Media Backgrounder: Expectations for Canada at COP26
About The Backgrounder: This briefing lays out Environmental Defence’s expectations for Canada at the COP. At any point during those two weeks, Canada can act…
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Climate change
Climate change
Letter on the federal government’s commitment to ban thermal coal exports
About The Submission: This letter signed by 49 environmental and health organizations, representing nearly three million people across Canada to the Prime Minister. We urge…
Plastic Pollution
Submission to the Government of Ontario re: Alternative Low Carbon Fuels
About The Submission: Environmental Defence supports the phasing out of coal use in Ontario. However, we believe the Alternative Fuels regulation creates the potential for…
Climate change
Submission to Finance Canada re: CCUS Consultation
About The Submission: Environmental Defence is deeply concerned with the proposal to introduce a new investment tax credit for carbon capture and storage (CCS). Carbon…
Government
Backgrounder: Environmental Priorities for Election 2021
About The Backgrounder: As the country heads towards an election, it has never been clearer to Canadians that the climate crisis is at our doorstep….
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