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We have a global Climate Emergency! Climate change is the most critical issue of our times—the greatest threat ever faced by humanity.The goal of the Paris Agreement is to keep the global temperature rise well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels. Below2°C is premised on the Paris Agreement. Because if we don’t solve climate change, nothing else matters.
Tell Banks: Stop Funding Carbon

Stopping Line 3 is a matter of justice.
It is about justice for the land. It’s about justice for the water. Justice for Anishinaabe people whose culture and way of life it threatens. Justice for people all over the world who are being impacted by the climate crisis.
CLEAN ENERGY

Stop the Dash to Gas and Green the Grid
Natural gas is not the bridge to a clean energy future that fossil fuel companies and governments would have us believe. Natural gas is a bridge to nowhere. This post features a recent media release by Cathy Orlando (Canadian Director for CCL Canada) which highlights the need to focus on greening the electricity grid and...
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Five Developments To Really Feel Good About
This post features a wide-ranging collection of five positive developments—things to feel good about—at a time when our world is undergoing the most tumultuous and unpredictable period in human history. Daily news about climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, social and economic inequality, racism and violence dominate the headlines. And yet, we are often reminded that...
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Only Clean Technologies Can Stop Climate Change
The world must prevent a post-pandemic carbon rebound that would all but put the final nail in the climate change coffin. We have but a small window of opportunity to avert a climate crisis. Only clean technologies can stop climate change writes Dana Nuccitelli in this article previously published in Yale Climate Connections. Clean Technologies...
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Pointing Out The Glaringly Obvious: Oil is Dead
Finally we have one politician in Canada with the courage to point out the glaringly obvious truth about the Oil Sands: Canada’s oil sector is in a death spiral. And sinking more money into a dying industry is a gross mismanagement of our tax dollars. Both Jason Kenney (Premier of Alberta) and Prime Minister Trudeau...
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