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Carbon Border Adjustment Gains Ground as Countries Weigh Emission Cuts, Global Trade
The reference to a carbon border adjustment in the latest federal budget was one sign that countries with relatively strong carbon prices are keen ... -
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Naming Fossils as Climate Champions is Like Tobacco Execs Regulating Cigarette Ads: Berman
A British Columbia legal research initiative and the UK government might just as well have named tobacco lobbyists to oversee health messaging, after two ... -
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U.S. LNG’s Green Profile Depends on ‘Costly, Untested’ CCS
A new analysis cites carbon capture and storage as a “costly and largely untested technology” that U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) developers are counting ... -
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Massive Carbon Footprint May Give Governments a Path to Curb Growth of Cryptocurrencies
While proponents of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin steadfastly claim their operations will be carbon-neutral by 2030, their net impact so far is to keep a ... -
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Germany Pledges 65% Emissions Cut by 2030, Net-Zero by 2045
Germany is boosting its 2030 carbon reduction goal to 65% and accelerating its net-zero emissions deadline from 2050 to 2045, spurred on in part ... -
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Climate Hawks Push for Improvements as Climate Accountability Bill Clears Second Reading
Canada’s climate accountability legislation, Bill C-12, is on its way to detailed review by the Commons environment and sustainable development committee, after passing second ... -
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‘Financed Emissions’ Take the Spotlight as Banks Slowly Begin Reporting Climate Risk
Canadian banks and insurance companies are finding themselves singled out as major players in the effort to get climate change under control, after analysis ... -
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In Conversation: Ottawa is Continuing Its ‘One Eye Shut’ Climate Policy, Carter and Dordi Say
Angela Carter is a political science professor and Truzaar Dordi is a PhD candidate in climate finance at the University of Waterloo. In this ... -
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Exxon Outvotes Other Shareholders to Beat Back Net-Zero Resolution for Imperial Oil
Imperial Oil Ltd. investors have voted 86% to defeat a shareholder resolution that it adopt a target to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. -
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1.5°C ‘Not Impossible’ with Rapid Action This Decade, Climate Scientists Say
Scientifically speaking, humanity can still limit global warming to 1.5°C this century, four veteran climate scientists write for The Conversation. But political action will ... -
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Canada’s Carbon Target Still ‘Insufficient’, Global Warming On Track for 2.4°C, Climate Action Tracker Warns
Canada’s 2030 carbon reduction target is still “insufficient”, the 50% cut promised by United States President Joe Biden is enough to trim average global ... -
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Canada Faces Lawsuits on HFC Exemptions as U.S. Announces Fast Action
The Canadian government is facing a lawsuit and accusations of hypocrisy after allowing chemical giant DuPont an extra two years to comply with restrictions ... -
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Wilkinson Orders Federal Environmental Review for Ontario Highway 413
Environment and Climate Minister Jonathan Wilkinson has announced a federal environmental assessment of the Ford government’s contentious, C$6-billion plan for a new highway through ... -
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Climate Scientists Explain Why Net-Zero is a ‘Dangerous Trap’: Part 2
In their continuing account of the various technological fixes on the road to net-zero emissions, veteran climate scientists James Dyke, Robert Watson, and Wolfgang ... -
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Taxes Just One Tool to Cut Carbon, but Won’t Harm the Economy, New Research Shows
After too many esoteric, technical debates over far too many years, Bloomberg Green columnist Gernot Wagner says the evidence is (finally) in on carbon ...
