Climate Change

21/09/23
Author: 
John Woodside
Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault speaks to reporters during COP15 in Montreal. Photo via UN Biodiversity/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Sept. 21, 2023

With world leaders gathered in New York City to discuss the mounting crises of climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss, Canada is attempting to grow its influence on those international negotiations and appears set on a collision course over fossil fuels.

21/09/23
Author: 
John Woodside
Trudeau at climate summit

Sept. 21, 2023

Speaking at the Climate Ambition Summit in New York City on Wednesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was grilled for Canada’s massive oil and gas expansion at a time when climate science demands fossil fuels be rapidly phased out.

20/09/23
Author: 
John Feffer
Climate Justice!

Sept. 19, 2023

One Last Shot at Reducing Global Inequality and Saving the Planet

In a fit of madness or just plain desperation, you’ve enrolled in a get-rich-quick scheme. All you have to do is sell some products, sign up some friends, make some phone calls. Follow that simple formula and you’ll soon be pulling in tens of thousands of dollars a month — or so you’ve been promised anyway. And if you sell enough products, you’ll be invited into the Golden Circle, which offers yet more perks like free concert tickets and trips to Las Vegas.

20/09/23
Author: 
John Woodside
Wind turbines are being dismantled to make way for a coal mine expansion in Germany. Photo via BUND NRW/X (Twitter)

Sept. 20, 2023

Wind turbines are being dismantled to make way for a massive coal mine expansion in Germany, and Canada’s largest bank RBC is helping pay for it using “sustainable” finance.

20/09/23
Author: 
Matthew Daly, Associated Press
Climate activists chant as they occupy Lafayette Park with a banner demanding President Biden act on climate change near the White House on July 04, 2023 in Washington, DC. Tasos Katopodis—Getty Images

Sept. 20, 2023

Biden to Boost Green Jobs with New Deal-Style American Climate Corps

(WASHINGTON) — After being thwarted by Congress, President Joe Biden will use his executive authority to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps that will serve as a major green jobs training program.

19/09/23
Author: 
Damian Carrington
Climate models have suggested that the safe boundary for climate change was surpassed in the late 1980s. Photo by NASA

“The planetary boundaries concept is a heroic attempt to simplify the world, but it is probably too simplified to be of use in practically managing Earth,” he continued. “For example, the damage and suffering from limiting global heating to 1.6 C using pro-development policies and major investments in adapting to climate change would be vastly less than the damage and suffering from limiting warming to 1.5 C but doing this using policies that help the wealthy and disregard the poor. But the concept does work as a science-led parable of our times.”

18/09/23
Author: 
Aldyn Chwelos, Kristen de Jager and Paul Voll
‘We shouldn’t be working in this.’ Tree planters say that industry pressures trap them in unsafely polluted settings. Illustration by Nora Kelly.

Sept. 18, 2023

As the job hazard grows across Canada, protections fail to keep up. A Tyee and Climate Disaster Project special report.

Athick grey haze brewed above Alberta’s Slave Lake region in the summer of 2021. Seth Forward thrust his shovel into the earth to carve a home for green-needled seedlings. The heat and swarms of horseflies plagued him. But as Forward planted tree after tree, he was more concerned with the dark sky and acrid smell in the air.

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