Encore
-
Decision on Teck Frontier Mega-Mine Will Test Canada’s Climate Action Commitment
The massive Teck Frontier tar sands/oil sands mine in Alberta is emerging as an early test of the re-elected Trudeau government’s climate commitment, with ... -
Months of Open Advocacy, Direct Intervention Bring Fossils the Election Outcome They Feared
After months of open advocacy, thousands if not millions of dollars in campaign spending, and direct collaboration with the federal Conservative Party that prompted ... -
17 of 37 Cabinet Ministers Receive Climate Action Goals in Mandate Letters from Trudeau
Seventeen of 37 federal cabinet ministers received instructions to address some aspect of the climate crisis, and National Observer says Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson ... -
Moody’s Downgrades Alberta’s Credit While Federal Regulator Predicts Continuing Over-Dependence on Oil
One of the world’s leading credit assessment agencies has downgraded its rating for Alberta, citing the province’s over-dependence on fossil fuels, lack of pipeline ... -
Goldman Sachs Bans New Investment in Coal Mines, Arctic Oil and Gas
Influential U.S. banking giant Goldman Sachs announced this week that it is tightening up its fossil fuel investment policies, promising to “decline financing that ... -
Corporate Connections Drive $4 Billion in Fossil Investment by Canadian Pension Board
With more than C$4 billion invested in the world’s top 200 publicly-traded fossils, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is placing bets that ... -
Melting Permafrost Turns Arctic into Net Source of Greenhouse Gases
As scientists grow ever more certain that the Arctic is becoming a net contributor to climate change as its carbon- and methane-heavy permafrost melts, ... -
Sea Level Rise Could Put Three Times More People at Risk World-Wide
Deploying a far more accurate method than has been used to date to predict future sea level rise, researchers say three times more people ... -
‘Being Rich Matters’ as $7.9 Trillion in Future Climate Impacts Hit Africa Hardest
The impacts of climate change could cost the world’s economy US$7.9 trillion by 2050, according to the latest climate resilience index from a leading ... -
New Delhi Declares Health Emergency, Restricts Car Traffic to Reduce Dangerous Air Pollution
India’s capital, New Delhi, declared a public health emergency Monday and banned some cars from its roads in an effort to reduce alarming levels ... -
Confusion Reigns as California Utility Cuts Power in 34 Counties to Reduce Wildfire Risk
California is getting a close-up look at the challenge of trying to prevent severe climate emergencies, and the costs of relying on a “feeble” ... -
Home Storage Delivers Back-Up Power in Vermont Blackout, and EV Batteries Could Do Even Better
When a major rain and wind storm knocked out power supplies for 115,000 Vermont households on Hallowe’en, the 1,100 Green Mountain Power customers participating ... -
Smart Thermostats Would Save 2.6 Gigatons of Carbon by 2050
Smart thermostats place #57 on the Drawdown list of climate solutions. By 2050, this technology could reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide by 2.6 gigatons at ... -
Logging Costs Ontario 650,000 Hectares of Forest, 16.5 Mt of Carbon Storage Over 30 Years
Despite persistent claims that Canada has a near-zero deforestation rate, Ontario alone has lost an expanse of productive forest equivalent to 10 times the ... -
IEA Drives Fossil Growth, Climate Breakdown with Latest World Energy Outlook
The International Energy Agency (IEA) is undercutting its own, essential role in confronting the climate crisis by downplaying renewable energy options and driving future ...
