprawl
Towards Canada’s Fair Share: New research on achieving a stronger climate target
Paying Polluters: Federal Financial Support For Oil and Gas in 2020
Drawing from Despots
Steady Path: How a transition to a fossil-free Canada is in reach for workers and their communities
Yours To Recover: A Progress Report on Ontario’s Climate Change Actions
Big Oil Reality Check: Assessing oil and gas company climate plans
Briefing: Export Development Canada’s role in bailing out the oil and gas sector
The Logging Loophole: How The Logging Industry’s Unregulated Carbon Emissions Undermine Canada’s Climate Goals
Not Just A Canadian Phenomenon
Green Strings: Principles and conditions for a green recovery from COVID-19 in Canada
Policy Brief: A New Canadian Climate Accountability Act
Still Digging: G20 Governments Continue to Finance the Climate Crisis
Who Benefits?
Canada’s Federal Fossil Fuel Subsidies in 2020
Two Steps Back: How BC’s fossil fuel subsidies lock in carbon emissions
The Biggest Barrier to Climate Action in Canada: The Oil and Gas Lobby
Risking It All: How Export Development Canada’s For Fossil Fuels Drives Climate Change
Public Cash for Oil and Gas: Mapping Federal Fiscal Support for Fossil Fuels
#StopFundingFossils: New poll shows Canadians want to end public subsidies for oil and gas companies
The Elephant in the Room: Canada’s Fossil Fuel Subsidies
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