Science and Learning Centre

Canada’s Future Vehicle Emissions Standard (2024-35): Impacts on Vehicle Size and GHG Emissions

Growing SUV sales are hurting efforts to decarbonize the transportation sector. Thirty-nine per cent of the fuel consumption reductions Canada would have seen from increased zero-emission vehicle sales and fuel economy improvements from 2010 to 2022 have been wiped out by vehicle upsizing.

Turning Tides: The economic risks of B.C.’s LNG expansion in a changing energy market

This report compares the economics of global proposed LNG projects yet to reach final investment decision. B.C.’s proposed LNG expansion carries economic risks because other countries already producing have ample supply at lower prices.

An open letter to Canadian municipalities

Through bylaw reform, enforcement training and community outreach programs, your municipality can transform landscapes into thriving ecosystems with enhanced biodiversity and climate change resilience, improving the quality of life for all residents.

Drilling into the Montney: How LNG Expansion Will Accelerate Drilling, Fracking and Environmental Impacts in Northeast B.C. and Adjacent Alberta

This report examines what’s at stake with proposed fracked liquefied natural gas production in the Montney area in northeastern B.C. and adjacent Alberta. It makes a case against ramping up LNG exports, highlighting climate damage, drastically increased water use and significant land intrusions.

Voices For Strong Clean Electricity Regulations

Throughout February and March 2024, more than 1,000 people wrote personalized letters to the federal government calling for strong clean electricity regulations. This report contains highlights from those letters.

Minding the (research) gaps – DRIVING CHANGE IN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING ACROSS CANADA

“Minding the (Research) Gaps” considers sustainable transportation through climate, equity and finance lenses. Revealing interviews with municipal staff in seven municipalities in Canada highlight 10 themes and five recommendations.

Mapping the Wellbeing Economies Landscape in Canada

The dominant economic system depends on endless growth, extraction and worker exploitation. Wellbeing economies present an alternative and a diverse range of people is already working toward them.

March 2024 Update: DSF Submission on Federal Draft Clean Electricity Regulations

On February 16, 2024, Environment and Climate Change Canada published a public update to the draft federal clean electricity regulations, which considers a number of changes to the regulations.

This document is a technical submission made by the David Suzuki Foundation to Environment and Climate Change Canada addressing these considered changes and other key policy recommendations for the draft regulations. This submission includes a number of reports and resources, and the David Suzuki Foundation’s policy positions on this issue as of March 15, 2024.

State of the Forest Report: Seeing Through the Spin

Canada’s annual “State of the Forests” report is missing key information, including biodiversity impacts of industrial logging, the cumulative impacts of logging and the amount of carbon that is released from logging practices. Experts have set the record straight with their own report.

Defining Forest Degradation in Canada

Canada pledges to combat climate change and biodiversity loss by 2030, focusing on halting deforestation and land degradation. Despite scientific evidence linking forest degradation to climate and biodiversity concerns, insufficient government attention persists in primary and old-growth forests. This undermines Canada's credibility in urging global action, hindering effective, worldwide solutions.

Butterflies in My Backyard Report — Twenty thousand reasons to celebrate

More than 500 B.C. residents signed up to participate in BIMBY this year. They took part in online training sessions on how to photograph butterflies in their communities and submit them to the iNaturalist platform. Dozens of participants also documented the plants butterflies interacted with, making more than 4,000 plant and butterfly submissions.

DSF Submission on Federal Draft Clean Electricity Regulations

The David Suzuki Foundation’s submission to Environment and Climate Change Canada’s online consultation on the draft federal Clean Electricity Regulations. This submission includes a number of reports and resources, and the David Suzuki Foundation’s policy positions on this issue as of November 2, 2023.