Heavy monsoon rains across southern Asia leave hundreds missing and thousands without shelter or critical supplies Indonesian, Thai and Sri Lankan authorities are racing to clear debris and find hund…
Africa’s forests and woody savannas have shifted from acting as a net carbon sink to becoming a source of emissions over the past decade, according to high-resolution satellite data.
Prime Minister Mark Carney reached a tentative deal with the province as part of his program to curb the country’s economic dependence on the United States.
The program aims to use federal funds awarded under the Biden administration to deploy more than 500,000 heat pumps in the chilly region over the next few years.
Hodgson is pushing back against critics who question Carney’s commitment to climate change — a group that now includes Steven Guilbeault, who quit Cabinet on Thursday hours after the landmark Ottawa-Alberta energy agreement was signed. Hodgson said the deal includes a July 1 deadline for any private sector investor pitches that must meet several requirements, including buy-in from the B.C. government and the province’s First Nations groups. “We have a very constructive and productive relationship with the British Columbia government,” Hodgson said. “We have a very respectful and constructive conversation between our two levels of government,” Hodgson said.
Trudeau-era climate minister says Alberta energy deal betrays “environmental issues.” Then-Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault led Canada's delegation to COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. OTTAWA — A prominent member of Mark Carney’s Cabinet quit Thursday in protest of the Liberal government’s decision to roll back Canada’s environmental policies and clear the way for a new oil pipeline. On Thursday in Calgary, Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith signed an agreement that paves the way to boost oil production, advance new pipelines and overhaul controversial energy laws that were a hallmark of then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government. Guilbeault, who had endorsed Carney as Liberal leader and backed him in his run for prime minister, insisted Carney would continue to champion past Liberal policies on the environment.
BEVs reach 21% market share! EVs are picking up in Europe, with some 346,000 plugin vehicles being registered in Europe in October, 229,000 of them being BEVs.
To begin with: Trump’s victory will put climate advocates — and the broader clean energy economy — on defense for the next four years and beyond. He will pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement, just like he did during the first term; he will approve a new tranche of liquified natural gas export terminals; and he will block and then begin to roll back the Environmental Protection Agency’s climate rules for power plants, cars, and light-duty trucks. Eight years ago, when Trump first took office, climate policy was seen as fundamentally limited to the environment — and clean energy was an important but up-and-coming, almost wholesome niche pursuit that Democrats doted upon.