Tag: Climate Emergency
Canada is Planet Wrecker Number Two
A new report titled “Planet Wreckers”, shows how just 20 countries are responsible for nearly 90% of carbon dioxide pollution threatened by new oil...
The Global Fight We Must Win: #EndFossilFuels
The climate crisis cannot be solved if we continue to burn fossil fuels. To have any hope of addressing the root causes of the...
The Climate Crisis Is a Fossil Fuel Crisis
"Humans are binge-burning fossil fuels. They are taking fuel out of the geologic past, burning it in the present with complex (and little understood)...
Is There a Climate Doctor in the House?
Climate change is making us sick, both physically and mentally. The health impacts of our changing climate are just now beginning to show up...
How To Make Your Next Vacation Green
This article was featured in the June Climate Legacy newsletter. Climate Legacy is a project to engage and mobilize older Canadians in climate action...
What Do Pension Funds Have To Do With The Climate Crisis?
"With more than $46 trillion in assets worldwide, pension funds are among the largest institutional investors in fossil fuels. By financing fossil fuel companies,...
Are We Unable To Contemplate Our Own Destruction
We are watching climate change play out in real time on a planetary scale. "Our environment is burning. It's melting. It's flooding. It's depleting....
Our Banks Are Not Our Friends. They Are Climate Villains
In 2015 countries committed to holding global warming well below 2°C with an aspirational goal of 1.5°C. Yet, in the seven years since the...
Canada’s Climate Villains: the Largest Barrier to Climate Action
“It’s no accident that in Canada, climate policy after climate policy gets weakened, delayed or killed. It’s because of the actions of a small...
Seven Reasons Why Policymakers Must Reject CCS
"Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is purported to collect or “capture” carbon dioxide generated by high-emitting activities, and is therefore commonly proposed as a...