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Ottawa Announces $15-Million Lifeline After Ontario Cuts Successful Tree Planting Program
The federal government has tossed an emergency lifeline to Ontario’s 50 Million Tree Program, committing C$15 million over four years after the Ford government ... -
Air & MarineAuto & Alternative VehiclesCarbon Levels & MeasurementEnergy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentOil & GasUnited States
Lobbying Against 2009 Waxman-Markey Bill Cost the U.S. $60 Billion in Climate Action Benefits
The fossil and transportation lobby groups that successfully defeated the American Clean Energy and Security Act, put forward in 2009 by then-U.S. senator Henry ... -
AsiaBrazilClimate Impacts & AdaptationDrought, Famine & WildfiresEuropeFinance & InvestmentHeat & TemperatureInternational Agencies & StudiesLegal & RegulatoryMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOil & GasPost-Carbon TransitionSevere Storms & FloodingUnited States
Big Companies Foresee $970 Billion in Climate Risk, $2.1 Trillion in Gains from Climate Action
More than 200 of the world’s biggest companies anticipate nearly US$1 trillion in business risk—more than half of it in the next five years—due ... -
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 & HabitatCanadaCarbon Levels & MeasurementFinance & InvestmentHydroMethaneOil & GasShale & FrackingSub-National Governments
Quebec LNG Megaproject Would Boost Emissions by 37 Million Tonnes Per Year
The GNL Quebec liquefied natural gas megaproject would increase life cycle greenhouse gas emissions by more than 37 million tonnes per year, a group ... -
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 ... -
BioenergyCanadaEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentResearch & DevelopmentSub-National Governments
Ontario Climate Plan Costs Taxpayers More Than Federal Carbon Tax
The Ford government’s new climate plan for Ontario will cost taxpayers half again as much as the federal carbon tax, according to a new ... -
Auto & Alternative VehiclesBatteries/StorageElectricity GridEuropeFinance & InvestmentPost-Carbon TransitionSolar
EVs Can Halve the Payback Period for Rooftop Solar, Study Shows
Running an electric vehicle alongside rooftop solar can cut the payback period for the solar power system by more than half, according to a ... -
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 ... -
Auto & Alternative VehiclesBioenergyBitumen BubbleBuildingsCanadaCanada's Pipeline-Climate Policy ParadoxCitiesDemand & EfficiencyDrive to 1.5Electricity GridEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentGeneral RenewablesHealth & SafetyJobsNational Plans & ResponsesPost-Carbon TransitionSupply Chains & ConsumptionTransit
Canada Can Hit Paris Targets, ‘Zero Out Carbon’ by Mid-Century, Study Shows
Canada can get its energy system on track to meet its targets under the Paris Agreement and “zero out carbon pollution” by mid-century by ... -
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NDP Outlines ‘Canadian New Deal’ While Trudeau Promises to Support Cities’ Climate Action
Pre-election commitments on climate action were in the air last week, with New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh releasing early snapshots if his party’s ... -
AsiaAuto & Alternative VehiclesCitiesDrive to 1.5EuropeFinance & InvestmentHealth & SafetyPathways to 1.5Post-Carbon Transition
Ban Non-Electric Cars to Improve Air Quality, Extend Lives, Bloomberg Editors Urge
One of the surest ways to improve air quality and extend lives shortened by pollution is for cities to ban non-electric cars, two opinion ...
