Economic Impact from Climate Crisis Like Two Pandemics Per Year
We are dumping 40 billion metric tons of CO2 pollution into the atmosphere per year according to NOAA global monitoring. At this rate, the...
I’m Not Here To Talk About Hope, I’m Here To Talk About Fear
The world is beginning to come to grips with the climate crisis. The transition to clean energy is accelerating. The sense of urgency needed...
We Don’t Have Time – Financing The Race To Zero
Below2C is a proud We Don't Have Time partner to the Exponential Climate Action Summit - Financing the Race to Zero virtual event on...
When Will My Bank (RBC) Divest From Fossil Fuels?
Did you know that there are roughly 7.5 million grandparents living in Canada? And many, like Lorraine Green (and myself), have become climate activists,...
Indigenous Women Leaders Tell Banks To Stop Financing Climate Chaos
The 2021 Banking on Climate Chaos report is the most comprehensive analysis on fossil fuel banking produced to date. Since the Paris agreement in...
Red Alert: Climate Pledges Falling ‘Far Short’ of Paris Agreement Targets
A new UN analysis reveals that global emissions dropped by 2.6 billion tonnes in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is...
Fossil Banks No Thanks
Fossil Banks No Thanks is the slogan—rallying cry—for a national action day targeting Canada's five Big Banks for their role in financing the climate...
Lessons From 2020 On How To Tackle the Climate Emergency In 2021
Millions of people around the world will remember 2020 as the year that two major crises intersected bringing us to the stark realization that...
Canada: Falling Far Short On Climate Policy, Emissions Reduction and Energy Transition
"Ranked among the worst-performing countries in CCPI 2020, Canada fell another three spots in this year’s index, to 58th," reports the 2020 Climate Change...
Climate Action: Speeding In The Wrong Direction
"The action needed is still nowhere in sight...We are speeding in the wrong direction" said Greta Thunberg in a video shared with Guardian News...