Join environmental lawyers Anna Johnston and Stephen Hazell to discuss the Supreme Court of Canada’s October 13th judgment on the federal Impact Assessment Act and its implications for Alberta, the federal government, and impact assessment in Canada.

Federal legislation is urgently needed to halt and reverse biodiversity loss, and Federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault agrees.

Stephen Hazell responds to a recent Globe and Mail opinion piece.

Three influential Canadian climate activist-scholars died in 2022. They devoted their professional lives to finding solutions to the climate change crisis in the face of industry and government resistance that has dragged on for decades. This is to remember François Bregha, Meinhard Doelle, and Matthew Bramley.

Nature in Canada is under threat, and the Canadian government is failing to protect it –  recent reports by the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development make clear.

A new Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) is expected to be signed off at the 15th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (the Nature COP) this December in Montreal. But, political disagreement on what the GBF should say and limited international leadership has put the transformative GBF needed to stop biodiversity decline at risk.

Factors such as habitat loss, land use changes, pollution, invasive species and climate change are well-known drivers of the biodiversity crisis. Not as obvious is the key role that colonialism plays in driving this crisis.

While most Canadians are familiar with the term ‘climate crisis’, biodiversity loss - which is considered the twin crisis to climate change - isn’t widely recognized as a pressing environmental issue by the average Canadian.

As we argued before the Alberta court, the Impact Assessment Act is reasonable, justified and falls squarely within federal jurisdiction. The federal appeal has every chance of success in the Supreme Court.

A new report outlines how the federal government is failing to protect biodiversity and proposes a framework for a federal Nature and Biodiversity Act as a legislative solution.