Tag: Climate Emergency
Big Banks Supporting Trans Mountain Equals Financing Climate Disaster
If you're banking with one of Canada's "big six" banks—RBC, TD, Scotia, BMO, CIBC, National—you are inadvertently fuelling the climate crisis. Your money, left...
Ten Climate Reasons To Defeat Doug Ford
"Premier Doug Ford is making the climate crisis worse. His government’s arrogance, climate recklessness and willful negligence, threatens our future. His government, consisting of...
Oil and Gas Insiders Overseeing Canadians’ Retirement Savings
Canadian pension funds aren’t just large investors in fossil fuels. In many cases, pension directors, trustees and staff sit on the boards of fossil...
Has the Green Energy Transition Stalled?
For many of us in the climate movement, 2022 was going to be the year the green energy transition would take off, building on...
Five Ways Canada Can Reach 2030 Emissions Target
"Canada's success will depend on how—and how quickly—the government puts those climate policies in place," write Dave Sawyer and Dale Beugin in their blog in...
Alarm Bells Over Canada’s Extreme Heat In Red Zones
"Canada is warming, on average, at twice the global rate," says a recent Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation (University of Waterloo) report. "Urgent action...
Is Carbon Capture a Help or a Hindrance?
Will the world be able to sink the climate problem underground or under the oceans? Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies exist but can...
Canadian Banks Funding Climate Chaos
Fossil fuel financing from the world’s 60 largest banks has reached USD $4.6 trillion in the six years since the adoption of the Paris...
IPCC: Limits to Climate Adaptation
"Humans are adapting to climate change, but it’s not even close to enough — and what little is being done becomes less effective as...
“Atlas of Human Suffering” Says UN Secretary General
United Nations secretary general António Guterres calls the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report “an atlas of human suffering”. "The report is a...