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After long enjoying a reputation as a "bridge fuel" capable of helping the world achieve its climate goals, natural gas is losing some of its environmental lustre — and that has implications for Canada's energy sector.

Canadian companies are helping drive a wave of fossil fuel expansion in Africa, new data from German climate and human rights group Urgewald shows, and climate advocates say the federal government must step in with strong regulations to turn the tide.

As the federal government moves to tighten regulations on methane emissions, new assessments suggest the amount of the potent greenhouse gas escaping into the atmosphere has been significantly underestimated.

A year after signing onto net-zero banking alliances designed to steer its investments to a climate-safe future, RBC continues pumping billions of dollars into fossil fuel expansion, new data reveals.

Group says the "climate disaster" vehicles were disarmed recently in nine countries — including the U.K., France and Canada.

At a time when the world recognizes the need to end the reliance on fossil fuels, Newfoundland and Labrador is planning to double offshore oil production by 2030.

Clean energy now provides more employment than the fossil fuel industry, reflecting the shift that efforts to tackle climate change are having on the global jobs market, according to a new report.

Government support for fossil fuel companies amid huge profits is a "roadblock" to tackling the climate crisis, the International Energy Agency says.

The technology, put forward as part of the U.K.’s net-zero strategy, could extend the life of fossil fuel infrastructure, according to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.

Ukrainian campaigners call for an immediate end to investments, cut funds for Russia's war and help avoid climate breakdown.

Canada says it can repurpose LNG infrastructure for hydrogen exports. "It's so factually incorrect that it kind of drives you crazy to hear people say it," says hydrogen expert Paul Martin.

With the drive for renewables leading to land-use conflicts, building highly efficient utility-scale solar farms on ever-smaller tracts of land has become a top priority. New approaches range from installing PV arrays that take up less space to growing crops between rows of panels.

The United Nations chief sharply criticized the “grotesque greed” of oil and gas companies on Wednesday, August 3, 2022, for making record profits from the energy crisis on the back of the world’s poorest people, “while destroying our only home.”

The world’s most influential banks need to substantially accelerate climate efforts if global temperature rise is to be kept within the targets of the Paris Agreement, an assessment released on Thursday, July 28, 2022, by an institutional investors group warned.

One in five bank directors also serves on the board of a fossil fuel company, reveals an investigation by Canada's National Observer.