Two new reports show that Canada needs to do much more to tackle climate change

By H. Damon Matthews, Professor and Climate Scientist, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University

Global climate warming is expected to cross the 1.5 C temperature threshold — the lower limit of the Paris Agreement temperature goal — within a handful of years. This temperature increase shows no signs of slowing, and on our current trajectory, Canada is likely to experience temperatures 5 C above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century.

These are the headline messages of two major climate reports that were released earlier this month: The United Nations Environment Programme’s Limiting…

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