Canada has a chance to lead on the world stage with an improved Nature Accountability Act

Bill C-73 is a much-needed piece of legislation that would give the National Biodiversity Strategy legal teeth, and make it enforceable by the courts.

Canada hosted COP15 in Montreal in December 2022 where 196 countries signed onto the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, but the government has a poor track record when it comes to keeping its biodiversity promises, write Senator Rosa Galvez, Kristen Walters, and Akaash Maharaj. Photograph courtesy of UN Biodiversity/Flickr

Opinion

BY ISG SENATOR ROSA GALVEZ, KRISTEN WALTERS, AKAASH MAHARAJ

July 29, 2024

Canada contains some of the most globally significant ecosystems; our country is home to 80,000 species, 300 of which occur nowhere else in the world. It also hosts nine per cent of the world’s total forest cover, 25 per cent of the world’s wetlands, and the longest coas...

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