Canada has just five years to meet its 2030 climate target: a 40 per cent reduction in emissions below 2005 levels. CBC’s David Thurton covers climate change and the environment for the Parliamentary Bureau, and this week guest hosts a special edition of The House to take stock of why climate experts fear the 2030 goal will not be met. In an age of weakening interest in climate change as other crises take centre stage — is there even the political will to get it done?

This episode features the voices of:

• Mikyla Tacilauskas, Salvation Army outreach and housing services manager
• Simon Donner, co-chair of the Net-Zero Advisory Body
• Nichole Dusyk, senior policy advisor at the International Institute for Sustainable Development
• Dave Sawyer, principal economist at the Canadian Climate Institute
• Serge Dupont, head of Bennett Jones’ Public Policy Group
• Eulalie Reesink-Babillon, with the climate action group Last Generation
• Benjamin Welchner, with the climate action group Last Generation
• Shannon Joseph, chair of Energy for a Secure Future
• Oliver Anderson, vice-president of communications and growth for water charity AquaAction