Canadian financial institutions — banks, pension funds and private equity firms — fund the fossil fuel industry and are therefore helping fuel the climate crisis. Why won’t Ottawa hold them to account?
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When people are involved in planning for climate transition that takes account of their other daily concerns, such as housing and jobs, they become more positive about transformative change.
Both at home and in schools, food can become a powerful tool to empower young people to take climate action, which can lead to reduced climate anxiety and increased feelings of hope for the future.
Striking pushes against the core capitalist dynamics also responsible for global warming.
Climate change is a real threat to national security. So why didn’t our armed forces review properly come to grips with this?
Despite the popular and intuitive notion that people find climate change psychologically distant, a new review of the evidence shows that’s not the case at all.
Promoting small actions, such as reducing plastic use, can be a useful entry point for other actions around climate change. It’s an example of ‘positive spillover behaviour’.
Australia’s environmental movement is not united. The reasons for that go deep.
For the kind of money the federal and Ontario governments probably spent for a Volkswagen EV battery plant in southwestern Ontario, Canada might have been able to launch its own EV maker.
South Africa needs to integrate urban green spaces as part of valuable infrastructure and provide framework for their sustainability.
Canada has no choice but to adapt its energy sources and industries in a ‘just transition.’ If it doesn’t, the inevitable transition will be much more disruptive — and much less just.
Both when disaster strikes and when climate change has more everyday impacts, community radio stations play a leading role in helping locals understand and adapt to the challenges they face.
The UK is focusing on carbon capture and storage technologies but the future is uncertain.
Has climate action bogged down? Hardly. Nations are redoubling their efforts in visible and less visible ways.
African leaders must take radical actions to strengthen the continent’s voice and participation in future events.
The climate emergency is in many ways the Vietnam of today’s young people. The 50th anniversary of the release of resisters to that conflict should give today’s decision-makers pause for thought.
People are starting to notice the weather and climate, and to understand climate change better than ever before.
Digital technologies have the potential to yield positive results, if co-developed and used ethically with Indigenous communities.
If all countries in the world followed Indonesia’s target, the global temperature would rise by 4°C by 2050.
We assessed 187 ASX200 companies – together they produce 32% of Australia’s operational emissions.
Principais colaboradores
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Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada
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Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
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Research Fellow in Climate Change Communication, Climate Futures Program, University of Tasmania, and Lecturer in Communication, Deakin University
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Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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SJD Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
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Professor in Energy and Climate Governance, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University
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Professor, Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada
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Research Fellow, Climate Leadership, Cardiff University
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Lecturer and Research Fellow, School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences. Coordinator, Education for Sustainability Tasmania, University of Tasmania
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Professor, at IMAS and Director of the Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania
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CEO, Climateworks Centre
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Senior Lecturer in Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Physical Climate Change; Director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds
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Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of Environmental Governance Lab, University of Toronto
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Professor of Natural Sciences, UCL
