Climate Action/”Blockadia”
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Analyst Points to Common Cause Between Yellow Vests, Climate Campaigners
The massive gillets jaunes (Yellow Vest) protests in France may have been triggered by fuel taxes, but that doesn’t mean the participants in those ... -
Climate Action/"Blockadia"Climate DenialClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsCoalDrive to 1.5Energy PoliticsEuropeFinance & InvestmentInternational Agencies & StudiesIPCC ReportMiddle EastOil & GasUnited States
COP Refuses to ‘Welcome’ 1.5°C Report as Major Negotiation Points Bog Down
As the first week of this year’s United Nations climate change conference (COP 24) drew to a close, debate ground down Saturday night on ... -
AustraliaCanadaClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsEuropePost-Carbon Transition
Greta Thunberg Brings School Strike to COP 24, Inspires Action from Canada to Australia
The founder of Sweden’s Skolstrejk för klimatet (School Strike for the Climate), 15-year-old Greta Thunberg, is rapidly emerging as one of the most memorable faces and ... -
Auto & Alternative VehiclesClimate Action/"Blockadia"Energy PoliticsEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsEurope
France’s Yellow Vest Protests Point to Shortcomings in Carbon Pricing Policies
The massive Yellow Vest protests in France are emerging as the latest example of the public pushback that takes hold when one of the ... -
CanadaCitiesClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsEnergy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentLegal & RegulatorySub-National Governments
Ontario Receives Failing Grades for Climate Plan, Misses Business Case for Environmental Commissioner’s Office
The Doug Ford government is receiving failing grades for the scantly-detailed climate plan released late last month by Environment Minister Rod Phillips, while a former senior ... -
Pressed by Investors, Shell Becomes First Colossal Fossil to Link Executive Pay to GHG Reductions
Royal Dutch Shell is becoming the first colossal fossil to link executive pay with greenhouse gas emission reductions, after major shareholders including the Church ... -
Climate Action/"Blockadia"CoalElectricity GridEuropeFinance & InvestmentJobsPost-Carbon TransitionSolarWind
Greenpeace Energy Co-op Offers to Buy Germany’s Lignite Mines, Shut Them Down by 2025
A utility co-op set up in 1999 by Greenpeace Germany is proposing to take over the open cast lignite (brown coal) mines now operated ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaCanada's Pipeline-Climate Policy ParadoxClimate Action/"Blockadia"Legal & RegulatoryPipelines/Rail Transport
NEB’s ‘Redo’ Could Land Trans Mountain Project Back in Court
The National Energy Board’s “redo” of its failed review of the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is taking on the same look and feel ... -
CanadaClimate Action/"Blockadia"First PeoplesLegal & RegulatoryMexico, Caribbean & Latin AmericaPipelines/Rail Transport
Indigenous Opposition Blocks TransCanada Gas Line in Mexico
Indigenous opposition has put at least a temporary hold on a TransCanada Corporation gas pipeline from Texas to central and western Mexico, just a ... -
Extinction Rebellion Goes Global with Call for Net Zero Emission by 2025
Just weeks after it began organizing and raising small donations in communities across England, Extinction Rebellion is spreading around the world, with activists from ...
