Energy Access & Equity
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Basic Income, Just Transition Depend on Each Other, Regehr Says
Sheila Regehr has been chair of the Basic Income Canada Network since 2014. She’s a retired federal public servant with years of experience working ... -
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‘Extreme Carbon Inequality’ Has Wealthiest Driving Climate Crisis: Oxfam Report
The richest 10% of the world’s population accounted for more than half of humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions between 1990 and 2015, and the richest ... -
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Regina Researchers Urge City to Focus on Equity in Climate Planning
When you think of Regina, you might imagine a city that depends heavily on cars. But when University of Regina professor Emily Eaton gathered ... -
BuildingsCitiesClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionDemand & EfficiencyDemographicsEnergy Access & EquityFinance & InvestmentJurisdictionsRenewable EnergyUnited States
67% of Low-Income U.S. Households Face High Energy Burden
Two out of three low-income households in the United States face disproportionately steep energy bills, says a new report from the American Council for ... -
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Barry: U.S. Must Choose ‘Dignified Life’, Regenerative Economy for Citizens in Sacrifice Zones
Millions of Americans live in so-called “sacrifice zones,” where racism and rapacious economic imperatives are robbing entire communities of the fundamentals for a healthy ... -
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UPDATED: Turnover at Finance Opens Door for a ‘Fundamental Retooling of the Canadian Economy’
Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s dramatic resignation last night opens up an opportunity for his successor to embrace a green and just recovery as a ... -
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BREAKING: Morneau Resignation Opens Door for a ‘Fundamental Retooling of the Canadian Economy’
Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s dramatic resignation last night opens up an opportunity for his successor to embrace a green and just recovery as a ... -
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Op-ed: Metrolinx Betrayal of Toronto Neighbourhood Another ‘Ugly Form’ of Systemic Racism
After agreeing long ago to donate land so that Toronto’s impoverished but determined-to-flourish Jane-Finch neighbourhood could build a cultural and community hub, transit agency ... -
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Alberta’s Fossil Tax Relief Plan Downloads Financial Pain to Small Communities
Alberta’s United Conservative Party is considering relieving the province’s oil and gas operators of their obligation to pay municipal property taxes, an act of ... -
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Racial Inequities Must Be Solved in Tandem with Climate, U.S. Campaigner Stresses
While she credits Joe Biden’s effort to address racial inequities in tandem with the climate crisis, climate policy analyst Rhiana Gunn-Wright is urging the ... -
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Pandemic and climate crises unmask inequalities
A chorus of world leaders has declared we’re all in the same COVID-19 boat. In response, U.K. writer Damian Barr tweeted, “We are not ... -
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Overheated U.S. Cities Face Misery as Pandemic Closes Summer Cooling Centres
Pandemic closures and fears are causing acute suffering for the millions of impoverished American households who, lacking air conditioning, typically escape summer heat in ... -
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Adow: UK’s Mozambique Pipeline Plan Is Morally, Financially Negligent
As the Boris Johnson government debates greenlighting a billion-pound loan guarantee for a gas pipeline project in Mozambique, Mohamed Adow of Power Shift Africa ... -
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Global Development Banks’ Recovery Plans Must Omit Fossil Funding, Advocates Say
When 450 global development banks with their hands on US$2 trillion in public funds meet in November to chart their contribution to the pandemic ... -
Study Shows Energy Costing More for Black American Households
Black American households continue to pay substantially more for energy than whites, pointing to yet another injustice radiating outwards from generations of racial segregation ...
