Canada will no longer cover travel costs of experts it nominates to UN's climate science body

CBC News ^ | April 12, 2025 | By Inayat Singh

[Oldeconomybuyer]

In a sudden and unexplained change from previous decades, the federal government has stopped covering the travel costs of Canadian experts volunteering for the next major global climate science assessment.

The decision to end travel funding means that Canadian scientists are now wondering whether they can still participate in the United Nations climate science process, perhaps by using their own money or diverting grant funds that could be going toward research and students.

Sarah Burch, a professor at the University of Waterloo who studies climate adaptation, urban planning and governance, is a lead author on the IPCC's upcoming report on climate change in cities. In this role, she's had one trip to a meeting of fellow lead authors in Osaka.

But she's been told no further meetings will be covered.

Deborah McGregor, a researcher on Indigenous environmental justice at York University in Toronto says she will have to rely on funds through her Canada Excellence Research Chair position.

She said that earlier in her career, when she was an assistant professor, she wouldn't have been able to find those funds.

That sentiment is echoed by Patricia Perkins, an ecological economist and professor at York University, who volunteered as a lead author in the previous IPCC assessment, which she said was the first time the agency included social scientists in a big way.

She said that academics in the social sciences — such as anthropology, geography and economics — would have a harder time finding travel funding.

"What that means is that there's a disciplinary imbalance in who has access to more money, because the bigger your grant, the more likely there could be little bits and dregs around the edges that you can reallocate for a trip that relates to your IPCC work," she said.

[UnwashedPeasant]

If they really believe in the Climate Fairy, they should use Zoom to meet remotely.

[ModelBreaker]

Why do anthropologists have to go to climate science shindigs?

[bobbo666]

This is to avoid findings of fraud — like the recent US ruling that some expenses (i.e., hookers) in China will not be covered.
Canada swims in corrupt money via the globalists —originating in the US. This is the only way that totally corrupt country stays afloat. As DOGE digs the criminals will be revealed. Canada taking this step now is simply setting themselves up : “We noticed that and no longer do that (so leave us alone) “.