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Prime Minister Trudeau just negotiated an agreement for a pan-Canadian framework on clean growth and climate change that meets, or exceeds, the 2030 goal of reducing.

This article and this other one typify the divides we have in our country about climate change. In order to move off our current development path, we have to discover common ground and bridge these divides on the more sustainable ways to move forward.

What if art had the power to regenerate life? One artist has found a way to help save damaged or destroyed coral reefs through sculpture. Over the course of 10 years, Jason DeCaires Taylor has perfected a pH neutral concrete recipe used in the production of underwater figures. These works not only support marine life by providing places to hide, grow, and breed, but they also sustain coral growth.

This is a new column exploring different concepts that we use when we talk and write about space and geography.

By: Shoshana Schwebel, Research Designer 

It’s pretty exciting seeing animals up close, but at what cost? Just last week, two beluga whales living in captivity died at the Vancouver Aquarium.

At the latest United Nations COP 21 Climate Summit, issues around water provided a realistic focus for moving forward on climate action. This is a brilliant strategy , since the problem with climate change is making it ‘real’ for people. Focusing on water, essential for all life, may engage people and their communities into acting now, for politicians will not act until they ‘see’ votes through an engaged constituencies.

Dane-zaa First Nations artist, Brian Jungen, sees more than just the mundane everyday objects that clutter our homes. He sees representations of culture and reflections of values. He sees inauthenticity in mass produced goods contrasting rare, significant ceremonial objects.

Image via news digest of the Canadian Association of Geographers

This past Friday, the Federal Government released its 87 page long-term climate strategy with a caution that “Most Canadians recognize the need to mitigate climate change and limit the increase in the global average temperature, but the magnitude of the challenge is less well understood, with a requirement for very deep emissions cuts from every sector by mid-century”. The strategy says that global emissions reductions of between 70 and 95 percent are required in order to have a better than 50-50 chance of hitting the 1.5 degree temperature target.

“What we can do is stop thinking about property in exclusively human terms and extend the concept beyond the human species.” — John Hadley, The Guardian