Climate change action top priority for universities and colleges in 2020 budget

With the clock ticking on the Paris Agreement commitments, universities and colleges see infrastructure and research as key ways they can tackle climate change.

The PEARL research station on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut is the northernmost facility for various types of ground-based atmospheric research. Scientists are struggling to get funding to do research at the station.Photo courtesy of Dan Weaver

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BY AIDAN CHAMANDY

September 9, 2019

On the heels of the federal government declaring a climate emergency and polls showing climate change as top of mind for voters heading in to the election, universities, colleges, and post-secondary education-related advocacy organizations are asking the federal government for more money to help pos...

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