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Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley at the International Labour Organization conference in June 2023. Photo via ILO/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Deed)

Exclusive: Overhauling the global financial system with Mia Mottley

In recent years, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has emerged on the world scene as a fierce champion of global financial reform to avert the worst impacts of the climate crisis. In an interview with Canada's National Observer, she unpacks what she hopes to see unfold in forthcoming negotiations.

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By John Woodside | Analysis, Politics | February 1st 2024

Tzeporah Berman, founder of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, speaks at an event in Ottawa on Nov. 6, 2017. File photo by Alex Tétreault

Slow pace of climate talks builds momentum for a new treaty

In the face of accelerating natural disasters and the slow state of climate negotiations, new diplomatic efforts to rein in fossil fuels are being developed. Will it be enough to avoid catastrophe?

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By John Woodside | News, Energy, Politics | December 14th 2023

For the first time in nearly three decades of climate change negotiations, countries have agreed to signal the end of the fossil fuel era

The ‘UAE Consensus’ on climate change is anything but universal agreement. In fact, it reveals the deep divisions set to define the next decade of climate action.

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By John Woodside | News, Energy, Politics | December 13th 2023

Canada tapped by United Arab Emirates to help broker final deal at U.N. climate summit

Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault now finds himself, alongside a select handful of other countries, in a pivotal role brokering the fierce debates around phasing out fossil fuels that have defined COP28.

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By John Woodside | News, Climate Solutions Reporting | December 8th 2023

Quebec’s mission to end oil and gas

At the annual UN climate change negotiations now unfolding in Dubai, Quebec was promoted to the leadership team of the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance –– a coalition of countries and sub-national governments that have committed to banning the exploration and development for new oil and gas.

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By John Woodside | News, Climate Solutions Reporting | December 7th 2023

Saskatchewan's pavilion at the UN climate conference in Dubai. Photo by John Woodside/Canada’s National Observer

Prairie provinces flog oil and gas at climate talks

Former environment and climate change minister Catherine McKenna told Canada’s National Observer it’s “completely bonkers” to come to a climate summit to push oil and gas extraction.

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By John Woodside | News | December 7th 2023

Catherine McKenna speaks during the annual UN climate change negotiations in Dubai. Photo via UNFCCC/Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Deed)

Does Canada need a climate czar?

“There's all sorts of reasons why it's challenging for governments to deliver on commitments, so that's the person who ultimately is cracking the whip, saying we've got to get this done faster," says former federal environment and climate change minister Catherine McKenna.

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By John Woodside | News, Politics | December 6th 2023

Illustration by Ata Ojani / Canada's National Observer

Fossil fuel lobbyists infiltrate UN climate talks in record numbers

"They're private sector entities for whom their priority is to do what's best for their business. And that doesn't make them evil, but it does mean they don't belong here.”

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By John Woodside | Investigations | December 5th 2023

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a press conference about wildfires on June 5, 2023. Photo by Natasha Bulowski/Canada's National Observer

The oil and gas emissions cap is the trophy Trudeau wants. A major update is just days away

In an interview with Canada’s National Observer, Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault said details of the oil and gas emissions cap framework are being finalized but should be ready “in the coming days.”

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By John Woodside | Analysis, Energy, Politics | December 2nd 2023

Officials attend the UNFCCC formal opening of COP28 during the UN Climate Change Conference at Expo City Dubai on Nov. 30, 2023. Photo by COP28 / Christopher Pike (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Deed)

Countries pour money into new loss and damage fund in a stunning achievement for the first day of UN climate conference

With the leadup to COP28 marked by scandal after scandal and geopolitical tensions pitting the Global North and South against each other, establishing a loss and damage fund and pouring hundreds of millions into it on the first day of the UN climate conference is an unprecedented achievement, advocates say.

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By John Woodside | News, Politics | November 30th 2023

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