To accelerate climate-conscious investment, we need to actively engage Canadians in the climate opportunity and make their stake in fighting climate change more tangible.
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It’s time for climate-conscious risk management and investments to be part of the everyday savings and investment decisions made by individuals and businesses across Canada.
Policies to tackle climate change will make it more expensive not to act.
It is vital to find alternative and sustainable sources of protein to meet the considerable challenge of ensuring food security for the future.
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Sydney has joined more than 600 local governments around the world – as well as the national governments of the UK and Canada – in putting the climate crisis at the heart of all policy decisions.
Frank Jotzo, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University and Salim Mazouz, Australian National University
The federal government claims that Australia’s rising emissions are offset by savings around the globe when Australian gas exports replace other fossil fuels. But the numbers don’t stack up like that.
On March 7, 2019, demonstrators gathered outside the National Assembly in Paris. The sign above reads “Deputies, please save the climate”. The one in front reads “Fossilise the future?”
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By enacting a legislative framework to achieve carbon neutrality, France and the United Kingdom are making a difference in the fight against climate change.
An activist scales a coal heap in Queensland to protest against Australia’s intensive fossil fuel use.
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Yes, Australia’s greenhouse emissions are a small part of the global total. But we’re a rich, emissions-intensive country that could and should be setting a much better example to the world.
In the end, climate policy didn’t swing the federal election, and for those on the losing side it can be tempting to play the blame game. But listening and respect are much better ways to move forward.
The Cape Grim observatory, home of the ‘world’s cleanest air’… and rising greenhouse gases.
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Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at 414 parts per million. But thanks to a recalculation of methane’s warming power, the total amount of greenhouse gases is now equivalent to more than 500.
Energy minister Angus Taylor has a range of options when discussing complex emissions data.
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Australia’s new emissions data for the December 2018 quarter show a rise on the previous quarter, although the raw figures actually dropped. Here’s what that all means.
Greenhouse gas emissions from pharmaceutical companies need to be better monitored and regulated.
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The first study to assess the carbon footprint of the pharmaceutical industry finds that it is far from green.
Giving food that would otherwise go to landfill to hungry people does little to ensure the well-being of Canadians who are food insecure.
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Investors are increasingly concerned about climate change, but for the markets to deploy their full capacities, the dominant principles that guide them need to be revised.
All is not well in the world just because stock markets are up – particularly when it comes to climate change.
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Don’t let stock markets reports convince you that when the markets are up, all is well in the world. When the market is up, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is up, and the global environment is down.
A traffic jam on a busy highway near Vancouver, B.C.
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