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04/11/21
Author: 
Environmental Defence

Glasgow, Scotland – Today Prime Minister Justin Trudeau identified the biggest climate challenge for Canada but failed to come up with the right solution. Focusing on emissions from oil and gas production but not production itself will allow oil and gas companies to keep putting forward false solutions, such as carbon capture and storage, fossil-based hydrogen, and far-off net zero plans, all while pumping out more and more atmosphere-destroying fossil fuels.

04/11/21
Author: 
the Early Edition - CBC

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

04/11/21
Author: 
Vanessa Nakate
Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate at the Youth4Climate summit in Milan in September. Photograph: Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty

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.

03/11/21
Author: 
Jessica Corbett
An international coalition is warning world leaders that corporate-backed "nature-based solutions" are scams that will lead to "dispossessions" while failing to help mitigate the climate emergency. (Photo: tcareob72/Shutterstock)

Nov. 2, 2021

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

As a global climate summit continued in Glasgow, Scotland on Tuesday, an international coalition of advocacy groups warned world leaders that corporate polluters are pushing for "nature-based solutions" to capture planet-heating emissions so they can "keep burning fossil fuels, mine more of the planet, and increase industrial meat and dairy production."

03/11/21
Author: 
Socialist Action
Editor's note: This statement by Socialist Action is useful for discussing how ecosocialists should relate to and work within the NDP. Socialist Action is a fellow participant with the Vancouver Ecosocialist Group in the Socialist Unity Assembly.
 

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02/11/21
Author: 
Charlie Smith
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault are putting on a good show at the COP26 meetings, but can the world really believe what they're saying about cutting greenhouse-gas emissions? ADAM SCOTTI/PMO

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.

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