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Nov. 4, 2021

Jeremy Allingham heads to Johnston Heights Secondary School to ask students there about what's needed on climate change. And then Marina Melanidis speaks with Stephen Quinn about her frustration with COP26 delegates.

Listen here: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-91/clip/15876438

Oct. 29, 2021

My country, Uganda, and much of Africa has been battered by climate-related disasters. Cop26 is a chance for the biggest polluters to set up a compensation fund

While walking with a friend through central Kampala last month, we saw a police truck go by, a body in the back.

Nov. 2, 2021

"What corporations and big conservation groups call 'nature-based solutions' is a dangerous distraction."

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November 2, 2021  •  La Via Campesina

November 2nd, 2021

I didn't want to have to write this column.

That's because I have a multitude of other tasks on my to-do list before getting this week's issue of the Georgia Straight to the printer tonight.

Oct. 31, 2021

Media coverage of the planetary emergency often can't be monetized, which is one reason why it's of little interest to Rupert Murdoch and wannabe Rupert Murdochs

In advance of the COP 26 meetings in Glasgow, young climate activists Greta Thunberg and Vanessa Nakate, founder of the Rise Up Movement, issued an open letter to the media.

They urged editors to pay far more attention to the Global North's "moral responsibility to move much faster in reducing their emissions".