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Climate news articles on the web:
Week of January 29, 2024:
- How 16 Tipping Points Could Push Our Entire Planet Into Crisis
- When YouTube’s climate deniers turn into hopeless climate doomers
- Climate group continues work in qathet community
- Pollution from oilsands far higher than official estimates, new research shows
- Are heat pumps a climate solution in Canada’s coldest cities?
- For professional sports, climate change could create a whole new ball game
Older article links (click to open lists):
January 15, 2024
- John Kerry to step down as US climate envoy BBC JAN 15
- Will we breach the 1.5 C global heating threshold this year? NATIONAL OBSERVER JAN 16
- Why scientists say Canada’s logging industry produces far more emissions than tallied CBC JAN 16
- Climate change made Canada’s warm December twice as likely, study says GLOBAL JAN 16
- Fossil fuel phase out ‘essential and inevitable,’ UN chief says GLOBAL JAN 17
- Red alert in Antarctica NATIONAL OBSERVER JAN 19
- One small step toward solar power from space a success CBC JAN 19
- Canada’s biggest banks behind latest $2-billion loan to Trans Mountain NATIONAL OBSERVER JAN 19
- The oceans are talking to us, and it’s not a pleasant conversation CBC JAN 19
- How hybrid heating could ease the growing pains of a low-carbon grid CBC JAN 19
- Extreme cold and climate change: What’s the deal? CBC JAN 19
- Study: Climate change deniers changing tactics to spread misinformation CNN JAN 20
- The loud fights and quiet conversations driving the quest for a clean power grid in Canada CBC JAN 20
January 8, 2024
- Canada needs to phase out tax breaks for fossil fuels NATIONAL OBSERVER JAN 8
- Honda, federal government meet this week as reports emerge of possible EV plant CBC JAN 8
- New study investigates threat of ‘watermelon snow’ to mountain glaciers CBC JAN 8
- Climate-related weather disasters cost insurers $3.1 billion last year NATIONAL OBSERVER JAN 8
- The West’s gentle fall is a bad omen NATIONAL OBSERVER JAN 9
- 2023 was the hottest year on record — by a long shot CBC JAN 9
- 2023 shattered heat records. Why that could become the ‘new normal’ GLOBAL JAN 9
- World dangerously close to a global warming limit as 2023 goes down as hottest on record CNN JAN 9
- Canada’s next big LNG project may be the sleeper climate issue of 2024 NATIONAL OBSERVER JAN 10
- He drives an electric truck in Yellowknife, but home can’t handle the charger it came with CBC JAN 10
- Radioactive waste dump at Chalk River gets green light to start construction CBC JAN 10
- Trudeau’s uphill battle to save — and sell — carbon pricing NATIONAL OBSERVER JAN 12
- The newest garbage trucks may still smell, but not like diesel exhaust CBC JAN 12
- 2024 is the year the world could reach peak coal use. But it’s a tough habit to quit CBC JAN 12
January 1, 2024
- After a year of disasters, where should Ottawa’s climate policy go in 2024? GLOBAL
- 2023 in review: Premier Danielle Smith sits down for year-end interview with Global News GLOBAL
- How the ultra-rich are driving climate change CBC
- Let’s Talk Trash: Here’s how to reduce your waste PR PEAK
- Fusion energy could wean us off fossil fuels PR PEAK
- Climate change is really happening PR PEAK
- Climate change: Former oil executive Mukhtar Babayev to lead COP29 talks in Azerbaijan BBC
- Germany’s CO2 emissions drop to lowest in seven decades NATIONAL OBSERVER
- House of Commons looking into electric buses to shuttle MPs around parliamentary precinct CBC
- Heavy rain swamps much of Europe in floodwaters CBC
- Carbon offsets are helping protect B.C.’s Great Bear Rainforest. But is that sustainable? CBC
December 25, 2023
- The federal government wants Canadians to switch to electric vehicles. Are they interested? CBC
- In your province or territory, what industry emits the most CO2? CBC
- Amazon drought: ‘We’ve never seen anything like this’ BBC
- The King’s speech: Charles III focuses Christmas address on climate, conflict GLOBAL
- Climate change: Seasonal shifts causing ‘chaos’ for UK nature BBC
- Your monthly roundup of good news for the climate SUZUKI FOUNDATION
- Can Canada’s fleet of water bombers cut it against megafires NATIONAL OBSERVER
