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My cancer diagnosis brought the links between pollution and health close to home
Rick Smith
green investing
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report on business
Failure to attract capital for energy transition puts jobs at risk: report
A Shell employee walks past the company's new Quest Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) facility in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada, October 7, 2021. REUTERS/Todd Korol
politics
2019 will be last year of emission increases in Canada, Environment Minister Wilkinson says
Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson responds to a question during Question Period in the House of Commons Thursday November 19, 2020 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
opinion
How a GHG ruling could affect import tax
LAWRENCE HERMAN
opinion
GM’s pivot shows climate push is in high gear
Jeffrey Jones
world
U.S. will ‘make good’ on climate finance pledges, Kerry tells summit
In this file photo taken on Nov. 24, 2020, former U.S. secretary of state John Kerry speaks in Wilmington, Del.
world
Biden administration to unveil more climate policies, urges China to toughen emissions target
FILE PHOTO: Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden walks past solar panels while touring the Plymouth Area Renewable Energy Initiative in Plymouth, New Hampshire, U.S., June 4, 2019. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
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Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan aims to go net-zero by 2050
Ontario Teachers Pension Plan. logo
politics
A Biden presidency opens the door to greater co-operation despite many bilateral challenges
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and then U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden arrive at a state dinner in Ottawa, on Dec. 8, 2016.
opinion
Keystone XL is dead. But who can Jason Kenney blame now?
Max Fawcett
alberta
Alberta green-power co-op sees the light at a church in Canmore
President Jeff Roberts (L) and Corporate Secretary Jodi Conuel of the Bow Valley Green Energy Cooperative which will be facilitating community-owned green power projects, possibly installing solar panels on churches in Canmore, Alberta, December 23, 2020. Todd Korol/The Globe and Mail
world
EU’s landmark climate law to be finalized within months, Portugal says
FILE PHOTO: European Union flags flutter outside the European Commission headquarters, during an EU leaders summit at the European Council headquarters, in Brussels, Belgium December 10, 2020. REUTERS/Yves Herman
report on business
Caisse invests in wind power project in Taiwan as part of green push
FILE PHOTO: A fishing boat sails in front of wind turbines through the Thyboron Canal in Jutland, Denmark, March 14, 2019. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo
opinion
Canadian companies’ poor climate-risk disclosure threatens to drive investors away
Roger Beauchemin
opinion
There’s an alternative to the Liberal carbon tax: a Conservative carbon tax
Andrew Coyne
world
World leaders urged to declare states of ‘climate emergency’ by UN chief
(FILES) A file photo taken on November 12, 2019 shows residents defending a property from a bushfire at Hillsville near Taree, 350km north of Sydney. - An official inquiry into Australia's recent historic bushfire crisis on October 30, 2020 has warned climate-worsened disasters will become more frequent, more costly and more severe -- telling citizens they should ready for "compounding" overlapping crises. (Photo by Peter PARKS / AFP) (Photo by PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images)
opinion
With their carbon-price surprise, the Liberals finally show the courage of their climate-change convictions
Adam Radwanski
canada
Canada’s climate plan: From higher carbon taxes, building retrofits, and a national hydrogen strategy to planting trees
Toronto Oct. 20/08 - Peter Goodman President of Treehouse Land Developmentposes outside a LEED home in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Goodman takes normal old houses and retrofits them to the highest Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System, LEED standards for green buildings. Photo By Deborah Baic The Globe and Mail
report on business
CPPIB launches European company to invest in renewable energy
ONE TIME USE ONLY WITH THIS STORY - RB-CD-CPPIB-EUROPE-1209 ** from writer** add “One of the principals at CPPIB’s new Renewable Power Capital business helped finance the project at his previous employer, General Electric.” Wind turbines operate above fir trees at the Markbygden ETT wind park project near Pitea, Sweden, on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019. Workers are installing turbines perched atop 130-meter tall towers at a rate of about two a week at the site in northern Sweden, where the temperature regularly dips below minus 10 Celsius (14 Fahrenheit) and the sun is hardly seen for months on end during winter. Photographer: Mikael Sjoberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images
globe climate newsletter
Globe Climate: Five years later, the Paris Agreement is not aging well
While the eastbound morning rush hour traffic on the Gardiner Expressway (R) into Toronto is predictably heavy, commuters heading west out of the city is also slow, as photographed on Oct 10 2017. (Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail)
canada
Climate change costs taking large chunk off Canada’s GDP growth: study
Traffic on Highway 401 in Toronto passes under a COVID-19 sign on Monday April 6, 2020. A federally funded research group says the costs of climate change are already taking a bite out of the growth of Canada's economy. The Institute for Climate Choices says those costs are only the start of what's coming. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
world
New Zealand declares a climate emergency, vows public sector will become carbon neutral by 2025
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks in parliament, in Wellington, on Dec. 2, 2020.
world
World leaders look ahead with optimism as they prepare for life after Trump
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, in Washington, on May 19, 2020.
report on business
The carbon market must grow fifteenfold by 2030 to meet Paris Agreement targets
In this file photo from Dec. 16, 2019, Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of England, speaks at a Bank of England Financial Stability Report Press Conference in London.
report on business
How a Joe Biden presidency will change the calculus of Canadian climate policy
Supporters including Jo Lawlor of Pennsylvania (L) pose for photographs with a cutout of former Vice President Joe Biden near the site where Biden and Senator Kamala Harris hope to celebrate their victory in the U.S. presidential race in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., November 5, 2020. REUTERS/Leah Millis
opinion
Why carbon tariffs could be coming to Canada soon
Adam Radwanski
politics
Without other policies, carbon tax must rise substantially to meet climate goals, PBO says
A flare stack lights the sky from the Imperial Oil refinery in Edmonton on December 28, 2018.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
letters
Aug. 18: ‘When will our governments finally read the writing on the wall?’ Readers discuss the oil sands, plus other letters to the editor
Aug. 18: ‘When will our governments finally read the writing on the wall?’ Readers discuss the oil sands, plus other letters to the editor
opinion
A Biden presidency? Why Canada needs its own economic recovery plan to ‘build back better'
Robert Asselin
energy and resources
Major new pipelines and mines must show path to ‘net zero’ emissions by 2050 to get approved
Pipe for the Trans Mountain pipeline is unloaded in Edson, Alta. on Tuesday June 18, 2019.
world
Global warming trends highlight ‘enormous challenge’ of meeting Paris climate pledge, WMO says
Global warming trends highlight ‘enormous challenge’ of meeting Paris climate pledge, WMO says
opinion
Careful, Canada. Don’t get too smug about doing a better job fighting climate change than the U.S.
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