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1 week ago | 
theenergymix.com | Gaye Taylor
As Canada’s wildfire season intensifies, Indigenous firefighters are mobilizing to protect their communities from both physical devastation and the psychological toll of evacuations. By May, several First Nations had already faced displacement. James Smith Cree Nation, about 160 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon, was evacuated earlier this month due to a fast-moving fire. Last weekend, smoke concerns triggered an evacuation order for Pimicikamak Cree Nation, 530 kilometres north of Winnipeg.
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2 months ago | 
corporateknights.com | Gaye Taylor
Aligning global climate action with the Paris Agreement would deliver huge increases in prosperity in both high- and low-income countries by 2050, says new research from two leading economic development organizations.
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2 months ago | 
corporateknights.com | Gaye Taylor
When ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) downgraded the creditworthiness of the largest municipal utility in the United States, some experts warned it could signal early cracks in the historically stable municipal bond market. But the wider consensus is that municipalities – in both the United States and Canada – are awakening to climate risk, a shift many see as a positive development.
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2 months ago | 
theenergymix.com | Mitchell Beer |Gaye Taylor
Responding to requests from three of its largest municipalities, Norway is moving to allow cities to enforce zero-emission zones, the better to encourage the uptake of electric vans and trucks in the commercial light transport sector. Norway tops the charts in passenger electric vehicle adoption, with 96% of all new cars registered in January being battery-powered.
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2 months ago | 
theenergymix.com | Mitchell Beer |Gaye Taylor
From firebricks to ice batteries, ancient technologies are being reimagined to help heavy industry and building owners cut emissions and save money. Easily sourced and inexpensive, clay bricks have been used for millennia to retain heat in ovens—and to warm the foot of cold beds.
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2 months ago | 
theenergymix.com | Mitchell Beer |Gaye Taylor
Responding to the Trump administration’s recalibration of U.S. foreign policy, the United Kingdom and many European Union countries are rushing to redirect billions of euros into military spending after previously earmarking them to help the Global South build climate resilience. The move will have serious socio-economic and strategic consequences at home and abroad, policy experts warn.
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2 months ago | 
theenergymix.com | Mitchell Beer |Gaye Taylor
A French-made shipping vessel aims to cut its emissions on North Atlantic crossings by up to 80% through the use of two towering fiberglass sails, a supplementary electric motor, and a range of efficiency-enhancing technologies. The 136-metre Neoliner Origin can carry 5,300 tonnes of cargo and is purpose-built to make its journeys through emissions-free sail power, writes The Loadstar, a supply chain newsletter.
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Mar 3, 2025 | 
theenergymix.com | Mitchell Beer |Gaye Taylor
Following aggressive lobbying by an Australian coal mining tycoon, the Danielle Smith government is moving to pursue metallurgical coal extraction in the eastern reaches of the Rocky Mountains, even though nearly 80% of Albertans say they oppose all coal mining in the region.
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Feb 24, 2025 | 
theenergymix.com | Mitchell Beer |Gaye Taylor
The world’s mountain glaciers lost more than 6.5 trillion tonnes of ice to global heating between 2000 and 2023, and the rate of melt is accelerating, finds a groundbreaking study published in Nature. This equates to an average annual loss of 273 billion tonnes—“about the daily water intake of every person on Earth for 30 years,” says [video] the European Space Agency (ESA), which is working to standardize ice-loss estimates to support global research and monitoring efforts.
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Feb 24, 2025 | 
corporateknights.com | Gaye Taylor
Published by the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) and the parent-led advocacy group For Our Kids, the Polluting Education report argues that industry-backed materials present a distorted picture to students, steering them toward false solutions.
