| Environment and Climate Change Canada
| news releases
Analysis from Environment and Climate Change Canada’s Rapid Extreme Weather Event Attribution has shown that, in all cases, human-caused climate change made heat waves in August 2024 more likely to have occurred. In some instances, it was at least 10 times more likely.
| Environment and Climate Change Canada
| news releases
Today, Irek Kusmierczyk, Member of Parliament for Windsor—Tecumseh, and Terry Duguid, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and Special Advisor for Water, announced one of the largest single investments in freshwater restoration in Canadian history: $76 million to support 50 partner-led projects as part of the Great Lakes Freshwater Ecosystem Initiative.
| Environment and Climate Change Canada
| news releases
On September 17, 2024, 11204572 Canada Corporation pleaded guilty in the Provincial Court of Ontario, in Toronto, to one charge of depositing a deleterious substance into water frequented by fish, in contravention of the Fisheries Act
| Environment and Climate Change Canada
| news releases
Enforcement officers carried out a series of patrols in collaboration with partner agencies, resulting in charges and $35,000 in total court-ordered fines for seven hunters provincewide for offences under the Migratory Birds Convention Act, 1994 and the Migratory Birds Regulations, 2022. In addition to the fines, the convicted hunters are prohibited from holding a migratory game-bird hunting permit, and from hunting migratory birds for a period of one year
| Environment and Climate Change Canada
| news releases
Today, the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, has announced the awarding of $2.9 million to eight Canadian organizations for projects dedicated to environmental education and climate literacy
| Environment and Climate Change Canada
| news releases
Today, Adam van Koeverden, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, on behalf of the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, announced up to $6.2 million in funding through the Habitat Stewardship Program for Species at Risk
| Environment and Climate Change Canada
| news releases
Today, the Goose Moon Table (previously the Métis Nation–Canada Joint Table on Clean Growth and Climate Change) released its first annual progress report detailing the fruits of that partnership.
| Environment and Climate Change Canada
| news releases
The Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, today announced that more than 560 hectares in Mauricie will now be protected by Nature-Action Québec (NAQ).
| Environment and Climate Change Canada
| news releases
Today, the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, announced that, from 2023 to 2026, the Government of Canada will invest over $11.7 million in funding for the Canadian Biosphere Regions Association and the 19 UNESCO biosphere regions of Canada
| Environment and Climate Change Canada
| news releases
Today, the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, will meet with H.E. Susana Muhamad, Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia, to discuss shared biodiversity, environment, and climate priorities in advance of Colombia’s hosting of COP16, “The People’s COP.”
