Just because something is a bit complicated, it doesn’t mean you can ignore it, especially when it’s hurting you. And yet, this appears to be the case with the loss of hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs in the past […]
For Earth’s climate system, 2011 was an extraordinarily turbulent year. The United States saw a series of record-busting extremes, from a devastating tornado season to an epic drought in a vital agricultural region. The fusillade of extreme events kept global warming […]
At the dawn of the 21st century a new political regime has transformed Canada from global hero – once standing up for peace, people, and nature – to global criminal, plunging into war, eroding civil rights, and destroying environments. What […]
Over the last few months, some of the oil industry’s biggest fans have made what they think are startling revelations about us. They’ve discovered that Americans give us money. And they say this money forced us to talk about the pollution and […]
MONTREAL — The year drew to a close with the United Nations climate-change talks, this time in Durban, again ending in failure to reach an international agreement. Instead, the 192 nations agreed to start work on a new climate-change deal […]
New York, 14 December 2011 – Against a backdrop of the multiple crises of the past four years, the United Nations today launched a report that offers UN agencies and its member states guidance for coordinating the transition to a […]
Improvements to Feed-In Tariff Will Increase Ontario’s Competitiveness: Unprecedented Environment and Industry Coalition Delivers Proposal to Strengthen Ontario’s Renewable Energy Policy Toronto, ON – The Green Energy Act Alliance and Shine Ontario Association have joined forces to present a clear […]
By my calculation, by the time Canada’s withdrawal kicks in one year from now, we will have had commitments under the Kyoto Protocol for five years less 19 days. Read more…
The Durban climate summit that ended on Sunday has been proclaimed a great success. The chair, South Africa’s international relations minister, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, told the delegates: “We have concluded this meeting with [a plan] to save one planet for the […]
Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane – a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide – have been seen bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean by scientists undertaking an extensive survey of the region. The scale […]
The battle over shale gas exploration and extraction in Quebec is once again heating up. The province began a series of information sessions on the future of the controversial industry Monday evening in Saint-Hyacinthe. Officials were met by dozens of […]
The Harper Conservative government has once again been an obstructive force at the annual United Nations climate change talks. Harper’s government went to Durban determined to protect profits from Canada’s high-carbon resource economy ahead of moving the world to a […]
DURBAN: Union environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan got a surprise resounding standing ovation in a meeting of 195 countries when they got into a negotiating huddle at the middle of the night. They applauded her for her stirring speech defending the […]
SOMBA K’E/YELLOWKNIFE – Mother Nature has a crusader in Bob Bromley, who likened the territorial government’s failure to take effective action on climate change to a “crime against humanity.” The Weledeh MLA lamented Canada’s failings on climate change during the first […]
En désaccord avec la position du gouvernement Harper sur la lutte aux changements climatiques, plusieurs organisations ont tenu une manifestation cet après-midi à Montréal. Les protestataires blâment et accusent le gouvernement canadien d’avoir abandonné la protocole de Kyoto. Selon eux, […]
