Thursday, July 04, 2013 Nobel Peace Laureates stand in Solidarity with First Nations affected by reckless Tar Sands development On July 5th and 6th, people from coast to coast will gather in Fort McMurray, AB to join First Nations and Metis in the Healing […]
Thursday, June 20th, 2013 World can’t wait until 2020 on Climate Action, says new IEA report Last week the International Energy Agency (IEA) released a disturbing report warming that “the world is not on track to limit the long-term rise […]
Friday, June 07, 2013 Unlikely alliance urge Ontario for Price on Carbon This week, a group of Ontario based investors, industry, academics, civil society and environmental NGO’s wrote an open letter urging members of the Ontario government to put a […]
June 05, 2013 Dear Premier Kathleen Wynne and Minister of the Environment James Bradley: The undersigned organizations and individuals – representing a broad cross section of Ontario-based investors, industry, academics, and civil society – recognize the significant risks that […]
Thursday, May 29, 2013 Joe Oliver takes flight to fight for Canadian tar sands In the continuing effort to weaken climate policies abroad Natural Resources Minister, Joe Oliver, is spending the week in Europe to lobby against European legislation that […]
Canadians deserve to know the truth about the tar sands. With industry and government working overtime on massive PR campaigns that try to greenwash the tar sands, we need a reality check. That’s why academics, scientists, economists and a handful […]
Thursday, May 23, 2013 If it Looks Like We Have a Chance, We Should Take it A recent article published in Nature Geoscience journalsuggests the earth will warm more slowly in the coming decades than previously projected. Many scientists and […]
Thursday, May 23, 2013 If it Looks Like We Have a Chance, We Should Take itA recent article published in Nature Geoscience journalsuggests the earth will warm more slowly in the coming decades than previously projected. Many scientists and environmental organizations […]
In January 2013, the Ontario government published “Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions in Ontario: A Discussion Paper – January 2013” and invited stakeholders to submit comments on the discussion paper. Climate Action Network Canada has responded to this invitation with the […]
Thursday, April 11, 2013 Fact-Checking Ms. Redford This week Alberta Premier Alison Redford returned to Washington to continue lobbying for the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. While in Washington, she gave a speech at the Brookings Institute, which featured […]
Thursday, March 14, 2013 Getting the Facts Straight: Canada’s Environmental Record & Climate Credibility Gap In the last weeks, the controversy around the Keystone XL pipeline proposal entered into a new phase after the release of the US State Department’s […]
Thursday, February 14, 2013 Keystone XL Provokes Largest Climate Protest in US history Last week, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister, John Baird, met with America’s newly appointed Secretary of State to discuss the Keystone XL pipeline, trade, energy security and the […]
Friday, February 01, 2013 EU Stands Strong Against Canadian Tar Sands Lobbying The European Commission’s plan to label dirty fuel could throw a curve ball in Canada’s mission to diversify tar sands exports. Though Canada has exported very little oil […]
Thursday, January 17, 2013 Happy New Year from CAN-Rac!From record setting global temperatures and Arctic ice sheet melt, to superstorm Sandy and typhoon Boha, it was a year the world will remember for the undeniable impacts of climate change. But 2012 […]