- Danielle Smith picks new fight with the feds NATIONAL OBSERVER
- Al Gore on what the world needs to do to stop climate change CNN
- Why doesn’t everyone act against climate change? PR PEAK
- Beyond the brink: Making sense of Canada’s year of climate chaos NATIONAL OBSERVER
- Canada must stop exporting the world’s dirtiest fossil fuel PR PEAK
- The environmental costs of EV batteries that politicians don’t tend to talk about CBC
- Olive oil is getting more expensive — and these Italian farmers can tell you why CBC
- Canada’s heated political conflict over carbon pricing to continue into 2024 GLOBAL
- Wildfires in Alberta burned 10 times more area in 2023 than the five-year average CBC
December 18, 2023
- Natural vs. artificial: Which Christmas tree option is better for the climate? CNN DEC 18
- John Kerry hails the achievements of the COP28 Climate summit CNN DEC 19
- Countries forcing companies to disclose carbon emissions. What about Canada? GLOBAL DEC 19
- Trans Mountain project cost overruns were justifiable and reasonable, company insists NAT OBS DEC 19
- Canada lays out plan to phase out sales of gas-powered cars, trucks by 2035 CBC DEC 20
- Infrastructure required to meet zero-emission vehicle targets by 2035, experts say CBC DEC 20
- Wildfires, floods and smoke: Canada’s top 2023 weather stories GLOBAL DEC 20
- Regulator denied Trans Mountain variance request due to pipeline safety concerns CBC DEC 21
- British Columbians will no longer be given single-use plastic cutlery and bags CBC DEC 21
- Northern Sask. residents concerned about supplies as ice roads delayed by warm winter CBC DEC 21
- Examining COP28’s potential impact on climate change BBC DEC 23
- Drought is causing B.C. utilities to import more power and that will affect your bills in 2024 CBC DEC 23
- Nine breakthroughs for climate and nature in 2023 you may have missed BBC DEC 24
- https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fortisbc-okanagan-pipeline-1.7069098 DEC
COP 28 articles, December 11, 2023
- What is COP28 in Dubai and why is it important?
- Deep divisions ahead of crucial UN climate talks
- COP28 conference looks set for conflict after tense negotiations on climate damage fund
- COP 28 signals the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era
- ‘Moment of truth’ for oil industry: Deepen the climate crisis or help fix it
- What’s the point of the COP28 climate summit?
- UAE planned to use COP28 climate talks to make oil deals
- COP28 host used climate talks to push for oilpatch deals, including in Canada
- COP28 climate summit to kick off this week. What are Canada’s priorities?
- COP28 president denies using summit for oil deals
- See how 28 years of COP climate summits have unfolded in 2 minutes
- What is COP28 in Dubai and why is it important?
- Climate summit in an oil state: can COP28 change anything?
- COP28 climate conference begins with controversy and early financial breakthrough
- Canadian oil and gas execs to talk up emissions reduction plans at COP28
- At COP28 climate summit, there’s concern oil and gas lobbyists have too much influence
- COP28: Canadian ranchers to argue meat should stay on the menu
- Canada commits $16M to new global climate damage fund
- At COP28, UN chief warns world leaders ‘Earth’s vital signs are failing’
- Host country of COP28, UAE, to ramp up oil production, BBC learns
- OPEC+ members agree to significant voluntary oil production cuts
- COP28: A Canadian lawyer’s backchannel strategy to force polluters to act
- Dubai climate talks focus on health as Canadian doctors warn patients already seeing impacts
- COP28: Head of UN talks hits back at climate denial claims
- COP28: Record number of fossil fuel delegates at climate talks
- COP28: UN climate talks go big on ending fossil fuels
- Hard hit by climate change, Indigenous leaders want strong voice at COP28
- To phase out or phase down fossil fuels? Inside the debate at COP28
- Alberta given ‘Fossil of the Day’ award by activists at global climate summit
- COP28: Five reasons for optimism on climate
- UN climate talks in jeopardy in fossil fuel backlash
- UN climate talks wrap with big promises. Have countries lived up to them?
