Recycling Failure
This report examines plastic packaging to assess if existing rules are on track to achieve Canada's goal of Zero Plastic Waste by 2030.
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Roadmap to a Sustainable Financial System in Canada
REPORT HIGHLIGHTS Canada can only achieve its climate commitments if finance flows out of climate-damaging investments and into solutions. The federal government should adopt a package of policies that align…
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Our work is based on research, science, and a strong understanding of the facts. Below you will find our archive of reports, guides and media backgrounders that are available for download. You can find our government submissions here.
Plastic Pollution
Climate change
Backgrounder: Report Preview – Roadmap to a Sustainable Financial System in Canada
About the Backgrounder: Co-written by Julie Segal at Environmental Defence, Alan Andrews and Tanya Jemec at EcoJustice and, Adam Scott at Shift:Action, this backgrounder serves as a high level executive summary of our Roadmap to a Sustainable Finance Report set to launch in October 2022. The report offers recommendations for the key financial policies needed...
Toxics
PASSING THE BUCK
Dollar store products, including headphones and children’s toys, contain toxic levels of heavy metals such as lead, cadmium and antimony. Our report reveals up to 30 per cent of products tested at Dollar Tree and Dollarama contain heavy metals such as lead and other toxic chemicals such as phthalates, bisphenols and PFAS or “forever chemicals.”
Climate change
The Running List of Federal Fossil Fuel Subsidies in 2022
Every year, Canada’s federal government gives billions in direct subsidies, tax breaks and government-backed financial support to the fossil fuel industry. This year, in addition to our annual report, we are tracking these in real-time.
Climate change
HOT HOT AIR (and other gases): A REVIEW OF THE PAST FOUR YEARS OF ONTARIO’S CLIMATE CHANGE (IN)ACTION
About The Report: While the provincial government has, on occasion, spoken about the need to fight climate change, it has offered inadequate solutions that it has failed to support with evidence, followed by little action to actually tackle the province’s greenhouse gas emissions – Canada’s second highest. Over the course of the last four years,...
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