Ecology/Environment

Gitanyow Challenges Ksi Lisims LNG To Prove GHG Reduction Promises

16/02/24

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Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs

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Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs

Feb 9, 2024

Urges Halt to BCEAO Review Demanding Critical Studies Before Advancing

Gitanyow Lax’yip, February 9, 2024: The Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs (GHC) issued a detailed response to Ksi Lisims LNG’s letter, dated December 22, 2023, raising critical points challenging the project’s claims regarding climate impacts and fisheries in the Nass Watershed.

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Circular Economy Not the Solution to Polycrisis

15/02/24

Author:

Gary Gardner, originally published by Center for the Advancement of a Steady State Economy

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Resilience

Durable materials and repurposed structures contribute to circularity. (Kevin Martin Jose, Unsplash)

Feb. 15. 2024

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Songbirds, sharks and many other migratory species are in decline, UN report says

13/02/24

Author:

Christina Larson

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National Observer

A researcher uses a clothes hanger to secure a geo-locator in place on the leg of a Red Knot shore bird while the glue dries on the north end of Nauset Beach in Eastham, Mass., on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)

Feb. 12, 2024

Nearly half of the world's migratory species are in decline, according to a new United Nations report released Monday.

Many songbirds, sea turtles, whales, sharks and other migratory animals move to different environments with changing seasons and are imperiled by habitat loss, illegal hunting and fishing, pollution and climate change.

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Climate Change

Ecology/Environment

Global

Atlantic Current Collapse More Likely Than Thought?

13/02/24

Author:

Brett Wilkins

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Common Dreams

The Gulf Stream is an ocean current that carries warm water from the Gulf of Mexico into the Atlantic Ocean. (Image: NASA)

Feb. 10, 2024

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Why we love to hate all over Emma Stone’s environmentalist in The Curse

05/02/24

Author:

Eve Andrews

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National Observer

Nathan Fielder stands next to Emma Stone, with cameras and booms surrounding them. Photo: Richard Foreman Jr. / A24 / Paramount+ with SHOWTIME

Feb. 2, 2024

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

With the World Stumbling Past 1.5 Degrees of Warming, Scientists Warn Climate Shocks Could Trigger Unrest and Authoritarian Backlash

05/02/24

Author:

Bob Berwyn

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Inside Climate News

Activists march in protest on day nine of the COP28 Climate Conference on Dec. 9, 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Jan. 28, 2024

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Heat to soar, pipelines to roar in 2024

05/02/24

Author:

Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood

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National Observer

The longer we fail to address climate change, the more urgent the problem becomes. Photo by Markus Spiske/Pexels

The year 2024 is shaping up to be the most important ever for climate action — just like 2023 before it and 2022 before that, and so on back through at least the 1980s.

It may be a tired refrain. But in this era of accelerating and compounding crises, the longer we fail to address climate change, the more urgent the problem becomes.

So what trends, events and opportunities should concerned citizens be paying attention to in 2024?

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Oil firms forced to consider full climate effects of new drilling, following landmark Norwegian court ruling

02/02/24

Author:

Daria Shapovalova

Link:

phys.org

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain - Norway Coast

Jan. 31,2024

Norway's district court in Oslo recently made a decision on fossil fuels that deserves the attention of every person concerned about climate change.

This ruling, which compels energy firms to account for the industry's entire carbon footprint, could change the way oil and gas licenses are awarded in Norway—and inspire similar legal challenges to fossil fuel production in other countries.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Climate 'Not Mentioned' in Alberta Water-Sharing Talks

01/02/24

Author:

Bob Weber

Link:

National Observer

Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz says negotiations between water licence holders in three southern Alberta river basins will open this week. Schulz shakes hands with Premier Danielle Smith in Edmonton on Oct. 24, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

Jan. 31, 2024

Drought-weary Alberta opens water-sharing talks with large users

EDMONTON — Lance Colby saw what was coming.

The Alberta government said Wednesday it would open talks on water-sharing between large users as the province's drought situation worsens. But Colby, chair of the Mountain View Regional Water Services Commission in central Alberta, had already begun such discussions.

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Quebec’s playbook for beating Big Oil - Video

26/01/24

Author:

The Breach

Link:

The Breach

Screenshot Quebec’s playbook for beating Big Oil - Video

Jan 10 2024

Watch here: https://youtu.be/48QpstQLv6Q

Dru Oja Jay: A few years ago, a movement with hundreds of thousands of participants achieved a stunning climate justice victory, one of the world’s biggest examples of leaving fossil fuels in the ground.

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