Environment & Climate Change

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A Sleeping Giant: Why Permafrost Is a Climate Threat

| Jan. 17, 2022

Permafrost covers a quarter of the Northern Hemisphere's land and stores twice as much organic carbon as Earth's atmosphere currently holds. What happens when it starts to thaw? TVOntario's "The Agenda with Steve Paikin" examines the climate threat of thawing permafrost, and why northern roads and communities find themselves on shaky ground.

Smog over Beijing's Forbidden City

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China Leads on Climate

| Oct. 16, 2020

At the annual UN General Assembly, President Xi of China pledged that his nation would peak its carbon emissions before 2030 and hit net zero emissions by 2060, without revealing how the nation plans to reach those goals. Joe Aldy, an economist and Professor of Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School, joins Host Steve Curwood to discuss what this step by the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter means for international climate policy in the context of the failed climate leadership by the Trump Administration.