Nathanael Johnson
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Analysis, Business, Energy
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April 5th 2019
Royal Dutch Shell, one of the world’s biggest oil companies, recently dropped out of a D.C. lobby group, saying its lack of support for the Paris Agreement to fight climate change is a "material misalignment" with Shell's stance.
“There are no new federal or provincial GHG policy measures to include since the 2013 report,” said the internal memo, dated Sept. 19, 2014 and released through access to information law several years after it was first requested.
The study, ahead of a historic vote at the UN, sets out the first detailed plan of how countries can protect over a third of the world’s oceans by 2030, a target scientists and policy makers say is crucial in order to safeguard marine ecosystems and help mitigate the impacts of a rapidly heating world.
A new eight-part Netflix series chronicling life on Earth and the threat posed by climate change has received a royal sendoff at London's Natural History Museum.
Yes, you read that correctly: According to recent reporting from McClatchy, Trump’s 2020 strategy has a climate component. Of course, the Trump campaign did its standard about-face in response to the reporting that it had seemingly confirmed earlier, calling it “100 per cent fake news.” Is Trump warming up the idea of climate action? Not quite.
Canada is in the final stages of developing a new federal law (Bill C-69) that will modernize our environmental assessment laws. The bad news: this practical and relatively modest goal has been the subject of an extensive misinformation campaign by the oil and gas industry.
Several recent, narrowly-averted disasters show why Canada needs to step back into its leadership role and call for a ban of heavy fuel oil in the Arctic.
In Alberta and other fossil fuel production jurisdictions there is a whole lot of externalizing going on. Ross Belot examines the corporate practice of pushing environmental liabilities off onto government and society.
