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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 ... -
AsiaAustraliaBrazilChinaDrive to 1.5Failure Is Not An OptionHealth & SafetyIndiaInternational Agencies & StudiesSouth & Central AmericaUnited States
Dengue Risk to Hit Two Billion More People in 2080 Unless Carbon Emissions Are Curtailed
Based on a warming scenario “roughly representative of the world’s current emissions trajectory,” more than two billion additional people will be at risk of ... -
AfricaAsiaAustraliaCanadaCoalEnergy SubsidiesFinance & InvestmentIndiaPost-Carbon TransitionSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
Canada Earns Praise for Global Coal Phaseout, Falls Behind on Renewables Deployment
Canada earned its share of international praise last month in a report that highlighted the country’s leadership in the global coal phaseout, shone a ... -
AsiaBioenergyBrazilChinaElectricity GridEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsEuropeFinance & InvestmentHydroIndiaInternational Agencies & StudiesJobsOff-GridPost-Carbon TransitionSolarSupply Chains & ConsumptionUnited StatesWind
Renewables Employed 11 Million in 2018, IRENA Reports
Renewable energy employed 11 million people around the world last year despite slower annual growth in key markets like China, the International Renewable Energy ... -
AsiaBuildingsCanadaCulture, Curiosities, & HumourElectricity GridInternational Agencies & StudiesMedia, Messaging, & Public Opinion
Dumping the Pinstripe Cuts Summer Energy Use, Helps Women Office Workers Boost Productivity
“It’s summer: ditch the suit and tie,” may become a directive heard more often by Canadian office workers, as companies reckon with the cost ... -
India Bakes Under Stifling Heat Wave as Data Show Warming Trend
Much of the Indian subcontinent was blanketed in a stifling heat wave last week, with five of the 15 hottest places on the planet ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
AsiaClimate Impacts & AdaptationDrive to 1.5Drought, Famine & WildfiresFailure Is Not An OptionHealth & SafetyHeat & TemperatureSevere Storms & Flooding
Japan’s 2018 Killer Heat Wave Was ‘Essentially Impossible’ Without Climate Change
Japan’s heat wave in July 2018 could not have happened without climate change. -
AsiaAustraliaBatteries/StorageFinance & InvestmentHydroIndiaOil & GasPost-Carbon TransitionShale & FrackingSolar
Renewables Investment in Asia Set to Exceed Fossil Exploration by 2020
Renewable energy investment in Asia is set to edge ahead of oil and gas exploration by next year, according to international fossil analysts at ... -
AfricaAsiaDemand & EfficiencyElectricity GridGeneral RenewablesHuman Rights & MigrationIndiaInternational Agencies & StudiesOff-GridPost-Carbon Transition
400 Million Gain Electricity Service, But Countries Fall Behind 2030 Deadline for Universal Access
Although 400 million people around the world have gained access to electricity since 2010, progress is still too slow to meet the United Nations ...
