A new international report is sounding the alarm: the global economy depends on nature, and the rapid loss of biodiversity is putting that foundation at risk. If businesses and governments fail to act quickly, nature’s decline will accelerate and the consequences will be irreversible.

New data from Environment and Climate Change Canada shows that Canada is far off track to meet its legally binding 2030 climate target. As the first Environment Canada update since Carney took office and a decade since the signing of the Paris Agreement, the report underscores Canada’s urgent need for immediate policy action.

Tyranny advances gradually through small acts of compliance and silence. Snyder’s lessons offers insights for effective governance that depends on independent institutions, professional ethics, and a shared commitment to evidence. This is especially true when it comes to climate policy.

New findings in a report from the Canadian Climate Institute show that proactive infrastructure resilience could save Canada billions annually, making climate adaptation a vital function of responsible governance.

A new report from the House of Commons committee finds that Canada's financial system is not prepared for climate change. We require mandatory rules like those proposed in the Climate Aligned Finance Act, to align finance with Canada’s climate commitments.

Modern-day catastrophes are not a result of unknown risks or a lack of expertise and information, but of institutions that have lost the ability to remember to act on what is known. They are about the failure of institutional memory, otherwise known as “strategic amnesia.”

A night in the emergency room can reveal the cost of policy decisions made without adequate insight. It is clear that Canada’s health care system needs funding models guided by those who deliver care, not just those who manage budgets.

Recent climate data warns the future of our planet hangs in the balance, and that the direction it tips will depend on what governments do in the short-term. Issued as the Dartington Declaration, this warning underscores the urgency for us to rethink how climate science informs decision-making. 

British Columbia's forestry sector is now facing a crisis: more than a century of intensive old-growth logging has pushed these forests into a state of peril. A new report commissioned by the Sierra Club BC, highlights how decades of logging, wildfires, and ineffective old-growth deferrals have left the province's primary forests at risk.

“A moral failure and deadly negligence,” UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warns, sending a clear message to global leaders on the world's inability to limit global warming during his opening speech at the U.N. COP30 Climate Summit in Belem, Brazil.

Canada is at a critical point where today’s choices made surrounding infrastructure, public investment, and policy will determine the country's economic and environmental resilience in the future. Two recent pieces in Corporate Knights make this clear, stressing that these choices will ultimately shape whether we are investing in a sustainable future. 

In a powerful address to the 80th UN General Assembly, Ireland’s Prime Minister Micheal Martin delivered an uncompromising stance on the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, directly confronting the internal community with a strong moral challenge: “To do nothing is not neutrality, it is complicity.”

Ten years ago Mark Carney, warned the financial system of the threats of climate risk, underscoring how short-term financial decision-making locks in long-term climate change. Ten years later, the financial sector continue to openly support the expansion of fossil fuel projects, all the while admitting that it is directly fueling the very climate risks which threaten their own business and much more.

Declining biodiversity and weakened ecosystems are not just environmental concerns; they are economic risks. The UK for instance, will face a nearly 5% loss in GDP due to the ongoing degradation of nature. Businesses require government guidance and a roadmap to align profit with planetary health - a tool known as nature-positive transition pathways.

Our climate finance crisis is not a problem of insufficient funds, but of political will and tax injustice. To address our climate finance shortfalls would require reclaiming tax sovereignty.

Canada must create a coordinated, standardized climate-information system to replace its fragmented data landscape. Doing so will not only reduce transition costs and improve decision-making, but also accelerate progress toward a resilient, low-carbon economy.

The “All of the Above” approach to addressing climate change is outdated and inadequate. It is time we call on leaders to reject vague, politically-convincing strategies, in favor of targeted investments that actually offer clear cost-effective paths toward zero emissions. 

In 2023, the federal government released the National Adaptation Strategy, positioning it as a roadmap to help Canadians navigate the growing impacts of climate disruption. However, a recent report by the Office of the Auditor General of Canada found the strategy to be poorly designed and ineffective.

As the global economy shifts toward a low-carbon future, credible climate transition plans have become essential. Canada must move beyond climate pledges by embedding transparent, time-bound, and actionable transition plans into business and policy strategies to remain competitive and advance climate progress.

A new report reveals that the world’s largest banks provided $869 billion into fossil fuel financing in 2024, reversing earlier climate commitments. The findings raise urgent concerns about the failure to meet climate pledges and highlight the need for stronger governance in climate finance.