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‘Oil and Gas is a Gift from God’: How Does COP29 Come Back from That?
Even with a lukewarm result, the 2015 Paris climate conference inspired such hope and momentum. Now the COP has been taken over by petrostates. How did…
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Mitchell Beer
How Do We Protect Climate Gains from Another Trump Presidency? Challenge Accepted.
There’s no candy coating the political calamity of Donald Trump's win or the moment of peril for climate action and the energy transition. What to do…
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Mitchell Beer
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Why Canada Needs to Send Different Signals to Polluters
We won’t drive down climate pollution, far enough or fast enough, until our system more blatantly signals purchasers to do the right thing. Leaf blowers…
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Gavin Pitchford

October 2024

‘Hopeless, Broken’ Climate Scientists Deliver a Call to Action for Everyone (Encore Edition)
Global heating has brought us to an alarming moment, and climate scientists are doing their jobs by saying so. Doubling and tripling down, not giving…
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Mitchell Beer
Here's How Climate Solutions Defeat Themselves
Let’s all get out there and fight for a new carbon tax, one advocate insisted earlier this month. Because that worked so well the first time.
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Mitchell Beer
What Am I Bid for Your Loved Ones’ Lives and Safety?
We’ll get faster climate action and deeper emission cuts when decision-makers conclude that it costs more to do nothing. Aren’t we there yet?
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Mitchell Beer
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Coffee Price Shock Brings Climate Change to Everyone’s Front Door
With the world’s two biggest coffee producers, Brazil and Vietnam, facing simultaneous droughts, future crops are in jeopardy and prices are on the…
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Mitchell Beer
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September 2024

B.C.'s Least-Known Coal Company Buyout is Bad News for Canada
The deal for a huge coal company takeover is done. And it’s not good for anyone except Glencore and Teck shareholders.
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Joan Baxter
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60-Year Legacy of Industrial Pollution Holds Warning for Oil and Gas Communities
The Grassy Narrows First Nation in northwestern Ontario has struggled with industrial mercury pollution since the 1970s. Is this what Alberta oil and…
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Mitchell Beer
End of the Partnership: What Do You Do When There’s Nothing More to Do?
There won’t likely be a federal election tomorrow. But it’ll take new strategies to keep climate on the agenda with the government on life support and…
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Mitchell Beer
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How #Elxn2025 Could Be the Climate Breakthrough of the Decade
The lead-up to Canada’s next federal election has not been looking hopeful for climate policy. But we’re seeing some strong hints at how to turn that…
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Mitchell Beer

August 2024

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