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This week’s UN climate report will likely be devastating. But we can still take the actions we need to get the climate emergency under control.
Mitchell Beer
Oil and gas companies can either cut emissions or cut corners. They haven’t been making the right choice so far.
Mitchell Beer
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There’s a need for speed on renewable energy projects, but they won’t get done if they trample local needs and values. Stopping long enough to listen is…
Mitchell Beer

February 2023

The province at the centre of Canada’s fossil industry can thrive in an era of faster, deeper carbon cuts. But only if its leaders stop seizing defeat…
Mitchell Beer
My Grade 10 chemistry teacher knew I’d never earn a science degree. But I still understand why a climate denier can’t head up the World Bank. Here’s why…
Mitchell Beer
Next month’s federal budget can set the pace for the transition off carbon, as long as Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland gets the pivot right.
Mitchell Beer
Fossil profits set new records. The energy transition speeds up. So two of the world’s biggest oil companies tap the brakes.
Mitchell Beer

January 2023

The Coastal GasLink pipeline is trampling Indigenous communities, destroying ecosystems, running over budget, and violating provincial permits. What…
Mitchell Beer
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Canadian pension funds worth $2.1 trillion are gambling our retirement savings on fossil fuel investments. How lucky do you feel?
Mitchell Beer
You wouldn’t have much confidence in a global health conference led by a tobacco CEO. Now the head of the world’s 12th-largest fossil company will chair…
Mitchell Beer
2022 was devastating in so many ways. Who knew that it would leave us with so many reasons to be hopeful, or so many powerful hooks for climate action…
Mitchell Beer

December 2022

An advance in basic research makes nuclear fusion the latest shiny object in energy technology. It mustn’t distract from real decarbonization options…
Mitchell Beer
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