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[Click here for printable PDF]   Key Messages   Perspectives   It is increasingly recognized that effectively conserving biodiversity can be used to achieve transformative change to address other societal challenges, such as climate change, and will be...

[Click here for printable PDF]   Key Messages   Perspectives   Canadians are starting to realize the climate crisis is a water crisis as they observe fundamental challenges related to flooding, droughts, wildfires, and water quality issues Water rights...

[Click here for printable PDF]   Key Messages   Perspectives   Many argue that energy system transitions in the direction of net-zero need to advance wider sustainability goals, such as reconciliation with Canada’s Indigenous peoples The Trudeau...

[Click here for printable PDF]   Key Messages   Perspectives The Canadian North contributes the least to carbon emissions and yet it is the hardest hit by the impact of climate change. The North is also the most vulnerable to energy insecurity, in terms of...

[Click here for printable PDF]   Key Messages (DRAFT)   Perspectives   Canada is one of many states that faces a major quandary regarding its global climate identity. Canada relies heavily on fossil fuel production and dependent industries, such as...

[Click here for printable PDF]   Key Messages   Perspectives   Canada and the U.S. are ‘interlocked’ with one another by overlapping economic, environmental and security interdependences, and share broad perspectives on climate mitigation targets (2030...

[Click here for printable PDF]   Key Messages   Perspectives   Transformative change in urban areas requires that we embrace a broader understanding of what makes for a good life, and develop contextual understandings of what drives existing inequalities and...

[Click here for printable PDF]   Key Messages   Perspectives   National climate policies will need to be able to survive deeply-rooted differences in perspectives about how we should approach GHG mitigation across regions in Canada Differing...

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[Click here for printable PDF]   Key Messages   Perspectives   The federal decision-making machinery is governed by conventional, hierarchical norms regarding decision-making roles and responsibilities, and tends toward closed decision processes in which...

[Click here for printable PDF]   Key Messages   Perspectives   Environmental law has furthered ‘extractivism’, a mode of accumulation that necessitates both a high pace and a large scale of taking, that is non-reciprocal, and that produces intense,...

[Click here for printable PDF]   Key Messages   Perspectives   Each of the three sectoral spheres – the market, the state and civil society – has a logic defined by its governance norms, or the intentions, functions, and rules of interaction by which it...