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Auto & Alternative VehiclesCanadaClimate & SocietyClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsCoalDemand & DistributionElectricity GridEnergy SubsidiesFinance & InvestmentInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictionsNon-Renewable Energy
Canada Boosts Finance Commitment as G7 Falls Short on Climate, Vaccines
G7 leaders have tied up a weekend summit in Cornwall, United Kingdom that produced a still-vague collective promise on international climate finance, pledges to ... -
CanadaCCS & Negative EmissionsClimate & SocietyClimate Denial & GreenwashingEnergy SubsidiesFinance & InvestmentHydrogenJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyNuclearRenewable EnergyTar Sands/Oil Sands
Fossils’ ‘Net-Zero’ Alliance Has No Phaseout Plan, Relies on Shaky Carbon Capture Technology
Canada’s five big tar sands/oil sands companies are raising eyebrows with their plan to form an Oil Sands Pathways to Net Zero alliance aimed ... -
BuildingsCanadaCitiesClimate & SocietyClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Denial & GreenwashingDemand & DistributionEnergy PoliticsJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasSub-National Governments
Gas Lobby Fails to Delay Vancouver’s Climate Emergency Plan
An effort backed by a powerful natural gas organization to erode Vancouver’s climate emergency plan has failed, but the thin margin on the final ... -
CanadaCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationCoalHealth & SafetyJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryNon-Renewable Energy
Canada Closes the Door on New Thermal Coal Mines
The federal government will no longer approve new thermal coal mines or mine expansions, after Environment and Climate Minister Jonathan Wilkinson released a policy ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsFinance & InvestmentFirst PeoplesForests & DeforestationGeneral RenewablesInternationalInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryOceansRenewable EnergySoil & Natural SequestrationWater
Report Calls for Climate, Biodiversity Action to Work in Tandem
A landmark report is warning that global heating and biodiversity collapse are intertwined crises that will be solved only if they are solved together—critical ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationCoalHealth & SafetyJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryNon-Renewable EnergySub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Alberta Government Mishandling Funding for Contaminated Sites, Repeat Audit Concludes
Alberta's auditor general is criticizing the government for failing to fix problems pointed out six years ago in a program that's supposed to guarantee ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationFinance & InvestmentJurisdictionsLegal & Regulatory
High-Carbon Investments are ‘Mispriced’ for Climate Risk, Bank of Canada Warns
Canadian investors may be in for a rude awakening as they discover that their stocks and bonds in carbon-intensive industries are “mispriced” once the ... -
AsiaCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsCoalFinance & InvestmentInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyRenewable EnergySolar
Vietnam Solar Capacity Grows 100-Fold Since 2019
Solar uptake in Vietnam has reached eye-blinking speed, with a 100-fold increase in generation just since 2019. -
AustraliaAuto & Alternative VehiclesBatteries/StorageCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionFinance & InvestmentFirst PeoplesHydrogenJobs & TrainingJurisdictionsRenewable EnergySolarSupply Chains & ConsumptionWind
Coal-Heavy Queensland Commits $2 Billion to Clean Energy Jobs
Australia’s fossil-heavy state of Queensland is committing A$2 billion to create what Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk called a “self-reinforcing cycle of investment—a job-generating clean energy ... -
Climate Impacts & AdaptationFood SecurityJurisdictionsSevere Storms & FloodingSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
California Could Divert Floodwaters to Recharge Parched Aquifers
California may be able to address its side-by-side problems with flooding and drought by diverting water from areas with two much moisture to other ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyClimate Action/"Blockadia"First PeoplesJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
‘Never, Ever Give Up’, McKibben Says, as TC Energy Cancels Keystone XL
It took nearly five months, after U.S. President Joe Biden dealt a death blow to the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in ... -
Carbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyEnergy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentJurisdictionsUnited States
‘No Climate, No Deal,’ Democrat Vows, as Senate Group Scales Back Biden Infrastructure Plan
With a handful of Democrats in the U.S. Senate scrambling to protect the proposed climate investments in President Joe Biden's infrastructure bill, a group ... -
Carbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyCoalDemand & DistributionElectricity GridJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasRenewable EnergySolarUnited StatesWind
Surging Wind, Solar Deliver 93% of New U.S. Grid Capacity
Wind and solar accounted for nearly all of the new electrical generating capacity installed in the United States between January and April this year. -
CanadaCarbon-Free TransitionCCS & Negative EmissionsClimate & SocietyClimate Denial & GreenwashingEnergy PoliticsEnergy SubsidiesHydrogenJurisdictionsMethaneNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasRenewable EnergySub-National Governments
$1.3-Billion Edmonton Project Raises Hopes for Blue Hydrogen, Doubts About Greenwashing
A plan by a Pennsylvania-based industrial gas and chemical company to build a C$1.3-billion “blue” hydrogen plant in Edmonton is raising cautious optimism about ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationEuropeHealth & SafetyHeat & TemperatureInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictionsMethaneUnited StatesWater
Oxygen Levels Plummeting in Freshwater Lakes
As global heating undercuts the ability of aquatic habitats to store and circulate oxygen, the myriad creatures that inhabit the world’s beleaguered freshwater lakes ...
