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Evening Update: UN publishes latest climate change report; Xi begins state visit to Moscow
(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 16, 2018 An aerial view shows a massive collage of 125,000 drawings and messages from children from around the world about climate change seen rolled out on the Aletsch Glacier at an altitude of 3,400 metres near the Jungfraujoch in the Swiss Alps smashing the world record for the giant postcard, on November 16, 2018. - Earth is hotter than it has been in 125,000 years, but deadly heatwaves, storms and floods amplified by global warming could be but a foretaste as planet-heating fossil fuels put a "liveable" future at risk.o concludes the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has started a week-long meeting to distill six landmark reports totalling 10,000 pages prepared by more than 1,000 scientists over the last six years. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Biden uses first veto to defend rule on ESG investing
US President Joe Biden speaks during a Nowruz reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 20.
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Globe Climate: The final IPCC report looks dire, but there are bright spots
FILE - The industrial backdrop of a BP refinery and a Uniper coal-fired power plant is seen in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, March 6, 2023. A major new United Nations report being released Monday, March 20, 2023, is expected to provide a sobering reminder that time is running out if humanity wants to avoid passing a dangerous global warming threshold. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)
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Immediate action can limit worst effects of climate change, says UN report that distills eight years of science
FILE - People walk through floodwaters after heavy rainfall in Hadeja, Nigeria, Sept 19, 2022. A major new United Nations report being released Monday, March 20, 2023, is expected to provide a sobering reminder that time is running out if humanity wants to avoid passing a dangerous global warming threshold. (AP Photo, File)
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Rising airline emissions could trigger global caps as early as 2024, trade group says
FILE - An aircraft lands at the international airport in Frankfurt, Germany, Nov. 17, 2022. The Internet sites of several German airports were disrupted on Thursday after what may have been a suspected hacker attack, German news agency dpa reported. The disruptions did not appear to have an immediate impact on the country's air traffic, the agency said.( AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)
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Globe Climate: What is the UN ‘High Seas Treaty’ really about?
FILE - Fish swim near some bleached coral at Kisite Mpunguti Marine park, Kenya, June 11, 2022. For the first time, United Nations members have agreed on a unified treaty on Saturday, March 4, 2023, to protect biodiversity in the high seas — nearly half the planet’s surface. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)
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Climate change hits home for some on P.E.I., but it is taking back seat in election
A view of Stanley Bridge, P.E.I. on Wednesday, March 8, 2023. One week into the Prince Edward Island election campaign, there has been plenty of talk about health care and housing. But six months after post-tropical storm Fiona pounded the Island and heightened fears about rising seas, some observers are questioning why climate change is not front and centre on the campaign trail.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Hina Alam
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EU strikes deal to curb energy consumption by 2030
FILE PHOTO: European Union flags flutter outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium August 21, 2020. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo
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Biden to address Parliament during first visit to Canada as President
FILE - President Joe Biden meets with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the InterContinental Presidente Mexico City hotel in Mexico City, Jan. 10, 2023. Biden will visit Canada for the first time since taking office, the White House announced Thursday, March 9. The one-night trip will take place on March 23 and 24. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
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Alberta didn’t reveal Imperial Oil leak for months, says Environment and Climate Change Canada
Handout photo of the overland spill (as opposed to the underground leaks). This is the 5.3 million litre spill that happened Feb 6, 2023. The disturbed land in the foreground is Imperial's remediation efforts, chopping down the trees, and removing the topsoil. But our fear is that it soaked into the permeable surface and muskeg.
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Look beyond grocers such as Loblaw: Food insecurity is going to get a lot worse
Todd Hirsch
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New federal rules call for financial institutions to bolster climate disclosure, risk management
Bank buildings are photographed in Toronto's financial district on June 27, 2018. A coalition of Canadian business leaders have announced a strategic partnership for a program to support Black professionals on Bay Street and elsewhere. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Tijana Martin
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Sultan al-Jaber, COP28 president, calls for climate action
FILE - Sultan al-Jaber, the CEO of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co., talks during the World Government Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Feb 14, 2023. Sultan al-Jaber, who also serves as the chairman of Masdar, a renewable energy company focused on a variety of energy sources including solar, wind, and hydrogen, will deliver a speech to kick off the CERAWeek energy conference being hosted by S&P Global in Houston, Texas. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, file)
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Globe Climate: Indigenous community says they were kept in the dark about industrial leak
Handout photo of the pipes spewing fluid are the tailings ponds. The ponds are built on top of permeable surface, and because of that, and the fact that the berms that surround the ponds were built with the wrong materials, they leak underground. The pictures are showing the tailings ponds "closed loop system" working as designed, to capture the leaking tailings that escape the impoundment and being pumped back into the same ponds that's leaking, only to spill again and repeat the cycle. This system was failing, and tailings were leaking out of 4 ponds were not being caught by their containment system. The pipes pictures filling the pond were just a few hundred meters from the spills. These leaks were happening since at least May 2022, and they never told us.
