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Features | December 2020

Will a Ban Cure the Plastics Problem?

Will a Ban Cure the Plastics Problem?

The federal government is on track to proceed with its ban of single-use plastics across Canada by the end of 2021, as part of its plan to achieve zero plastic waste by 2030. The items to be banned...

 Alanna Mackenzie 

Climate Change: Liability Issues of Local Governments

Climate Change: Liability Issues of Local Governments

Regulatory Liability and the Defence of Due Diligence

Adrienne Atherton & Kelsey Stuckert

Tragedy of the Climate Crisis

Tragedy of the Climate Crisis

Other ways to take action toward climate solutions

Lisa Picotte-Li

What’s the Deal with the Paris Climate Agreement?

What’s the Deal with the Paris Climate Agreement?

When the Paris Agreement came into force in November 2016, it marked the start of a renaissance period for climate change policy, one that represents a global paradigm shift toward a lower-carbon...

Selina Lee-Andersen

Please Keep Your Garbage Out of My Patch

Please Keep Your Garbage Out of My Patch

In recent months, ecotourism operators, working with Indigenous Nations, removed 130 tonnes of garbage from British Columbia’s coastline. This garbage consisted mainly of plastics. On October...

Jennifer Griffith

Barriers to Climate Action in Municipalities

Barriers to Climate Action in Municipalities

Local governments bear the direct impacts of climate change and are faced with addressing their communities’ unique needs with limited resources and legislative authority. For example...

Carrie Moffatt

A Changing Tide

A Changing Tide

Protecting our common heritage to Earth’s oceans in the climate change era

Maya Stano

The Need for a Canadian Climate Test

The Need for a Canadian Climate Test

For years, the question of whether a particular project’s greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions are at odds with Canada’s climate promises has plagued climate activists...

Anna Johnston

Protecting Biodiversity Requires Paradigm Shift in Forestry

Protecting Biodiversity Requires Paradigm Shift in Forestry

Protecting the biodiversity of British Columbia’s forests, and managing those forests through impending climate change, will require more than ad hoc measures, such as cordoning off protected...

Sean Jones

Microplastics and Climate Change

Microplastics and Climate Change

Regulatory response to the current science

Jessica Wilson & Karissa Kelln

Canadian and Foreign Climate Litigation Survey

Canadian and Foreign Climate Litigation Survey

Canadian courts are hearing climate litigation across various legal areas. Foreign courts have already confronted several similar cases. Canada’s courts (like its governments) have been...

Dustin Klaudt

What’s the Point of Climate Change Litigation?

What’s the Point of Climate Change Litigation?

A common line of argument for defendants in climate change litigation is that any Greenhouse Gas (“GHG”) emissions a particular defendant is responsible for is miniscule compared...

David W L Wu

A Heads Up on Climate Accountability in BC

A Heads Up on Climate Accountability in BC

By March 31, 2021, the BC government is required — by law — to establish “greenhouse gas emissions (“GHG”) targets for individual sectors” of the BC economy...

Matt Hulse & Julia Croome

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