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

A new nuclear reactor. A natural gas pipeline extension. Thousands of offshore wind turbines. Atlantic provinces have ambitious ideas to generate and transmit more energy across Canada, all under one banner. As Prime Minister Mark Carney renews his call for nation-building projects to strengthen the Canadian economy, will this network of ideas, the Eastern Energy Partnership, make the cut? And how realistic – and expensive – are these plans?

CBC's provincial affairs reporter in New Brunswick Jacques Poitras speaks to New Brunswick's premier and the federal minister in charge of the Atlantic, Sean Fraser, as well as First Nations leaders, experts and stakeholders about what it could mean for power in eastern Canada for generations to come.

This episode features the voices of:

• John Herron, New Brunswick Minister of Natural Resources
• Joanna Bernard, New Brunswick Regional Chief for the Assembly of First Nations
• Chief Terry Richardson, Pabineau First Nation
• Brad Coady, vice-president of business development for NB Power
• Lori Clark, President and CEO of NB Power
• David Coon, leader of the Green Party of New Brunswick
• Heidi Leslie, CEO of Crux Energy Consulting
• Scott Urquhart, CEO of Aegir Insights
• Larry Hughes, energy expert at Dalhousie University
• Susan Holt, premier of New Brunswick
• Sean Fraser, minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency

If you want to stay up to date this summer on everything going on in the world, The House is recommending As It Happens. Meet people at the centre of the day’s most hard-hitting, hilarious, and heartbreaking stories – powerful leaders, proud eccentrics, and ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. And plenty of puns too.

In this episode:

One day after the UK makes a similar statement, Ottawa announces plans to recognize Palestinian statehood in September. We'll reach Canada's former Ambassador to the United Nations.

The head of the Stephen Lewis Foundation tells us what a new million-dollar donation will mean for organizations whose capacity to help was suddenly slashed when the Trump Administration cut billions in USAID funding.

A Maui resident tells us he and his neighbours were lucky to avoid any major damage after living through a tsunami warning last night. But that doesn't mean they should be any less prepared next time.

A St. John's fire chief tells us about the fires that destroyed two historic fishing stages last night and how it felt to watch them burn, helpless to stop the flames.

Canada's 18-year-old swimming sensation Summer McIntosh is chasing five individual golds this week at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore. Her mother, a former Olympic swimmer herself, tells us what it's like to watch her daughter lean all the way in.

A man in Argentina was shocked, outraged and then really, really embarrassed after a Google Street View camera captured him in his yard – fully naked with his bottom on full display.

As It Happens, the Wednesday Edition. Radio that imagines he'll be happy when the whole incident is in the rearview.

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