Law and Politics

In Canada, adaptation scientists emphasize how challenging decision-making is (Boyd and Markandya, 2021). More specifically, the main challenges involve bringing together an economic appraisal for a diversity of risks emerging from climate change, in order to estimate the costs of inaction, but also the costs of adaptation solutions as well as their effectiveness and impacts,…

At the conclusion of the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, November 6–18, 2022), countries agreed to set up a new fund to support vulnerable countries suffering losses and damage from climate change (UNFCCC 2022a, para. 3; 2022b, para. 46). Although…

Climate and Health: A Time Bomb Climate change represents one of the greatest challenges in human history. It brings into question the right to health, which is a fundamental human right (WHO and Health Canada, 2021). According to the World Health Organization (WHO), climate change will cause an additional 250,000 deaths per year by the…