- ‘Not Reduce. Not Abate’: UN Chief Calls for Total Fossil Fuel Phaseout at COP28
- Examining COP28’s potential impact on climate change
- Will the COP28 deal enough to tackle climate change?
- COP28 reaches groundbreaking climate deal in Dubai calling for ‘transitioning away from fossil fuels’
- COP28: Nations reach deal to ‘transition away’ from fossil fuels
- COP28: Landmark summit takes direct aim at fossil fuels
- Greta Thunberg slams COP28 deal as ‘stab in the back’ for nations most hurt by climate change
November 27, 2023
- UAE planned to use COP28 climate talks to make oil deals BBC NOV 27
- COP28 host used climate talks to push for oil patch deals, including in Canada CBC NOV 27
- Oilsands giants continue work on $16.5B carbon capture project, despite lingering questions NOV 27
- COP28 president denies using summit for oil deals BBC NOV 29
- How climate change worsens heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and floods BBC NOV 29
- Who can afford to go green? Hard-pressed consumers are pushing back CNN NOV 29
- Canada’s fossil fuel industry banking on carbon capture to lower emissions. Is it viable? CBC NOV 29
- N. Climate Summit COP28 kicks off in Dubai CNN NOV 30
- COP28 climate conference begins with controversy and early financial breakthrough CBC NOV 30
- Canadian oil and gas execs to talk up emissions reduction plans at COP28 CBC NOV 30
- COP28: Canadian ranchers to argue meat should stay on the menu GLOBAL DEC 1
- The world is counting on COP28 climate summit to yield results SUZUKI FOUNDATION DEC 1
- At COP28, UN chief warns world leaders ‘Earth’s vital signs are failing’ GLOBAL DEC 1
- Canada commits $16M to new global climate damage fund CBC DEC 1
November 20, 2023
- Shift away from fossil fuels now or face nearly 3 C warming by century’s end: UN CBC NOV 20
- Top 1% wealthiest responsible for same amount of carbon emissions as bottom 66% CTV NOV 20
- COP28: Climate action can’t wait ORG NOV 21
- Climate change: Rise in Google searches around ‘anxiety’ BBC NOV 22
- Climate Crossroads: Axing the tax is not a good idea PR PEAK NOV 22
- What is COP 28? The UN Climate Summit explained CNN NOV 22
- COP28 ‘moment of truth’ for oil industry, says energy boss BBC NOV 23
- Peru has lost more than half its water reserves as glaciers rapidly melt CNN NOV 23
- ‘Moment of truth’ for oil industry: Deepen the climate crisis or help fix it CNN NOV 23
- Climate politics heating up in British Columbia GLOBAL NOV 23
- Oil, gas sector must slash planet warming operations to save climate: report GLOBAL NOV 23
- Pregnant people, children face ‘dire’ health consequences from climate change, WHO warns CBC NOV25
November 13, 2023
- Kicking the Clutter: Use what you may already have in your home PEAK NOV 13
- Poll suggests British Columbians cooling to carbon tax GLOBAL NOV 14
- Global emissions set to fall by only 2% come 2030: UN report GLOBAL NOV 14
- Prime minister, B.C. premier announce $1B battery plant to be built in Maple Ridge GLOBAL NOV 15
- Scientists warn of ‘dangerous future’ if global emissions aren’t cut CBC NOV 15
- 30 trillion reasons to make Big Oil pay up NATIONAL OBSERVER NOV 16
- Climate change: US and China take ‘small but important steps’ BBC NOV 16
- Why some scientists are pressing the UN to prioritize climate ‘tipping points’ CBC NOV 16
- Vaillant wins prestigious prize for non-fiction 2023 PR PEAK NOV 16
- Edelman survey finds widespread belief that climate change poses imminent threat CNN NOV 17
- Deadly climate science denial puts us all at risk SUZUKI FOUNDATION NOV 17
- Climate change: Is the world warming faster than expected? BBC NOV 17
- Earth facing dire sea level rise — up to 20m — even if climate goals met GLOBAL NOV 17
November 6, 2023
- Living Golf: A sustainable golf moment is taking action on climate change CNN NOV 6
- Could the Liberals’ carbon tax troubles light a fire under the move toward heat pumps? CBC NOV 7
- Extracting more oil and gas puts emissions goals in jeopardy, new UN analysis says CBC NOV 8
