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Jessica Green has spent the last few years calling for a reckoning in global climate governance. The Paris Agreement isn’t working and the annual Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – otherwise known as COP – is no longer effective, she argues. But there is a better way.

Last year, the University of Toronto researcher published Existential Politics: Why Global Climate Institutions Are Failing and How to Fix Them, in which she argues forcefully a...

On August 26, the side of a mountain near the border between Nepal and Tibet collapsed. Seven billion cubic feet of glacial ice and rock, enough to fill 100 football stadiums, crashed roughly a mile straight down into the river below. The impact created a muddy wall of water that swept through the valley as fast as 100 miles per hour, destroying villages dozens of miles downstream and killing more than 1,300 people. Thousands more remain missing.

The scale of the disaster is extraordinary, even ...

This story was originally published by Canary Media.

Solar is beating coal in China. Sorta. But also not at all.

Let me explain.

An eye-popping new chart made the rounds this week. It shows a line representing solar energy in China rising improbably over the last decade, until at last it overtakes another line that represents the nation’s vast coal fleet. One article featuring this chart came with the following headline: ​“Solar surpasses coal in China, becomes top power source.”

This is exact...

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News , a non-profit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Read the original here. 

Supersonic shockwaves shook the bones of Charlie Hamblen’s historic Maine farmhouse more than a dozen times last year, travelling over half a mile from blasts at a nearby quarry.

The quarry is one of two active in Gorham, a vibrant and growing town of nearly 20,000 residents a few miles west of Portland, and its frequent b...

This story was originally published by Canary Media. It has been edited to conform with Corporate Knights style.

Last summer, when the Republican-controlled Congress took a wrecking ball to the Inflation Reduction Act, Tom Matzzie was pissed. Though some Republican members of Congress had written letters trying to save wind and solar tax credits, when it came time to vote, they nearly all fell in line behind President Donald Trump. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) passed with widespread R...

This story was originally published by Canary Media.

Last summer, when the Republican-controlled Congress took a wrecking ball to the Inflation Reduction Act, Tom Matzzie was pissed. Though some Republican members of Congress had written letters trying to save wind and solar tax credits, when it came time to vote, they nearly all fell in line behind President Donald Trump. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed with widespread Republican support, canceling a decade-long tax incentive meant to ac...

Since leaving Justin Trudeau’s cabinet in 2021, Catherine McKenna has spent a lot of time abroad. In her roles as founder and CEO of Climate and Nature Solutions, chair of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Expert Group on Net-Zero Commitments, and through the growth of her Women Leading on Climate network, McKenna has seen firsthand how countries in Europe and Asia are approaching electrification. But in Canada, she argues, gas influence — and the political turbulence of the Trump era in the...

By now it’s clear that Mark Carney’s government wants to chart a new course for climate-change progress in Canada. Of the Trudeau government’s approach, Prime Minister Carney has said, “The climate plan we inherited from the previous government was well-intentioned and well-suited for the times in which it was designed . . . but as times have changed, we must change our plan to get there.”

The contours of that new plan have been slow in coming, but after the government’s first year and a half in...

This article was originally published on  Dialogue Earth  under the Creative Commons BY NC ND licence. It has been edited to conform with Corporate Knights style.

In early August, President Donald Trump’s State Department posted a five-minute film on social media. The clip details what the U.S. foreign policy office calls one of the “boldest diplomatic statements in American history” – the 1823 Monroe Doctrine.

The Monroe Doctrine was a response to the threat of recolonization of the Americas by E...

This story was originally published by Canary Media.

Europe’s increasingly hot summers come with a worrying trend. The air conditioning that the continent long eschewed as an American indulgence is becoming a necessity, and some of the nuclear reactors needed to run those cooling units are tapping out right as thermometers spike. This summer was especially bad: The series of extreme heat waves that roasted Europe, killing thousands and fueling historic wildfires, also severely impacted the...