Stories byMitchell Beer

A leading United Nations agency stands accused of issuing a “call to apathy, not to arms”, with a report that confirms humanity will overshoot the 1.5°C global warming threshold in the 2015 Paris climate agreement but understates the potential to phase out fossil fuels and bring emissions to net-zero by...

More than 26 million Canadians in more than 930 communities, more than 60% of the population, have personally faced the impacts of climate change so far this year, the #ElbowsUp for Climate campaign reports in an analysis released this week.

There’s no likely need for Alberta’s proposed West Coast Pipeline, as the rise of electric vehicles and a faster global energy transition drive down future oil demand and prices at a faster rate than industry and governments may have expected, the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) concludes...

With climate change emerging as a top issue in national elections coming up Sept. 13, thousands of people converged on Stockholm just over a week ago for one of the biggest climate marches in recent memory.

At least 160 people are dead, hundreds of tourists and local residents including 24 Canadians are missing, and early analysis is pointing to climate change as a likely contributing factor after a towering flash flood swept through a border area of Nepal and Tibet Wednesday.

Donald Trump’s expanding trade war could be a catalyst for Canada to speed up its energy transition, diversify its trade, and reinforce its economic sovereignty—as long as federal and provincial governments embrace a “crossroads” moment and double down on the clean technologies that are already dominating global energy investments, a...

It’s widely known Canada is facing both an affordable housing crisis and a climate crisis, and the worst possible outcome is solving one to punish the other. If we make the wrong choices today, we risk locking in generations of unnecessary emissions, future maintenance and retrofit costs, infrastructure strain, and...

Canadians won’t be able to respond to climate change without taking control of our own economy and confronting inequality, Social Capital Partners Jon Shell says in a feature interview.

Public opposition to artificial intelligence (AI) data centre projects is surging across Canada and the United States, as outrage over the projects’ energy and water use, noise pollution, carbon footprint—and their proponents’ habit of often ignoring or flouting community opposition—unites voters across the political spectrum.

The Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, and federal government have reached a tentative agreement for up to 14,000 megawatts of hydropower development and 2,000 MW of wind, in what Prime Minister Mark Carney described as the largest clean energy investment in North America.

A new joint venture with majority Indigenous ownership has unveiled a general plan to develop an export terminal at the Port of Baie-Comeau, Quebec, to send liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Europe.

Canadian drivers will shell out an extra $53.8 billion in fuel costs, and additional “climate change-induced global damages” will hit $94.2 billion, as a result of the Carney government’s decision to repeal the federal Electric Vehicle Availability Standard while delaying implementation of more stringent rules for vehicle tailpipe emissions, the...

Climate change arrived this summer for the beloved TV characters and landscapes of Sesame Street, in a special episode where Elmo, Big Bird, Cookie Monster, and friends have to get ready for extreme weather, then learn to help each other through the aftermath.

With the United States energy transition and clean finance communities flexing their political muscle, and anti-renewables incumbents paying the price in their Congressional primaries, a new report says the high energy bills brought on by Donald Trump’s “energy and AI dominance agenda” may be toxic for Republicans when American voters...

The Greenland government has issued a “strong warning” after a U.S. oil company with ties to Donald Trump moved drilling equipment into position for a project that hasn’t received official approval, in what is being interpreted as a possible new front in Trump’s attempts to annex the autonomous and self-governing...

Canada’s biggest oil companies are cashing in on Donald Trump’s war on Iran, with the four biggest oil sands producers reporting a staggering $13.3 billion in profits in the three months ending June 30. And economist Jim Stanford says Canadian households and businesses are paying the price.

A procedural ruling by the Court of Appeal of Ontario has brought the Doug Ford government one step closer to a final judgement on its moves to gut the province’s emissions reduction target after it took office in 2018.

The federal government’s latest move to fast-track the controversial West Coast Pipeline has opened up a new opportunity for opponents to turn up the heat on elected representatives to block the project, one of Canada’s leading climate and energy campaigners said Tuesday.

The proportion of Canadians who identify environment and climate change as a top-three concern has jumped 50% in the last four months, from 14 to 21%, as a summer of epic wildfires, heat domes, and flooding creates what the Angus Reid Institute calls “thorny challenges” for Prime Minister Mark Carney...

A series of four brutal heat waves so far this summer has brought down water levels in two of Europe’s mightiest rivers, impeding coal and diesel resupply in Germany, shutting down nuclear reactors in Hungary and Romania, and prompting Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar to declare an imminent crisis amid...