- Northwest First Nations join forces to pursue renewable energy in B.C. GLOBAL NOV 8
- Canada, other countries failing to meet climate change targets: report GLOBAL NOV 8
- UK forests face ‘catastrophic ecosystem collapse’ BBC NOV 9
- Amazon deforestation falls more than 20% to its lowest levels in 5 years CNN NOV 10
- The next election will be a climate change election — because they all are now CBC NOV 11
- Australia will take in people fleeing climate change from Pacific island nation GLOBAL NOV 11
- 2023 Climate Action Progress Report for BC BC Climate Emergency Campaign NOV 12
- What would it take for Canada to hit its climate targets? CBC NOV 12
October 30, 2023
- Carbon emissions threaten 1.5C climate threshold sooner than thought OCT 30 BBC
- Deep divisions ahead of crucial UN climate talks OCT 31 BBC
- Despite opposition and environmental violations, B.C. pipeline project nearly complete OCT 31 CBC
- How a white hydrogen discovery could help global emissions efforts OCT 31 GLOBAL
- C.-based Helijet to add electric vertical-takeoff aircraft to fleet NOV 1 CBC
- Suncor plans to pump 1 billion barrels of oil from a wetland NOV 1 CBC
- Technology aims to sequester carbon deep in the ocean off B.C. coast NOV 2 CBC
- Climate change, future growth centre 30-year vision for West End waterfront NOV 2 GLOBAL
- Let’s Talk Trash: Waste-reduction lifestyles NOV 2 PR PEAK
- Trans Mountain pipeline work blocked in B.C. over environmental non-compliance NOV 2 GLOBAL
- As climate risks increase, developing countries aren’t getting the help they need: UN NOV 3 CBC
- ‘Sponge cities’: An absorbing idea in the face of climate change NOV 4 CBC
October 23, 2023
- Sea-level rise: West Antarctic ice shelf melt ‘unavoidable’ OCT 23 BBC
- World shift to clean energy is unstoppable, IEA report says OCT 24 BC
- ‘Unstoppable’ energy transition means demand for oil, gas, and coal set to peak by 2030 OCT 24 CNN
- World is heading toward series of environmental ‘tipping points,’ UN warns OCT 25 GLOBAL
- Climate crisis could cause ‘catastrophic harm’ to human health, 200-plus medical journals warn OCT 26
- C. residents split on future of provincial carbon tax: poll OCT 26 GLOBAL
- What is COP28 in Dubai and why is it important? OCT 27 BBC
- Why so much recycled clothing is still going in the garbage OCT 27 CBC
- Failure to “look up” won’t make climate crisis go away OCT 27 SUZUKI FOUNDATION
- Thousands more EV charging stations needed in Metro Vancouver to meet demand OCT 27 CBC
- Did Trudeau just undermine his signature climate policy, or save it? OCT 28 CBC
- MPs are calling on Ottawa to take a bigger bite out of fossil fuel companies’ profits OCT 29 CBC
October 16, 2023
- Climate group will spend $80 million to tout Biden’s environmental record CNN OCT 16
- Scotland’s biggest offshore wind farm at full power BBC OCT 16
- Heat pumps outperform gas even in coldest temperatures, finds Canadian researcher BIV COM SEPT 11
- Greta Thunberg charged after demonstration outside oil and gas conference CBC OCT 18
- Caribbean looks to Trudeau to put quest for climate change funding on the world’s agenda CBC OCT 18
- Five charts to help understand Canada’s record-breaking wildfire season CBC OCT 19
- ‘Fire Weather’ Author John Vaillant: What I Told Parliament TYEE OCT 19
- Meet the man fighting city hall to rename natural gas CBC OCT 20
- Halting LNG expansion key to B.C.’s climate future SUZUKI FOUNDATION OCT 21
- Canadians want urgent climate action, but most not willing to pay more tax: poll GLOBAL OCT 20
- “There can be no greater purpose than to work together to save the future of the human race. We have the opportunity to live lives of great purpose.” PRACTICAL UTOPIAN JUN 15
- European Union to Push for Fossil Fuel Phase-out at COP28 ALBERTA BEYOND FOSSIL FUELS OCT 21
October 9, 2023
- BC Ferries forced to gear down vessel electrification ambitions CTV OCT 8
- Climate change can have ‘lifelong impacts’ on young people’s mental health CNN OCT 11
