Feds create first carbon offset market to help big industry cut emissions
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is creating Canada’s first carbon offset market to help big industry in its quest to cut its greenhouse gas emissions.
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European farmers gear up to produce biogas to offset Russian energy
In lush fields southwest of Paris, farmers are joining Europe’s fight to free itself from Russian gas.
Methane in Earth’s atmosphere rose by record amount last year
Climate scientists say plugging methane leaks and phasing out fossil fuels is necessary to avert catastrophic global heating.
One of the world's worst greenhouse gases, methane increases at record rates
Global atmospheric levels of the potent but short-lived greenhouse gas methane increased a record amount last year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Thursday, February 7, 2022, worrying scientists because of the large role methane has in climate change.
Methane emissions far higher than countries claim
The Paris−based agency International Energy Agency said its analysis shows emissions are 70% higher than the official figure provided by governments worldwide.
Your gas stove is bad for your health and warming the planet — even when you’re not cooking
A peer-reviewed study published Thursday by Stanford University researchers found that as much as 1.3 per cent of the gas used in typical U.S. stoves could be leaking into the atmosphere unburned.
FortisBC doubles down on nefarious efforts to block electrification
The pledge to provide new buildings with 100 per cent renewable gas is a fiction, an imaginary and arbitrary assignment, writes columnist Seth Klein.
This federal program was slammed as poorly designed and a waste of money and here's what Wilkinson's doing about it
The program offers loans of up to $50 million to help oil and gas producers meet or exceed regulations enforcing cuts to their methane emissions.
‘Electrify homes’? Canadians sticking with fossil methane
This is the final article in a three-part series on "Electrify Everything" in Canada. It covers one of our most electrified sectors: Residential buildings.
California's next climate change target is food waste
Banana peels, chicken bones and leftover veggies won't have a place in California trashcans under the nation's largest mandatory residential food waste recycling program that's set to take effect in January.
‘Electrify transport’? Canadians stomp on the gas instead
This is the second article in three-part series on "Electrify Everything" in Canada. It covers our least electrified sector: transportation. (Spoiler alert: Fossil burning is rising hundreds of times faster than electricity use).
‘Electrify everything’? Canada cranks fossil burning instead
The climate crisis requires we "electrify everything." But in Canada, we're cranking up fossil fuel burning instead. Barry Saxifrage takes us on a chart-filled tour of where we are in our climate-required energy transition.
Methane promises: Fool me 26 times …
Despite decades of climate conferences, promises, and deals, methane and carbon dioxide emissions have continued to rise at faster than ever rates. Barry Saxifrage has the receipts.
Canada has overpromised on climate and will fall behind competitors: industry group
Tim McMillan, CEO of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers says,"We've taken some very clear steps that are inconsistent with the rest of the world."