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A new year approaches, and with it comes new policies aimed at tackling the inextricably linked climate and ecological crises. Here is your weekly roundup of all the latest news concerning climate change, biodiversity loss, and the steps leaders are taking to address these issues. In climate news: • B.C. Parks Foundation buys up key riverfront along Fraser River • Canadian polar bears near ‘bear capital’ dying at fast rate as ice melts • How can B.C. achieve conserving 30 per cent of land and water by 2030? The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has warned for a decade that wildfires, drought, severe weather, such as B.C.’s deadly heat dome and catastrophic flooding in 2021, would become more frequent and more intense because of the climate crisis. The panel has issued a “code red” for humanity and last year it said the window to stop global warming from exceeding 1.5 C was closing. In April 2022, it released a report with solutions for how to drive down greenhouse gas emissions, mainly by transitioning away from fossil fuels. There is a scientific consensus on climate change (NASA reports that 97 per cent of climate scientists agree that the climate […]
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