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, […]
Released: Dec. 11, 2011 Media contact: Matt Horne, PJ Partington VANCOUVER — Matt Horne, director of the Pembina Institute’s climate change program, made the following statement in response to the conclusion of the UN climate change conference in Durban, South Africa: […]
December 11, 2011 (Durban, South Africa) Following an extra day of negotiations, the UN climate change talks in Durban, South Africa have finished. Hannah McKinnon, Campaigns Director of Climate Action Network Canada has responded as follows: “The most important thing […]
Canadians in Durban hold moment of silence for the fifth Colossal Fossil in a row For Immediate Release (Durban, South Africa) Today, Canada was awarded the dubious honour of Fossil of the Year for the fifth year running at COP17 […]
This morning, members of TckTckTck and CAN joined 2000 Durban students in creating the world’s largest human lion on the beach. Their goal? Urge leaders at COP 17 to have the courage to create a breakthrough agreement that will ensure […]
DURBAN, South Africa – Canada is pushing for a new binding international climate change regime to come into effect within four years to avoid dangerous interference with the atmosphere, Environment Minister Peter Kent said Thursday. Read more…
The International Forum on Globalization (IFG) release a special report today, “Outing the Oligarchy: Billionaires Who Benefit from Today’s Climate Crisis, which identifies the world’s wealthiest 50 individuals whose investments benefit from climate change and whose influence networks block efforts […]
