Energy Subsidies
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CanadaCarbon Levels & MeasurementCCS & Negative EmissionsClimate DenialClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsEnergy PoliticsEnergy SubsidiesEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentJobsLegal & RegulatoryMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOil & GasShale & FrackingSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Scheer Climate Plan ‘Like Building a House Without a Hammer’, Mirrors Fossil Industry Campaign Demands
More than a year after he promised it, and after weeks of mounting hype, Conservative leader Andrew Scheer released his party’s climate plan Wednesday, ... -
Energy SubsidiesEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsInternational Agencies & StudiesOil & GasPost-Carbon TransitionSolarUnited StatesWind
Oil Demand Shrinks by the Month While U.S. Solar Surges
Two nearly simultaneous market reports this week from the two sides of the energy sector—the old and the new—point to a promising trend, with ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatBitumen BubbleCanadaCanada's Pipeline-Climate Policy ParadoxCarbon Levels & MeasurementClimate Action/"Blockadia"Energy PoliticsEnergy SubsidiesFinance & InvestmentFirst PeoplesHealth & SafetyLegal & RegulatoryPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Trans Mountain Pipeline Approval Triggers New Lawsuits, Leaves Fossils Unsatisfied
In a move condemned by critics as the height of cynicism, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and several senior cabinet ministers announced re-approval of the ... -
CanadaClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsEnergy PoliticsEnergy SubsidiesFinance & InvestmentFirst PeoplesJobsLegal & RegulatoryMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOil & GasPipelines/Rail Transport
CAN-Rac: Canada’s Next Climate Plan Must Cut Carbon Faster, End Fossil Subsidies
Faster carbon reductions, an end to fossil subsidies, more support for international emission reductions, and a commitment to “leave no community, group, or worker ... -
Auto & Alternative VehiclesBuildingsCitiesCoalElectricity GridEnergy SubsidiesEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentInternational Agencies & StudiesOff-GridOil & GasPost-Carbon TransitionSolarSub-National GovernmentsWind
Slow Uptake Has Countries Missing Benefits of Renewable Energy Transition, REN21 Warns
While the industry’s growth in 2018 showed that “renewable power is here to stay”, countries around the world are falling short of the full ... -
AfricaElectricity GridEnergy SubsidiesFinance & InvestmentInternational Agencies & StudiesOff-GridPost-Carbon TransitionSolar
Subsidies Would Help Deliver Mini-Grids as Cheapest Rural Electrification for Sub-Saharan Africa
While subsidies have helped ensure the expansion of national power grid systems around the world, using public money to finance solar mini-grids is less ... -
AfricaAsiaAustraliaCanadaCoalEnergy SubsidiesFinance & InvestmentIndiaPost-Carbon TransitionSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
Canada Earns Praise for Global Coal Phaseout, Falls Behind on Renewables Deployment
Canada earned its share of international praise last month in a report that highlighted the country’s leadership in the global coal phaseout, shone a ... -
CanadaChinaCitiesEnergy SubsidiesEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentLegal & RegulatoryOil & GasPetrochemicals & PlasticsSub-National Governments
Industry Sees No Impact on Demand, Still Urges Feds to Go Slow on Single-Use Plastics Ban
Within hours of the official announcement that Canada would ban single-use plastics as early as 2021, the plastics industry was simultaneously claiming the initiative ... -
BuildingsCoalDrought, Famine & WildfiresEnergy SubsidiesEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentIce Loss & Sea Level RiseJobsPost-Carbon TransitionSevere Storms & FloodingSolarUnited StatesWind
Stiglitz: Green New Deal Would Deliver the Second World War-Scale Investment to Confront the Climate Crisis
Describing the climate crisis as the “third world war,” Nobel laureate and former World Bank chief economist Joseph E Stiglitz is urging critics of ... -
Biden Promises Pushback on China’s Funding for New Coal Plants, Fossil Subsidy Ban
Joe Biden has promised to crack down on China’s coal power spree in other countries if elected U.S. president in 2020. -
AustraliaCanadaClimate Action/"Blockadia"Energy PoliticsEnergy SubsidiesEuropeMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
Beer: Climate Intensity Has Arrived, and Politicians Ignore It At Their Peril
The age of “climate intensity” is upon us, and politicians who fail to take notice are at risk of being swept aside, The Energy ... -
Push Japan Toward Coal Subsidy Phaseout, Abreu Urges Trudeau Government
With Japan chairing this year’s G20 meetings and its prime minister, Shinzo Abe, trying to position himself as a climate leader, Canada has an ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatBitumen BubbleCanadaCanada's Pipeline-Climate Policy ParadoxEnergy SubsidiesFinance & InvestmentHealth & SafetyLegal & RegulatoryOil & GasPipelines/Rail TransportShale & FrackingSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Abandoned Well Cleanup Could Take 2,800 Years, Alberta Regulator Tells Industry
It may take more than 2,800 years to clean up abandoned oil and gas wells across Alberta, National Observer and Star Calgary reveal in ... -
CoalDemand & EfficiencyElectricity GridEnergy PoliticsEnergy SubsidiesFinance & InvestmentNuclearSolarSub-National GovernmentsUnited StatesWind
Ohio House Bill Bails Out Coal and Nuclear, Cuts Renewables and Efficiency Programs
Ohio businesses and homeowners are a big step closer to picking up the tab for their utilities’ uneconomical power plants, after the state House ... -
Climate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDrive to 1.5Energy SubsidiesInternational Agencies & StudiesNational Plans & Responses
80 Countries to Announce Tougher Climate Targets at UN Summit in September
About 80 countries are on track to announce tougher greenhouse gas reduction targets during United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres’ climate summit this September, ...
