Drive to 1.5 Failure Is Not An Option
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‘No Vaccine for Climate Change’, Departing Toronto Energy Director Warns, in Critique of City’s Climate Performance
Toronto’s retiring director of environment and energy issued a broadside on his way out the door last week, warning councillors that there’s “no vaccine ... -
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Melting Greenland Ice Sheet ‘Like a Book of History Being Erased’: Op-Ed
The slow erasure of Greenland’s vast ice sheet—an archive of planetary and human history made of air bubbles and frozen water molecules—is a devastating ... -
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Wilkinson Touts ‘Really Good News’ as Canada Reports Higher CO2 Emissions for 2019
Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions rose fractionally in 2019, the first year the country’s national carbon pricing system took effect, but Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson ... -
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U.S. Prepares for Another ‘Devastating’ Fire Season
From California to Wisconsin, U.S. policy-makers are putting dollars into pre-emptive action and more “boots on the ground” as a lower-than-normal snowpack portends a ... -
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B.C. Wood Pellet Industry Feeds on Whole Trees, Not Waste Wood
Environmentalists and loggers are crying foul after revelations that British Columbia’s thriving wood pellet industry is sourcing its feedstock not from wood waste, but ... -
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Thinning Sea Ice, Changing Weather Strain Inuit Communities in Labrador
The psychological scars of cabin fever and adaptation fatigue are adding to the immediate physical dangers for Indigenous people in Labrador of pursuing a ... -
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Global CO2 Levels Hit ‘Very Scary’ 3.6 Million-Year High
Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are higher than they’ve been in the last 3.6 million years, and methane concentrations surged in 2020, all despite restrictions ... -
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Campaigners Urge NDP-Green ‘Climate Emergency Alliance’ in Next Federal Election [Sign-on]
A “climate emergency alliance” between the New Democratic and Green parties could make as many as 80 more House of Commons seats available to ... -
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62% of Big Five Bank Directors Have Ties to ‘Climate-Conflicted’ Industries, New Database Shows
Nearly two-thirds of the directors of Canada’s five biggest banks have past or present ties to high-carbon industries, making “climate-conflicted” bank directors a far ... -
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70 Missing, 150 Dead as Cyclone Seroja Hits Indonesia, East Timor
Catastrophic landslides driven by climate change and deforestation have killed at least 150 and displaced thousands after Tropical Cyclone Seroja hammered remote islands in ... -
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Global Forest Loss Accelerates Despite Pandemic Restrictions
Two recent studies are offering new evidence that the carbon-sequestering forests required to hold average global warming to 1.5°C are in peril. -
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Climate Impacts Wipe Out Seven Years of Food Production Growth as Big Ag Blocks Climate Action
Climate change has caused global food productivity growth to drop more than 20% since the 1960s, despite the billions of dollars Big Ag has ... -
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Protecting Half of the World’s Oceans Could Deliver Massive Global Gains
Protecting 45% of the world’s oceans would deliver a “triple win” of increased biodiversity, restored fisheries, and a greater capacity to sequester carbon, says ... -
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Climate-Denying Kansas Senator Plans Straitjacket for $14-Billion State Wind Industry
At hearings last week chaired by a climate change denier and green energy critic, the utilities committee of the Kansas Senate considered a measure ... -
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Capping Warming at 1.5°C Could Cut Expected Deadly Heat Stress by Half
Limiting global warming to 1.5°Cwill reduce the exposure of hundreds of millions of South Asian people to lethal heat events by half, in turn ...
