Federal response to the Supreme Court's Impact Assessment Act ruling is concerning. Proposed revisions unnecessarily restrict federal authority to assess GHG-polluting and transboundary developments. Here are four key amendments needed for stronger environmental protection.

Read the letter cosigned by Stephen Hazell and Anna Johnston to the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada arguing that all projects that have the potential for consequential effects on areas of federal jurisdiction should be subject to federal impact assessment.

Ecovision’s Stephen Hazell and Josh Ginsberg, lawyer and Director of the Ecojustice Environmental Law Clinic, discuss the progress on implementing the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework in Canada.

The City of Ottawa faces escalating climate change challenges and nature-based solutions (NBS) are a crucial tool for mitigating its effects. Ecovision Law Intern Laura Casciaro examines Ottawa's incorporation of NBS into its climate strategy in six key areas.

Join environmental lawyers Anna Johnston and Stephen Hazell to discuss the Supreme Court of Canada’s October 13th judgment on the federal Impact Assessment Act and its implications for Alberta, the federal government, and impact assessment in Canada.

Federal legislation is urgently needed to halt and reverse biodiversity loss, and Federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault agrees.

Stephen Hazell responds to a recent Globe and Mail opinion piece.

Three influential Canadian climate activist-scholars died in 2022. They devoted their professional lives to finding solutions to the climate change crisis in the face of industry and government resistance that has dragged on for decades. This is to remember François Bregha, Meinhard Doelle, and Matthew Bramley.

Nature in Canada is under threat, and the Canadian government is failing to protect it –  recent reports by the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development make clear.

A new Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) is expected to be signed off at the 15th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (the Nature COP) this December in Montreal. But, political disagreement on what the GBF should say and limited international leadership has put the transformative GBF needed to stop biodiversity decline at risk.