Canada: Climate Change

In 2024, a significant response to BC Hydro and Power Authority's ("BC Hydro's") April 2024 call for power ("Power Call"), along with the advancement of a number of decarbonization...

In response to current global economic uncertainty, the Ontario government recently tabled Bill 5, Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025.

The Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) is making changes to its application guidelines which provide a framework for the growing reality of Indigenous partnership on power generation and utility projects.

Recently, the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines (the "Ministry") posted proposed regulations pursuant to section 176 of the Mining Act on Ontario’s Environmental Registry (the "EBR").

Notice was given on June 4, 2011 that a Climate Change Plan had been prepared by the Minister of Environment pursuant to Section 5(1) of the "Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act". This was the fifth iteration of the Plan required under the "Act".

In January, much of the European Union carbon trading system was shut down in response to the theft of carbon credits from a Czech carbon registry.

The Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) is making changes to its application guidelines which provide a framework for the growing reality of Indigenous partnership on power generation and utility projects.

A review of the federal carbon pricing program will soon be underway after the Liberal government was re-elected in Canada's 2025 election.

Public companies have long developed best practices and legal expertise in drafting compliant securities disclosure documents. With the increase in required and voluntary disclosure...

On December 31, 2024, the Government of Canada released the Guide for Reporting to the Federal Plastics Registry – Phase 1 (the Guide).

The United Nations' efforts towards establishing a legally binding global plastics treaty have encountered an obstacle resulting in recent negotiations coming to an end on December 1, 2024 without reaching an agreement.

In 2024, there were four major international efforts to secure agreement to address biodiversity loss, climate change, desertification and plastic pollution.