Climate Action/”Blockadia”
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CanadaClimate & SocietyClimate Action/"Blockadia"Energy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National Governments
Critics Demand Financial Review of Trans Mountain Pipeline, Claim Victory Slowing Down Construction
A list of more than 100 Canadian economists and resource policy specialists that includes a former CEO of BC Hydro and Ontario Hydro is ... -
Climate & SocietyClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsEuropeJurisdictionsMedia, Messaging, & Public Opinion
Youth Activists Plan ‘Mock COP’ to Protest Delays in Climate Action
Frustrated by the lack of progress in addressing the climate emergency and appalled by the UK’s pallid efforts to promote the pandemic-delayed COP 26, ... -
BuildingsCanadaClimate & SocietyClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Impacts & AdaptationDemand & DistributionDemand & EfficiencyEnergy PoliticsHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationJobs & TrainingJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasRenewable EnergyTar Sands/Oil Sands
Fossils Troll for Relief as Throne Speech Focus Veers Toward Housing, Income Support
With the latest news and commentary out of Ottawa pointing to housing, employment insurance reform, and long-term care as main focal points for the ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyClimate Action/"Blockadia"Energy PoliticsJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryNon-Renewable EnergyPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Alberta Dials Down Expectations with Softer Mandate for ‘Foreign-Funded Radicals’ Inquiry
The Alberta government may be losing momentum in its crusade against supposed “foreign-funded special interests” working against the province’s oilpatch, with the deadline for ... -
BrazilCanadaCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Impacts & AdaptationClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDrought, Famine & WildfiresFirst PeoplesJurisdictions
Bolsonaro Holds Fast on Defence of Big Ag, Calls Rainforest Defenders a ‘Cancer’
While Brazil could gain two million jobs, US$535 billion in GDP, and 12 million hectares of restored pastureland by “building back better” from the ... -
Climate & SocietyClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Impacts & AdaptationHealth & SafetyInternationalJurisdictionsMedia, Messaging, & Public Opinion
Climate ‘Doomism’ Scientifically Unsound, Politically Devastating
Two years after the release of Deep Adaptation, Jem Bendell’s highly influential paper warning of inevitable societal collapse from climate change, a trio of ... -
CitiesClimate & SocietyClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Impacts & AdaptationDemand & DistributionFinance & InvestmentIce Loss & Sea Level RiseJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasSevere Storms & FloodingSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
Hoboken, NJ Launches the Latest Climate Liability Suit Against Big Oil
In the latest in a groundswell of climate liability lawsuits, the coastal city of Hoboken, New Jersey is suing six fossil giants as well ... -
Carbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Denial & GreenwashingJurisdictionsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOil & GasUnited States
Focus on Personal Carbon Footprint Tainted by Big Oil Spin
The work of reducing one’s personal carbon footprint has long comforted consumers around the world—even if that footprint, as compared to industrial emissions, has ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyClimate Action/"Blockadia"CoalFirst PeoplesJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyPipelines/Rail TransportShale & FrackingTar Sands/Oil Sands
O’Toole Needs a Credible Climate Plan to Win a Federal Election, Analysts Say
Newly-elected Conservative leader Erin O’Toole will have a harder time delivering on his promise to form a national government if he can’t convince Canadians ... -
AsiaCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyClimate Action/"Blockadia"Drought, Famine & WildfiresFinance & InvestmentFood SecurityIndiaInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictions
Asia Risks $4.7-Trillion Annual GDP Loss by 2050 in Business-as-Usual Climate Scenario
A business-as-usual response to the climate crisis will imperil the well-being of frontier and emerging economies by 2050—particularly in Asia, where the loss of ... -
Climate & SocietyClimate Action/"Blockadia"EuropeJurisdictionsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionUnited States
Thunberg Ends ‘Gap Year’, Returns to School
Having spent the past year out of school campaigning against the climate crisis, #FridaysforFuture founder Greta Thunberg has returned to class in her home ... -
CanadaCarbon-Free TransitionClimate Action/"Blockadia"EncoreEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentInternational Agencies & StudiesOil & GasShale & Fracking
Global ‘Gas Bubble’ Has Nearly Half of New LNG Projects Facing Pandemic Delays, Nervous Investors
Investment legend Warren Buffett’s decision last March to pull out of a controversial liquefied natural gas project in Quebec’s Saguenay region is just one ... -
CanadaCarbon-Free TransitionClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Denial & GreenwashingEncoreEnergy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOil & Gas
Pittis: Ignoring Fossil Harms in Business Media Coverage Is ‘Bad Economics’
Canadian investors and the broader public are increasingly demanding energy industry reporting that does not shy away from forthright discussions of the intersection between ... -
AfricaAsiaCarbon-Free TransitionChinaClimate Action/"Blockadia"Drive to 1.5EncoreEuropeInternational Agencies & StudiesLegal & RegulatorySouth & Central America
Litigation Drives Global Policy Change on Climate, Study Shows
Recent high-profile legal cases have marked a sea change in climate litigation, showing that the courts are becoming an increasingly effective venue for driving ... -
Climate Action/"Blockadia"DemographicsEncoreHealth & SafetyMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionUnited States
Heglar: Climate Crisis ‘Hurts Black People First and Worst’
Calls to “press pause” on climate action in order to fight racism more effectively simply further the whitewashing of a crisis that is systemically ...