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CSIS warns climate change threatens Canadian security, prosperity
By betting that it can solve its emissions problem with carbon capture and storage technology, Canada's oil and gas industry risks sadding itself with expensive stranded assets, a new report argues. A dump truck works near the Syncrude oil sands extraction facility near the city of Fort McMurray, Alberta on Sunday June 1, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
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Climate activists splash Royal B.C. Museum’s mammoth ‘Woolly’ with pink paint
The Royal B.C. Museum’s woolly mammoth is shown at the museum in Victoria in this undated handout photo. The centrepiece of the Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria, Woolly the mammoth, had pink paint splashed on his tusks by a protestor who said she was trying to draw attention to climate change.THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Royal B.C. Museum *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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Climate change, Indigenous issues transcend boundaries with Russia, Governor-General Mary Simon says
Governor General Mary Simon speaks during the ‘Stand in Solidarity with Ukraine’ event marking the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine at the Flora Footbridge in Ottawa, on Monday, Feb. 20, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
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Globe Climate: What Canada can learn from the “Norway paradox”
DJI_0439.JPG DJI pix: The Finnmark region in northern Norway has become one of the world’s best testbeds for electric vehicles in winter, with an Arctic climate, long distances and residents who prefer to tow snowmobiles. Photographed Feb. 5, 2023 Photo by Nathan VanderKlippe
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France seeks pro-nuclear alliance for EU energy talks
FILE PHOTO: Electrical power pylons of high-tension electricity power lines are seen in front the cooling towers of the Tricastin nuclear power plant site in Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux, France, November 21, 2022. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard/File Photo
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No, electric cars are not the magic pill to save us from climate change
Willem Klumpenhouwer
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Globe Climate: Can Canada keep up in the race to world cleantech superpower?
China is the world’s fastest-growing market for clean-tech industries, and provides an opportunity for startups to scale up operations more quickly and cheaply than they can in North America.
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Sustainability playing widening role in corporate deal-making
A processing unit at Suncor Fort Hills facility in Fort McMurray, Alta., on September 10, 2018. Elliott Investment Management is seeking changes to the board of directors at Suncor Energy Inc. and is calling for a review of the company's executive leadership. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
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Rising seas risk ‘death sentence’ for some nations, says UN secretary-general
FILE - Sukarman walks on a flooded pathway outside his house in Timbulsloko, Central Java, Indonesia, July 30, 2022. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023, that even if global warming is "miraculously" limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), there will still be a sizable sea level rise. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara, File)
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Skiers seek climate change moves: ‘The seasons have shifted’
FILE - Paula Moltzan, of the United States, competes in the first run of the women's slalom at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022, in the Yanqing district of Beijing. When Paula Moltzan finished second behind Mikaela Shiffrin for the U.S. ski team’s first 1-2 finish in a women’s World Cup slalom in more than half a century recently, it was easy to assume that her more successful teammate was her main inspiration. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati, File)
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Globe Climate: The future of fusion energy
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Extreme weather cost us $3.1-billion in 2022 – this is Canada’s climate wake-up call
Blair Feltmate and Prashant Shukle
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B.C’s pink sea urchins are on the move to shallower waters thanks to climate change
Deepsea fragile pink sea urchin aggregating to feed on decaying seaweed at the Endeavour site during a 2016 expedition, is seen in this image provided February 7, 2023. Pink urchins like these are expanding their territory into shallower B.C. water. Researchers say the movement is a sign of how fast climate change is impacting life in the water. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Ocean Networks Canada/WHOI *MANDATORY CREDITDeepsea*
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Unless building codes catch up to extreme heat, Canada’s future summers will be even deadlier
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Agtech pushes the boundaries of food production and fuels a debate about who is considered a farmer
QuantoTech founder Alycia van der Gracht in one of their hydroponic units that use LED light to grow vegetables in Port Coquitlam, B.C., on January 16, 2023. Jimmy Jeong/The Globe and Mail.
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France’s TotalEnergies plays smart in oil sands retreat
Andrew Willis
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As tornadoes in Canada get more destructive, momentum builds for new building codes to save homes
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High grocery prices and food insecurity – the system is broken all over the world
Gisèle Yasmeen
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Globe Climate: Your home isn’t built to last against extreme weather
A man surveys the damage left after a tornado touched down in his neighbourhood, in Barrie, Ont., on Thurs., July 15, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov
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Code minimum: Your home isn’t built for extreme weather
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Federal Environment Minister might intervene in Ontario’s Greenbelt development plan
Property at 10378 Hwy 48 in Markham, Ont. is photographed on Jan 16, 2023. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail. The land is one of several that was bought shortly before an announcement of housing being built on the Greenbelt. Provincial opposition leaders are asking for a probe.