David Suzuki says he "never expected to be marching with other elderly people, demanding our government take immediate action on the global crisis we now call climate change."
Seniors across Canada attended “rocking chair rallies,” marches, movie nights, town halls and other protests Monday to stress the importance of fighting climate change.
Of the 1,500 policies in 41 countries, researchers found only a small fraction actually had impact — and usually as part of a larger strategy that included multiple angles of attack.
A new study demonstrates that intensifiers such as "crisis" or "emergency" or novel new phrases such as "global boiling" aren't helpful in motivating people to get worried about the issue — in most cases, they already are.
Politicians are often fed misleading information by corporate interests that oppose strong climate action, which masks the often overwhelming support of voters for key climate policies.
Annabelle Liao, a 22-year-old University of British Columbia undergraduate student, strives to increase youth engagement and representation in climate action spaces and at decision-making tables.
Investor-state dispute settlement courts have awarded more than US$100 billion of public money to corporations — largely in settlements arising from new green regulations and other public measures that impacted their fossil fuel, mining and other projects.
There are more than 2,600 landfills across the U.S., and collectively, they leak more than 280 million tons of carbon dioxide into the air each year — the equivalent of 74 coal-fired plants. So why are government regulations on the facilities so lax?
Perhaps some relief for climate anxiety can be found by imagining what the world would look like if we embraced these climate-friendly measures — in 2029.