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Drive to 1.5 Drought, Famine & Wildfires Failure Is Not An Option Food Security Health & Safety Heat & Temperature India

Villages Evacuate, Leaving Sick and Elderly Behind, as India’s Crippling Drought Deepens

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IEA Could (Finally) Include 1.5°C Scenario in 2019 Annual Outlook Report
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Renewables Employed 11 Million in 2018, IRENA Reports

Bitumen Bubble Canada Finance & Divestment Finance & Investment Oil & Gas Sub-National Governments

Oil Prices Fall, Alberta Fossil Stocks Plummet After Short-Lived ‘Kenney Bump’

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Iowa Democrats Cite Climate as Second-Highest Voting Priority as 2020 Caucuses Approach
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Forest Product Companies See Opportunity in Canada’s Single-Use Plastic Ban

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‘Data is Power’ as Alaska Tlingit and Haida Draft Climate Adaptation Plan
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Ellicott City, Maryland Faces Implications of Two ‘1,000-Year Floods’ in 22 Months

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U.S. Set to Add 17,000 MW of New Renewables Per Year Through 2022
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Annual Peace Index Cites Climate Change as ‘Tipping Point’ for Conflict
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Dumping the Pinstripe Cuts Summer Energy Use, Helps Women Office Workers Boost Productivity

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Radiohead Defeats Hackers by Releasing Pirated Recordings, Donating Proceeds to Extinction Rebellion
Bitumen Bubble Canada Canada's Pipeline-Climate Policy Paradox Energy Politics First Peoples Legal & Regulatory Media, Messaging, & Public Opinion Oil & Gas Pipelines/Rail Transport Shale & Fracking Sub-National Governments Tar Sands/Oil Sands

Liberals to Reject Most Senate Amendments to Impact Assessment Act

Climate & Society

Energy/Carbon Pricing & Economics

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Renewables Employed 11 Million in 2018, IRENA Reports

Full Story: International Renewable Energy Agency @IRENA

June 13, 2019

Primary Author

June 13, 2019

Renewable energy employed 11 million people around the world last year despite slower annual growth in key markets like China, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) concludes in the latest ...

Industry Sees No Impact on Demand, Still Urges Feds to Go Slow on Single-Use Plastics Ban

Full Story: The Energy Mix @theenergymix

June 11, 2019
Primary Author Mitchell Beer @mitchellbeer
June 11, 2019
Stiglitz: Green New Deal Would Deliver the Second World War-Scale Investment to Confront the Climate Crisis

Full Story: The Guardian @guardian

June 11, 2019
Primary Author Joseph Stiglitz @JosephEStiglitz
June 11, 2019
BREAKING: Ottawa to Ban Single-Use Plastics as Soon as 2021

Full Story: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation @CBCNews

June 9, 2019
Primary Author Hannah Thibedeau @HannahThibedeau
June 9, 2019
Kenney Unveils Fossil ‘War Room’, Faces Criticism on Carbon Tax Repeal, Wildfire Impacts

Full Story: The Energy Mix @theenergymix

June 9, 2019
Primary Author The Energy Mix staff
June 9, 2019

Climate Impacts & Adaptation

Heat & Temperature

Drive to 1.5 Drought, Famine & Wildfires Failure Is Not An Option Food Security Health & Safety Heat & Temperature India

Villages Evacuate, Leaving Sick and Elderly Behind, as India’s Crippling Drought Deepens

Full Story: The Guardian @guardian

June 13, 2019

Primary Author Sam Relph @samrelph

June 13, 2019

Families in hundreds of villages in parts of India have been forced to leave the sick and the elderly behind, as they evacuate their communities in the face of extreme ...

India Bakes Under Stifling Heat Wave as Data Show Warming Trend

Full Story: Washington Post @washingtonpost

June 9, 2019
Primary Author Joanna Slater @jslaternyc
June 9, 2019
Big Companies Foresee $970 Billion in Climate Risk, $2.1 Trillion in Gains from Climate Action

Full Story: BNN Bloomberg @BNNBloomberg and New York Times @nytimes

June 6, 2019
Primary Author Eric Roston @eroston and Brad Plumer @bradplumer
June 6, 2019
Study Predicts End of Civilization by 2050 if Global Warming Hits 3.0°C

Full Story: New York Post @nypost

June 4, 2019
Primary Author Ebony Bowden @ebonybowden
June 4, 2019
Mass Puffin Die-Off in 2016 Shows the ‘Ocean is Screaming’

Full Story: InsideClimate News @insideclimate and BBC News @BBC

June 4, 2019
Primary Author Sabrina Shankman @shankman and Helen Briggs @hbriggs
June 4, 2019

Demand & Distribution

Cities

Biodiversity & Habitat Cities Climate Impacts & Adaptation First Peoples Food Security Ice Loss & Sea Level Rise United States

‘Data is Power’ as Alaska Tlingit and Haida Draft Climate Adaptation Plan

Full Story: KTOO Public Media @KTOOpublicmedia

June 13, 2019

Primary Author Elizabeth Jenkins @MrsLizbethJ

June 13, 2019

With no climate plan currently in place in the state of Alaska, and federal efforts focused on the state’s rapidly melting northern regions, the Indigenous peoples of the southeast are ...

