Carbon Levels & Measurement

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.

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 new industry report finds Canada could see $7 billion more invested in electric vehicle charging infrastructure by 2035 if Ottawa adopted a stronger emissions standard for light-duty vehicles, rather than a weaker one.

As the Greenhouse Gas Protocol reviews feedback on proposed amendments to its flagship Scope 2 emissions guidance, the Business Renewables Centre-Canada is warning that abrupt implementation in Canada, where corporate procurement of renewable energy already struggles against infrastructure and regulatory gaps, could stall the very momentum the amendments are meant...

Canada’s new National Electricity Strategy could cut hundreds of megatonnes of carbon emissions outside the power sector, Transition Accelerator CEO Moe Kabbara tells The Energy Mix. But meanwhile, a “hypothetical” pipeline is still taking up all the political oxygen in the room.

An extensive update to the world’s leading corporate net-zero standard drew praise from carbon removal companies but fury from climate groups that say Big Tech killed one of its most important provisions.