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 […]
December 14, 2012 Developed Countries Disappoint in DohaAfter hours of dramatic overtime, this year’s UN climate talks wrapped up with little to brag about. With controversy erupting towards to end, the most notable take-away was a powerful message from the […]
Rich countries brought little to the table to fulfill their promises in Doha December 8, 2012 (Doha, Qatar) This year’s UN climate talks wrapped up after many hours of dramatic overtime with little to speak of in terms of progress […]
Civil society interventions Meeting with Minister Peter Kent December 6, 2012 Doha, Qatar Submitted interventions John Stone- IPCC scientist Scientists have been warning governments of the potential threat of climate change for almost half a century. The Intergovernmental Panel on […]
Environment Minister meets for first time with climate focused civil society December 6, 2012 (Doha, Qatar) Today, for the first time since taking the position of Environment Minister, Peter Kent met with climate-focused civil society groups at a UN climate […]
Wednesday, December 06, 2012 Canada’s Climate Legacy: Global Pariah & Master of Illusion Since our dramatic finish at last year’s UN Climate Conference in Durban, we’ve seen several reports desperately warning of the severe consequences and missed opportunities of Canada’s […]
