Climate Change

Global warming is pushing alpine animals to mountain peaks — and extinction, B.C. study warns

12/09/18
Author: 
Wanyee Li
Link: 
StarMetro Vancouver

VANCOUVER—Alpine animals are being pushed higher up their mountain habitats at an alarming rate due to global warming, according to a new B.C. study.

The trend puts both plants and animals at greater risk for extinction because there is often less space at high altitudes, which can drastically reduce populations, according to Ben Freeman, lead author of the paper published in Global Ecology and Biogeography.

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British Columbia
Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
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Quashed: The verdict is in. Now what?

12/09/18
Author: 
Eugene Kung, Staff Lawyer
Link: 
West Coast Environmental Law
pipeline victory
September 12, 2018

7:29am, Thursday, August 30th, 2018:
We’re in a boardroom high above downtown Vancouver, not far from Robson Street where I’m told there used to be a great hunting path. I’m on the Federal Court of Appeal’s website, refreshing my web browser obsessively.

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British Columbia
Canada
Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Indigenous Peoples
Oil - Pipelines
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Secretary-General's remarks on Climate Change [as delivered] Sept. 10, 2018

12/09/18
Author: 
UN Secretary General
Link: 
United Nations

Dear friends of planet Earth,

Thank you for coming to the UN Headquarters today.

I have asked you here to sound the alarm.

Climate change is the defining issue of our time – and we are at a defining moment.

We face a direct existential threat.

Climate change is moving faster than we are – and its speed has provoked a sonic boom SOS across our world.

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Climate Change
Global
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The Living Salish Sea - Film on line

08/09/18
Author: 
Sarama
Many of you will have already seen the excellent film The Living Salish Sea. It is a good time to remember it and send it to friends and, especially, uncommitted people, since the potential effect of the proposed pipeline on the inlet/sea is one of the two issues that any future assessment will now have to address.

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British Columbia
Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
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Why Are Positive Climate Feedbacks So Negative?

07/09/18
Author: 
Dan Lashof
Link: 
Green Biz

This story originally published on World Resources Institute.

If your colleague or child does well and you give her or him positive feedback, that’s good.

If climate change causes a cascade of impacts that result in additional climate change — which scientists call "positive feedback" — that’s bad, and maybe catastrophic.

Category: 
Climate Change
Climate Science
Global
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On the Precipice

03/09/18
Author: 
Victor Wallis
Link: 
The Bullet
Red Green Revolution

September 3, 2018  

Like many others (unless they are in a state of simple denial), I sometimes feel paralyzed by the enormity of the environmental challenge.

How to break through this?

We must begin with the certainties.

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Climate Change
Ecosocialism
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Scientists Warn the UN of Capitalism's Imminent Demise

03/09/18
Author: 
Nafeez Ahmed
Link: 
Motherboard   
bull - Image: Shutterstock

A climate change-fueled switch away from fossil fuels means the worldwide economy will fundamentally need to change.       


Aug 27 2018
 
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Capitalism
Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Global
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The Climate-Wrecking Industry… and How to Beat It

02/09/18
Author: 
Jason Mark
Link: 
The Nation
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Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Environmental Groups
Oil - Pipelines
USA
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The death of Trans Mountain pipeline signals future of Indigenous rights: Chiefs

31/08/18
Author: 
Judith Lavoie
Link: 
The Narwhal
Aug 30, 2018

As a federal court quashes the controversial project, lawyers and Indigenous leaders agree it’s more clear than ever that Canada must modernize its view of Aboriginal rights

 

As Grand Chief Stewart Phillip prepared for the Federal Court of Appeal decision on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion Thursday morning his expectations were low.

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Alberta
British Columbia
Canada
Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Energy
Indigenous Peoples
Oil - Pipelines
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Comment on TUED Working Paper No. 11: “Trade Unions and Just Transition: The Search for a Transformative Politics”

25/08/18
Author: 
Graham Petersen and Philip Pearson
Link: 
Unions for Energy Democracy

Introduction

The Greener Jobs Alliance is a Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED) supporter. We have identified Just Transition as a priority area as part of our work in the UK needed to ensure the implementation of union policy following the TUC Climate Change motion of 2017. This contained the ‘demand that just transition is integral to industrial strategy.’

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Capitalism
Climate Change
Ecosocialism
Labour - Unions
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