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Despite soaring profits, oil companies are not paying enough for their environmental damage

Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com At the end of the third quarter reporting season in October, the Big Four oilsands producers...

The detention of migrants in Canadian jails is a public health emergency

Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com This month, human rights organizations launched 12 Days of Action calling on the federal government to...

Planned obsolescence, future landfill, and premium-priced durability

Click here to view original web page at www.wmtc.ca Editors Note: This Blog captures our collective frustrations with planned obsolescence . It highlights how much...

Green Party MP pushes for end to REITs tax exemptions

Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca Treating housing as an investment opportunity and not an inalienable right is exasperating Canada’s housing crisis....

Agroecology can feed Africa and tackle climate change — So Fund It

Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com Advocates say agroecological systems are the way to meet the climate crisis in its fullness —...

Industrial logging is Canada’s hidden climate problem

Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca A new analysis of government data shows that industrial logging is one of Canada’s highest-emitting sectors,...

New fossil fuels ‘incompatible’ with 1.5C goal, thorough analysis finds

Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org There is a “large consensus” across all published studies that developing new oil and gas fields...

Go and Tell the Hungry that Their Food Is Being Thrown in the Garbage

Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net These are facts, not guesses: about 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted and lost… every...

Pembina Institute report examines gaps between oilsands climate pledges and actions

Click here to view original web page at www.pembina.org Oilsands companies must urgently provide more detail on their plans to decarbonize their operations, and make...

Reckoning with the history of public schooling and settler colonialism

Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com In light of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), many Canadians are coming to terms with...

Reducing beef’s carbon footprint is key to achieving net-zero in Latin America and the Caribbean, new paper shows

Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com Almost a dozen countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have pledged to reach net-zero emissions...

Climate change, tipping points and economic gain

Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca Scientists, activists and others are calling on world leaders to commit to redoubling their efforts when...

Isn’t It Time to Challenge the Growth Paradigm?

Click here to view original web page at fpif.org The planet is running out of resources, and humanity ...

Study tracks global forest decline and expansion over six decades

Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com Globally, there was a net loss of 817,000 square kilometers (315,000 square miles) in forest area...

How private corporations stole the sea from the commons

Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org For most of human history, the oceans have been seen as a global commons, the benefits...

AMLO Is Trying to Free Mexico and Latin America From the US’s Imperial Grip

Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is wildly popular ...

Banks are incentivised to fund climate chaos. Here’s how to change that

Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org The world’s largest banks are investing billions into heavily polluting industries, despite publicly endorsing measures intended...

Food giants reap enormous profits during times of crisis

Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com A recent report by Oxfam International has found that 62 new “food billionaires” were created during...

9 million deaths/yr from pollution is ‘largest existential threat’ to humans

Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com A new report has found that pollution is responsible for 9 million premature deaths per year,...

Oil Production Wastes Enough Gas to Power All of Sub-Saharan Africa or Two Thirds of Europe

Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net While the attention of mostly Western media and politicians is quasi exclusively hoarded up by the...

Stop saying ‘Climate emergency!’? (Until, collectively, we mean it?)

Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org The IPCC’s two scariest-yet reports earlier this year made headlines worldwide…for about 24 hours. The world’s...

What Haunts Canada’s Banks? A Green Pivot from Oilsands

Click here to view original web page at thetyee.ca RBC admits fearing climate action could trigger defaults on billions in heavy oil loans. In late April,...

Ontario election: Doug Ford’s poor record on the environment and climate change

Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com With Ontarians heading to the polls on June 2, Premier Doug Ford government’s advertising campaigns are...

Can we Afford a Fair Global Climate Transition?

Click here to view original web page at fpif.org The cost of transformation is not cheap, but consider the alternatives. How to create the political backing...
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