Ellicott City, Maryland Faces Implications of Two ‘1,000-Year Floods’ in 22 Months

Full Story: CityLab @CityLab

June 13, 2019
Primary Author Linda Poon @linpoonsays
June 13, 2019
Industry Sees No Impact on Demand, Still Urges Feds to Go Slow on Single-Use Plastics Ban

Full Story: The Energy Mix @theenergymix

June 11, 2019
Primary Author Mitchell Beer @mitchellbeer
June 11, 2019
Great Lakes Due for Extreme Highs, Lows as Climate Change Shifts Water Levels

Full Story: Washington Post @washingtonpost

June 11, 2019
Primary Author Ian Livingston @islivingston
June 11, 2019
Amsterdam to Cut 10,000 Parking Spaces by 2025, Faces No Serious Pushback

Full Story: CityLab @CityLab

June 11, 2019
Primary Author Laura Bliss @mslaurabliss
June 11, 2019

Opinion & Analysis

Canada Energy Politics Energy/Carbon Pricing & Economics Legal & Regulatory Media, Messaging, & Public Opinion Opinion & Analysis Sub-National Governments

Pre-Election Messaging Rolls Out as Ottawa Confirms Federal Carbon Tax for Alberta

Biodiversity & Habitat Canada Energy Politics Energy/Carbon Pricing & Economics First Peoples Media, Messaging, & Public Opinion Opinion & Analysis Sub-National Governments

Ford’s Anti-Carbon Tax TV Ad Backfires, But Indigenous Budget Cut Hits Home

Canada Energy Politics First Peoples Legal & Regulatory Media, Messaging, & Public Opinion Oil & Gas Opinion & Analysis Pipelines/Rail Transport Shale & Fracking Sub-National Governments Tar Sands/Oil Sands

Oilpatch Journalist Debunks Krause’s Conspiracy Theories About Anti-Pipeline Campaigners

Bitumen Bubble Canada Canada's Pipeline-Climate Policy Paradox Climate Impacts & Adaptation Energy Politics Media, Messaging, & Public Opinion Opinion & Analysis

Trudeau: Green Victory in B.C. Shows Canadians ‘Preoccupied About Climate Change’

Jurisdictions

Canada

Bitumen Bubble Canada Finance & Divestment Finance & Investment Oil & Gas Sub-National Governments

Oil Prices Fall, Alberta Fossil Stocks Plummet After Short-Lived ‘Kenney Bump’

Full Story: Globe and Mail @globeandmail

June 13, 2019

Primary Author Jeffrey Jones @the_Jeff_Jones

June 13, 2019

Less than two months after fossil analysts celebrated a “Kenney bump” with the arrival of a new government in Alberta, the industry is still beset by the same host of ...

Forest Product Companies See Opportunity in Canada’s Single-Use Plastic Ban

Full Story: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation @CBCNews

June 13, 2019
Primary Author
June 13, 2019
Dumping the Pinstripe Cuts Summer Energy Use, Helps Women Office Workers Boost Productivity

Full Story: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation @CBCNews

June 13, 2019
Primary Author Don Pittis @don_pittis
June 13, 2019
Liberals to Reject Most Senate Amendments to Impact Assessment Act

Full Story: Globe and Mail @globeandmail

June 12, 2019
Primary Author Shawn McCarthy @mccarthy55
June 12, 2019
Alberta Wildfire Specialist Links Fort Mac Megafire, B.C.’s 2017 Fire Season to Climate Change

Full Story: National Newswatch @natnewswatch

June 11, 2019
Primary Author Colette Derworiz/The Canadian Press @cderworiz
June 11, 2019

Non-Renewable Energy

Oil & Gas

Bitumen Bubble Canada Finance & Divestment Finance & Investment Oil & Gas Sub-National Governments

Oil Prices Fall, Alberta Fossil Stocks Plummet After Short-Lived ‘Kenney Bump’

Full Story: Globe and Mail @globeandmail

June 13, 2019

Primary Author Jeffrey Jones @the_Jeff_Jones

June 13, 2019

Less than two months after fossil analysts celebrated a “Kenney bump” with the arrival of a new government in Alberta, the industry is still beset by the same host of ...