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Canada’s Fair Share
Canada has a lot of catching up to do in terms of mitigating global climate change. That’s the main message of Climate Action Network Canada’s (CANC) Road Map to Paris, a list of recommendations for...
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Why You Can Only Sometimes Trust a COP
As you’ve surely heard, COP21 will be taking place soon in Paris, like a high-speed electric train of acronyms. Oh, the acronyms. The UNFCCC – that’s the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate...
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The Students of COP21
Climate change is an international, inter-generational and interdisciplinary issue. To help on the inter-generational side, the University of Waterloo is sending a team of six student delegates from...
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Canada and the Kyoto Protocol
From its ratification in 2002 to Canada’s eventual withdrawal from the agreement in 2011, the Kyoto Protocol has caused many debates, disagreements and discussion for the country and its citizens. In...
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Hopeful Caution
“COP21 will be good, but not good enough,” says David Miller, president and CEO of WWF-Canada with regard to energy conservation. If we are going to combat climate change, according to Miller COP21 has...
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McKenna says Canada is Back
The 90-day countdown is almost on for Trudeau to meet his election promise of developing new emissions targets post-COP21. The day before the UN climate negotiations’ official start, Ministers...
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A Climate Friendly Canada and Climate Policy in the Tar sands? What’s Next?
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Connecting Climate Research
Climate change negotiations are complicated, Mark Terry and the Youth Climate Report (YCR) team is helping everyone see through the policy language and understand the issue at hand. Using a new Google...
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Adhering to the Laws of Nature
It is easier to adjust human created rules than it is to override the laws of nature. Canadian journalist and activist Naomi Klein borrowed a set of that piece of Julius Caesar wisdom when developing...
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A Love Letter from the Earth
Inside Petit Palais in Paris, activists, artists, politicians, science and tech companies gathered to send a love letter from Earth to Paris. In the months before the start of COP21, Max Schorr,...
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Last Chance
The final hours of climate change negotiations in Paris are looming. Having wrapped up Thursday night’s session at 6 am Friday morning, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has conceded that the...
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The Missing Pieces in Canada’s Climate Change Mitigation Plan
The Paris climate talks have come to an end, and a historic agreement has been reached. In Canada, environmentalists have breathed a deep sigh of relief as the federal and provincial governments have...
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Buyer Beware
The era of climate change denial is over, yet the connection between human consumption and climate change continues to be lost on some consumers. Climate change warning labels on gas pump nozzles...
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Pick Up the Pace
Lester Brown makes a satisfying – if not always perfectly compelling – argument that fossil fuels are already inheriting the world.read more
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Blame it on the Fracking
We aren’t particularly skilled at predicting the impacts of fracking. Is the waste dangerous? Which chemicals are being used? Does it cause groundwater contamination?One of the things fracking does...
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Electrify Everything
If you electrify everything and produce electricity from wind, water, and solar, your power demand goes down 42.5 percent. Most of that is due to the fact that electricity is more efficient than...
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Stop the Kinder Morgan buyout day of action
Susan Watson remembers being arrested at Clayoquot Sound in British Columbia in 1993. Up until then, she had considered herself a bit of a goody-two-shoes, but once she crossed that line and sat on the...
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'Drawdown: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming'
This is a book that addresses the climate crisis at its very roots. Editor Paul Hawken, who made his name with such environmental classics as Natural Capitalism and The Ecology of Commerce, says...
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OPINION: Playing politics with Pickering nuclear in no one’s best interest
Premier Doug Ford’s announcement that his government would keep the aging Pickering nuclear station online represented a regrettable (but unsurprising) continuity with Ontario’s pan-partisan tradition...
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Hopeful Caution
“COP21 will be good, but not good enough,” says David Miller, president and CEO of WWF-Canada with regard to energy conservation. If we are going to combat climate change, according to Miller COP21 has...
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