With a national strategy due by the end of the year, the Liberal government published advice from expert panels on what Canada should aim to do by 2030 to get ready for the long-term effects of climate change. Until July 15, it’s asking for public comments on what specific actions the government should focus on first. (The Logic)
Talking point: The strategy’s ambitions are big, aiming to be “a blueprint for whole-of-society action” on everything from financing resilient infrastructure to factoring hotter climate into health-system planning to removing financial incentives to put off adaptation measures—25 objectives in all. “It’s an ambitious timeline,” Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said as he released the document. “The flip side of this is obviously that climate change won’t wait for us and climate impacts won’t wait for us. And we are playing catch-up here.”