Canada misses opportunity for climate justice

Guided by its new feminist international assistance policy and indeed the celebrated words of Prime Minister Trudeau in 2015, Canada can do more to ensure its international climate change investments strike a balance between longer-term mitigation efforts and helping those adapt to a changing climate today.

In November 2015, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured recently on the Hill leaving the House Chamber, announced $2.65-billion over five years to 'support the efforts and actions of the poorest and most vulnerable countries to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SHAUGHN MCARTHUR

November 27, 2017

Rarely before have the challenges posed by climate change felt so widespread, immediate and severe. In the last year, we saw three hurricanes hang over the Caribbean at once and drought trigger a hunger crises in multiple countries in Africa. At home, wildfires set parts of British Columbia ablaze...

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