Joseph Pallant, Director of Climate Innovation Before the COVID-19 crisis shifted our “normal” the climate crisis was already top of mind driving what we need to do to create a better, more sustainable and equitable, “new normal.” I know that an increased focus on achieving Natural Climate Solutions is an important piece of that puzzle, having had the good fortune to witness the powerful role this kind of work has in fighting climate change, supporting biodiversity, and growing healthy economies. Policy opportunity In January 2020, the government released “Canada’s Fourth Biennial Report on Climate Change” to the United Nations, which for the first time includes the impact of human-caused forest carbon emissions in our official greenhouse gas (GHG) projections. The ...
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