Nov 21, 2023 / Climate Change / Federal Climate / Protecting Ontario’s environment / Safeguarding Freshwater / Transition
Environmental Defence Experts React to the Federal Fall Economic Statement
Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – Various experts at Environmental Defence offer their reactions to today’s Federal Fall Economic…Read More
Oct 12, 2023 / Plastic Pollution
Statement: Ontario’s Hydrogen Investments are Dangerous Subsidies Masquerading as Climate Action
Statement from Keith Brooks, Programs Director Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat –…Read More
Apr 28, 2023 / Climate Change / Plastic Pollution / Toxics
Where do the world’s wealthiest nations stand when it comes to the most important environmental issues of our time: climate change, biodiversity loss and…Read More
Nov 04, 2021 / Climate Change
Canada joins historic commitment to end international fossil fuel finance by end of 2022
ABOVE GROUND, ASIAN’S PEOPLES MOVEMENT FOR DEBT AND DEVELOPMENT, CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INTERNATIONAL, ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, GREENPEACE CANADA, INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, OIL CHANGE…Read More
Aug 26, 2021 / Climate Change / Federal Climate / Movement Building / Safeguarding Freshwater / Toxics
Environmental Defence expert spokespeople are available to comment on climate change and other environmental issues including plastic pollution and toxic chemicals in our air…Read More
Apr 15, 2021
In advance of the federal budget, a new report from Environmental Defence shows that the federal government and its agencies increased financial support for…Read More
Apr 15, 2021 / Climate Change
Paying Polluters: How much Canada gave in federal financial support for oil and gas in 2020
A new report released today by Environmental Defence – Paying Polluters: Federal Financial Support to Oil and Gas in 2020 – reveals that despite…Read More
Mar 24, 2021
Statement from Julia Levin on the United Kingdom ending public finance for overseas fossil fuels
Ottawa, Ont. – The UK took a groundbreaking step by announcing it will no longer provide financial support for overseas fossil fuel projects. With…Read More
Mar 24, 2021 / Federal Climate
Statement from Julia Levin on the United Kingdom ending public finance for overseas fossil fuels
Ottawa, Ont. – The UK took a groundbreaking step by announcing it will no longer provide financial support for overseas fossil fuel projects. With…Read More
Feb 04, 2021 / Climate Change
US, UK and EU leadership pressures Canada to end fossil finance
If Canada doesn’t stop funding fossils, the public will be stuck holding the bag. Last week, among the climate promises made by the Biden-Harris…Read More