Four years ago, I traveled around America, visiting historical archives. I was looking for documents that might reveal the hidden history of climate change—and in particular, when the major coal, oil and gas companies became ...
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The time has come for Canada and other rich nations to pony-up and pay for the devastation they have caused countries in the Global South. That means, for a start, providing far greater climate adaptation financing to low-income ...
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Oct 25, 2021
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When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg in Montréal two years ago, he promised to plant two billion trees by 2030 to help Canada meet its net-zero emissions goal.
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Aug 26, 2021
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Matthew Kotchen, an economist at Yale University, has found that fossil fuel companies in the U.S. are getting approximately $62 billion in implicit subsidies every year. In his paper published in Proceedings of the National ...
The chickens have come home to roost for Alberta Premier Jason Kenney. Kenney bet around $1.5 billion of public money on a very risky prospect—the highly controversial Keystone XL pipeline.
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Jan 27, 2021
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French global energy giant Total recently announced it had delivered its first shipment of "carbon neutral liquid natural gas". Natural gas is, of course, a fossil fuel and so can't itself be carbon neutral. Instead, emissions ...
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Jan 14, 2021
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The worldwide effort to prevent Earth from becoming an unlivable hothouse is in the grips of "net zero" fever.
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Dec 9, 2020
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Bankers and environmentalists alike are increasingly calling for capital markets to play a bigger role in the war on carbon. In the absence of a meaningful global price on carbon, however, capital continues to flow freely ...
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Nov 3, 2020
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As we begin to engage with the climate emergency and the impact of carbon dioxide emissions, calls have grown to stop investing in companies engaged in fossil fuel production—a practice known as divestment.
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Jun 29, 2020
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Across much of California, fossil fuel companies are leaving thousands of oil and gas wells unplugged and idle, potentially threatening the health of people living nearby and handing taxpayers a multibillion-dollar bill for ...
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