Renewable energy can now be scaled much faster and cheaper than fossil fuels, and the political and policy tools that allow citizens and communities to partner with utilities are being deployed at a global scale.

UMSU's annual series of sustainability initiatives will be held March 1 through March 10 and will focus on the theme of greenwashing, the process through which an organization misrepresents itself or its products as environmentally sustainable. The events — dubbed sustainability season — will promote environmental sustainability and feature David Suzuki as the keynote speaker.

November’s floods took a heavy toll on wild salmon and their habitats. How we decide to rebuild could affect wild salmon for generations.

The B.C. government handed out $1.3 billion in fossil fuel subsidies over the past two fiscal years, according to a new report by the International Institute for Sustainable Development, an independent think tank.

Fossil fuel subsidies from Canadian provinces and territories exceed federal support for the industry, triggering fossil fuel production "that may not otherwise occur" and depriving provinces of "millions in uncollected royalty and tax revenue from fossil fuels," concludes a new report.

Canada's four main fossil fuel-producing provinces shelled out $4 billion in subsidies for the industry from April 2020 to the end of last year, a new report reveals.

Provincial governments are still providing billions of dollars to prop up fossil fuels, concludes a new report from the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) tallying subsidies in Canada’s four major oil and gas producing provinces.

Canada's four major oil and gas-producing provinces put at least $2.5 billion in total towards subsidies for the fossil fuel industry in the last fiscal year, according to a new report. The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) says the subsidies undermine the federal government's goal of hitting net-zero emissions by 2050.

A new 98-page report highlights some of the inequities well-known by Winnipeggers when it comes to the suburban-downtown divide. A Voluntary Local Review of Winnipeg was published recently and submitted to the United Nations by United Way Winnipeg and the International Institute for Sustainable Development. The report is one of the first of its kind In Canada — Kelowna, B.C., was the first in the country to submit the report — and shares Winnipeg’s progress towards localizing sustainable development goals or "SDGs."