Climate Change

30/08/22
Author: 
Lydia DePillis
Ben Jones illustration

Aug. 25, 2022

They underestimated the impact of global warming, and their preferred policy solution floundered in the United States.

Economists have been examining the impact of climate change for almost as long as it’s been known to science.

30/08/22
Author: 
Compiled by Mitchell Beer
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Aug. 7, 2022

Canada’s biggest fossil companies are lining up to dismiss the federal government’s new emissions cap for their sector as “very aggressive” and “almost unrealistic”, even as Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault hastens to offer them flexibility and an extended deadline to hit the long-awaited target.

30/08/22
Author: 
Damien Gayle
Scientists for Extinction Rebellion demonstrate outside the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in London. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images

Aug. 29, 2022

An article in the Nature Climate Change journal argues that non-violent direct action taken by experts is effective

Scientists should commit acts of civil disobedience to show the public how seriously they regard the threat posed by the climate crisis, a group of leading scientists has argued.

“Civil disobedience by scientists has the potential to cut through the myriad complexities and confusion surrounding the climate crisis,” the researchers wrote in an article, published in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change on Monday.

30/08/22
Author: 
Damian Carrington
Canary Wharf, where HSBC, JPMorgan Chase and other global banking corporations have offices, is seen from Greenwich, southeast London. Photo by Nevalenx / Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Aug. 30, 2022

This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

U.S. and U.K. financial institutions have been among the leading investors in Russian “carbon bomb” fossil fuel projects, according to a new database of holdings from recent years.

25/08/22
Author: 
John Woodside
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz examine a hydrogen powered toy car as they tour a trade show, Tuesday, August 23, 2022 in Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Aug. 25, 2022

An alliance formed this week between the governments of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz revealed a major point of disagreement that could determine the future of hydrogen in the global economy.

25/08/22
Author: 
Jonathan Cook
Image of Rushdie and Julian Assange

Aug. 16, 2022

Nothing I am about to write should be read as diminishing in any way my sympathy for Salman Rushdie, or my outrage at the appalling attack on him. Those who more than 30 years ago put a fatwa on his head after he wrote the novel, “The Satanic Verses,” made this assault possible. They deserve contempt. I wish him a speedy recovery.

24/08/22
Author: 
Natasha Bulowski
Trans Mountain will not have to come up with an additional $1.1 billion to cover the cleanup cost of possible oil spills from TMX, the Canada Energy Regulator has decided. Photo by Jesse Winter / Canada's National Observer


Aug. 23, 2022

Trans Mountain will not have to come up with an additional $1.1 billion to cover the cleanup cost of possible oil spills from its expansion project, the Canada Energy Regulator has decided.

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