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Dec 27, 2021 · Hotter days, crumbling coastlines, rising seas and a reduction in timber supply: a new federal report paints a bleak picture of the impacts of climate change in Atlantic Canada in the coming decades.
Nov 20, 2023 · A new report has found that the top one per cent of earners are disproportionately driving the climate crisis, and researchers are calling for substantially higher taxes on income, wealth and ...
Sep 28, 2022 · The Health Costs of Climate Change: How Canada can adapt, prepare, and save lives (June 2021) Under Water: The Costs of Climate Change for Canada’s Infrastructure (Sept. 2021) Due North: Facing the costs of climate change for Northern infrastructure (June 2022)-30-CONTACT. Catharine Tunnacliffe. Director of Communications. ctunnacliffe ...
- Wealth Inequality and The Climate Emergency Go Hand-In-Hand
- Paying For A Just Transition
- How Did We Get Here?
- Other Countries Are Already Doing This
We’ve all heard the statistics – two years into the pandemic, the ten richest men in the world more than doubled their net worths. In addition, new billionaires are being minted every 26 hours. In Canada there are 41 billionaires, many of whom you’ve probably never heard of. Those 41 people, including David Thomson, Jim Pattison, and Galen Weston J...
The way that our economy is set up needs to change – there are ways to generate prosperity that don’t rely on the exploitation of people and the planet. Addressing wealth hoarding by taxing the ultra-wealthy and corporations is one step towards paying for a just transition that will move us towards a decarbonized economy that enables jobs for worke...
Corporations and the wealthy capitalizing on hard times is not a new phenomenon. Canada’s income landscape has not always looked this way. Through and following the Second World War, as more people (especially women) joined the workforce, migrated into cities, and unionization took off, Canadians saw a rapid rise in income and a trend towards great...
The UK has already implemented a windfall tax on oil and gas companies in light of record-breaking profits in the past year, taxing companies about 25 per cent on profits derived from extracting oil in the UK. The BCC reported that BP alone would pay $800 million USD (about $1.2 billion CAD) in windfall tax in 2022. Several countries have a wealth ...
Sep 28, 2022 · In the last week, Atlantic Canada was hit by post-tropical storm Fiona, causing widespread damage, and Canadians in parts of Ontario and western Quebec are still recovering after a derecho ...
Damage Control: Reducing the costs of climate impacts for Canada pulls together analysis from our previous reports, and new data and research, revealing how costly the overall impacts of climate change will be for our economy, society, and well-being, and how proactive adaptation can address these impacts, leading to a more stable, affordable, and prosperous future.
Dec 8, 2023 · The Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, announced the release of the Canada in a Changing Climate: Synthesis Report, the summary report of Canada’s National Knowledge Assessment of how and why Canada’s climate is changing; the impacts of these changes on our communities, environment, and economy; and how we are adapting.
