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Global Plastics Boom Drives Annual CO2 Increase to Seven-Year High
The global boom in plastics was a key factor driving the sharp rise in carbon dioxide emissions in 2018, Greenpeace UK’s award-winning Unearthed news ... -
AsiaBiodiversity & HabitatCanadaCitiesClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsFood SecurityHealth & SafetyHeat & TemperatureHuman Rights & MigrationIce Loss & Sea Level RiseSevere Storms & Flooding
Bui: Time for a Federal Leaders’ Debate on Climate Crisis [Sign-On]
After seeing the climate crisis crash into the two places she calls home, Vietnam and Ottawa, Our Time Ottawa organizer Vi Bui is pushing ... -
Climate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDrive to 1.5Ice Loss & Sea Level RiseNational Plans & ResponsesSevere Storms & FloodingSmall Island States
South Pacific Islands Lead Fight for Faster Carbon Cuts as UN Prepares for September Summit
South Pacific islands whose very existence is imperiled by climate change continue to use the “moral force” of their endangerment to build consensus on ... -
Energy PoliticsFood SecurityMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionSevere Storms & FloodingSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
Iowa Democrats Cite Climate as Second-Highest Voting Priority as 2020 Caucuses Approach
Climate change has landed as the second-highest ballot box priority, right behind abortion rights, for Democrats voting in the all-important Iowa caucuses early next ... -
Ellicott City, Maryland Faces Implications of Two ‘1,000-Year Floods’ in 22 Months
A small Maryland river town which endured a terrifying 1,000-year storm in May 2018, having barely recovered from the one that hit in 2016, ... -
Great Lakes Due for Extreme Highs, Lows as Climate Change Shifts Water Levels
With 2019 precipitation in the region running 150 to 200% or more above normal, water levels in the Great Lakes have risen by as ... -
U.S. Utilities Invest in Technology, Build Customer Trust to Cope with Future Storms, Wildfires
Facing the rising threat of wildfires in the west and devastating storms throughout the country, American utilities say they’re improving their storm response strategies, ... -
U.S. Farmers Fall Far Behind on Planting After Record Midwestern Floods
After suffering through the wettest year on record, and with rain continuing to bucket out of June skies, American corn farmers are desperately behind ... -
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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 ... -
CanadaClimate Action/"Blockadia"Energy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentLegal & RegulatoryPipelines/Rail TransportSevere Storms & FloodingSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
Keystone Wins Court Appeal, But Further Legal Challenges Await
Opponents of the ever-controversial Keystone XL pipeline are exploring “all available legal avenues” to halt the project, after a U.S. appeal court overturned a ... -
CanadaEnergy PoliticsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionSevere Storms & FloodingSub-National Governments
Women, Younger Voters, and Key Provinces Cite Climate as Top Ballot Box Issue
Climate change continues to place as a top ballot box concern in the months leading up to federal election in October, with nearly six ... -
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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 ... -
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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 ...
