Emissions

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...

A new map of data centres in Alberta shows proposed AI facilities demanding more than 100 times the electricity used by existing ones in the province, a spike that comes with significant emissions impact.

The European Union's carbon border tax will add new compliance costs for Canadian businesses that trade certain products, especially steel and aluminum, to the bloc.

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.

Alberta’s oil sands facilities on average will pay less than $2 per barrel under an updated carbon pricing schedule, effectively making the much-maligned “carbon tax” a marginal cost for producers, finds a new report.

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...

Canada’s forests are shifting from a carbon sink to a carbon source, driven by wildfire disturbance, reveal carbon cycle models that better represent Canadian landscapes than earlier estimates.

The Alberta county council that granted permits for Meta’s new $13-billion, climate-polluting, gas-powered artificial intelligence (AI) data centre has declared an agricultural disaster due to record-setting extreme weather attributed largely to climate change.

A strengthening El Niño that has already broken records for intensity at its early stages will likely spark even more wild weather worldwide as it grows, “adding fuel to a planet already on fire,” United Nations officials warned Friday.

German utility Uniper has locked down a formal long-term agreement to purchase liquefied natural gas from the $30-billion Ksi Lisims project planned for the northern British Columbia coast.

While major emitting countries say they can't be held accountable for climate harm that predates their awareness of the risks, a new report from the U.S. Center for International Environmental Law shows their governments knew decades earlier than they're now claiming.

The Canadian Climate Institute’s Principal Economist, Dave Sawyer, estimates average new emissions from the oil sands at 20 million tonnes per year, well above the total the industry is offering to capture by the mid-2030s or even 2045.

A bill aimed at increasing the number of wood pellet mills in Louisiana sailed through the state’s legislature last month—despite some lawmakers, including the bill’s sponsor, acknowledging they know little about the controversial industry.

Multi-billion-dollar Pathways project will capture the equivalent of 6.5% of oil sands’ current production emissions in 2035, and won’t touch the 80% of emissions in each barrel that are exported and then burned—if the project is ever finalized.

Community opposition blocked or delayed US$64 billion of data centre projects in the United States in less than a year, yet community concerns do not make the top-four list of considerations for data centre proponents when they pick a location.