- Canada could lead the world in oil production growth in 2024 CBC OCT 12
- Trans Mountain pipeline has cost Canada $35B. Can Ottawa make it back? GLOBAL OCT 12
- Climate crisis, inequality show need for systemic change SUZUKI FOUNDATION OCT 12
- Biden announces regional hydrogen hubs in hopes of sparking a clean-energy revolution CNN OCT 13
- Wildfires, floods, hurricanes and earthquakes: What you need to know when disaster strikes CBC OCT 13
- How the Supreme Court dealt a blow to Trudeau’s climate ambitions and what comes next CBC OCT 14
- Offshore wind industry in Atlantic Canada could make region energy powerhouse CBC OCT 15
October 2, 2023
- Climate Change: Pope Francis warns world ‘may be nearing breaking point’ BBC OCT 4
- Pope Francis lambasts climate change skeptics and ‘irresponsible’ western lifestyles CNN OCT 4
- Warmest September on record as ‘gobsmacking’ data shocks scientists BBC OCT 5
- World’s biggest companies have made almost no progress limiting global warming since 2018 CNN JUN 8
- Repeating climate truth until it sinks in Suzuki Foundation OCT 5
- Floods, storms and fires displaced 20,000 children every day over past six years CNN OCT 6
- Eco-grief: How the climate crisis is impacting our mental health GLOBAL OCT 7
- World breaches key 1.5C warming mark for record number of days BBC OCT7
- B.C. has doubled its old wildfire record. Experts say we can take action now to slow crisis CBC OCT 7
- Municipalities to build ‘sponge cities’ for extreme rain events. What does that mean? GLOBAL OCT 8
September 26, 2023
- Oceans could be used for carbon capture on a big scale CBC
- Horrific Libya flooding made up to 50 times more likely by planet warming CNN
- Climate Change is Killing Us: UN sounds health alarm CTV
- Humanity has opened the “gates of hell”: UN climate summit hears grim warning GLOBAL
- Canada’s climate commitments called into question on the world stage CBC
- California seals its reputation as a climate juggernaut CNN
- How Halifax is dealing with climate change: And what else is needed CBC
- Fossil fuel demand to peak before 2030 even with no new climate policies GLOBAL
- Powell River receives climate action award PR PEAK
- Baldrey: Are politicians losing their nerve to fight climate change? PR PEAK
- The economy must serve the people and respect the Earth’s limits PR PEAK
September 7, 2023
Africa proposes global carbon taxes to fight climate change BBC, September 7, 2023
Biden administration cancels years long attempt to drill in Alaska national wildlife refuge
Africa climate summit ends with a demand for climate change action
Climate change: UN calls for radical changes to stem warming
BC forests are becoming more flammable due to climate change
UN climate ‘reality check’ a reminder that Canada must phase out fossil fuels
Resource usage and tracker apps:
- Tree Canada, a carbon tracking app: https://treecanada.ca/app/
- An ecological footprint calculator: https://www.footprintcalculator.org/home/en
Reports and documents:
- View and download back issues of our qathet Climate Alliance newsletters
- GLOBAL CARBON BUDGET 2023 – Earth System Science Data – DEC 5 2023
- Broken Record: Temperatures hit new highs, yet world fails to cut emissions (again), UN Emissions Gap Report 2023
- Confront the Climate Emergency: An urgent call to the BC Government, November 2023 Progress Report
- Brown to Green: The G20 Transition Towards a Net-Zero Emmissions Economy, 2019
- ecoCity Footprint Report – An ecological and carbon footprint analysis for achieving one planet living. Prepared by BCIT for the qathet Climate Alliance.
- Powell River Community Food System Assessment
- Synthesis Report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report
- IPCC Report: Climate Change and Land. Summary for Policy Makers
- IPCC, 2018: Summary for Policymakers. In: Global Warming of 1.5°C.
- The Greenhouse Development Rights Framework, G-24 Policy Brief No. 38
- United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples