Enviromental Defense

MARCH 4, 2024

In part one of this series we introduced you to the huge role that the Canadian financial sector plays in exacerbating the climate crisis. Climate change could have some very significant negative impacts on the Canadian economy, and therefore your money. In this blog, we’ll discuss how climate change poses a risk to finance.

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MAY 17, 2024

PennFuture celebrated 25 years of fighting climate change and industrial pollution by holding anniversary celebrations in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to honor seven Pennsylvanians for their contributions to restoring and protecting the environment. Minott's work emphasizes the importance of public policy.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The fossil fuel industry has lobbied the federal government over 1017 times so far this year! In October, the 30 oil and gas companies and industry associations we monitor set a new 2023 record with over 154 monthly lobby meetings , surpassing their previous high. That’s over seven meetings per working day !

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 6, 2024

Statement by Emilia Belliveau, Energy Transition Program Manager Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – At today’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development (ENVI), Members of Parliament grilled the fossil fuel industry about their climate pollution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This week, summer 2023 comes to a close on our calendars but will be remembered for its record-shattering extremes, notably, heat—until, that is, the next record-shattering summer supplants it, quite possibly in 2024. Climate change is only accelerating, and so the threat to vulnerable people is mounting.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In 2023, the court issued two major decisions relating to climate change. The PUC rejected the project even though it would produce fewer emissions than fossil fuels. In upholding the PUC, the court said that the commission was “charged with protecting the right to a life-sustaining climate system.”

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 13, 2023

March was a tight competition between fossil fuel pipeline, extraction, and oil and gas production companies for who could get the most face time with the federal government. That’s over 25 meetings a week in which government officials sat down with an industry trying to delay climate action and get more subsidies.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The climate crisis is causing havoc for communities across Canada and jeopardizing livelihoods. However, Canada is failing to address a key root of the climate crisis — the continued flow of capital by Canadian financial institutions into fossil fuel development and extraction.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

What are the physical limitations of this fossil fuel resource that make it vulnerable during, say, summer droughts , or the types of extreme heat waves the world has been experiencing for months now? Gas plants were the main resource at risk of drought-related outages in ERCOT’s last drought risk report for August 2023.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 26, 2023

It’s proxy season, that time of year when investors have a chance to influence corporate policies and make direct asks to corporate decisionmakers, and in 2023 an unwelcome guest is making its presence felt in the boardroom. However, fossil fuel companies are frequent donors to these networks.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

They’re also hoping to circumnavigate efforts to hold them accountable for their contribution to climate change. ExxonMobil’s early submission, though probably timed to get a head start on defusing climate-related shareholder resolutions, does give us a helpful roadmap of the climate accountability landscape in 2023.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 28, 2023

Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – Environmental Defence experts on climate change, climate finance, Just Transition, clean transportation and, safeguarding freshwater react to the Federal 2023 budget, released today.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 17, 2024

The climate crisis is here. 2023 was the hottest year on record The degree of devastation across Canada in 2023 was difficult to comprehend. July and August 2023 were the hottest months ever recorded globally. Lytton, BC was Canada’s hot spot in 2023 at 42.2°C People lost their homes, communities and livelihoods.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 18, 2023

A first ever trial on constitutional protections from climate change is underway in Montana. In this instance, 16 young people from across Montana, who were between 2 and 18 years old when the case was filed in 2020, brought their constitutional climate lawsuit, Held v. Supreme decisions?), Will it be effective?

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The page hosts all of our monthly round-up reports in which we profile the most active fossil fuel industry lobbyists and the most frequently targeted government ministers and ministries. But, there are millions of people in Canada who want to tackle climate change. This counter is updated every month.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 6, 2024

In addition, the Business Council of Canada (BCC), an industry group to which the banks belong, has pushed the federal government to label fossil fuels as green under the federal government’s proposed sustainable finance taxonomy (a classification system for green investments).

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

One thing was clear – conference attendees were ready and waiting for climate-aligned financial regulation, but something is holding up progress. Conference participants called for two crucial pieces of regulation from the government. Canada’s climate goals depend on it. The calls for action keep coming.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Climate change: Extinction Rebellion end blockade at Shell's Aberdeen HQ The BBC | January 16, 2020 Extinction Rebellion protesters have ended a blockade at the entrances to Shell's Aberdeen headquarters. The Ogoni say that Shell was behind the hanging of nine Ogoni activists fighting Shell, including poet Ken Saro-Wiwa.

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Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

Over the last few years, a unique collaboration involving the American Bar Association (ABA), the International Bar Association (IBA), the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB), and the Law Society of England and Wales (LSEW) has begun to discuss the role of lawyers in combatting climate change and share best practices. John Kerry, then U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Upcoming research from my colleague Dave Cooke shows that electric delivery trucks can reduce climate-warming emissions from driving by up to 92 percent and reduce lifecycle public health impacts by up to 85 percent compared to today’s average fossil-fueled delivery trucks.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 11, 2023

After a landmark 2022—a record $54 billion committed to climate spending and legislation that codified the state’s goals of carbon neutrality by 2045 and 90 percent clean electricity by 2035—a significantly gloomier budget forecast gave rise to fears that California’s climate programs would take a hit.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

While the cost of living crisis rages on, the climate crisis does too. In 2023, Canada experienced its worst ever wildfire season , with 167,000 people forced to evacuate their homes under 211 federal evacuation orders. Fixing the cost of living crisis does not need to come at the expense of fixing climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 17, 2023

cranks its air conditioners to get through historic high temperatures , the need for energy that slows, not hastens, climate change is more apparent than ever. Yet, in 2022, almost 40% of electricity in the US was generated by power plants fueled by natural gas. And now, as the U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 20, 2023

For the first time ever, the CER, an independent energy regulatory agency, has modelled a net-zero scenario in their Energy Futures 2023 report – and what they found is no surprise. degrees, we must quickly transition off of fossil fuels. Global markets are moving away from fossil fuels, and Canada must do the same.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 20, 2024

Introducing the new climate villains: Rich Kruger, CEO of Suncor Greg Ebel, CEO of Enbridge Murray Edwards, Chairman of Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. Greg Ebel registered 71 lobby meetings with the federal government in 2023. When he was at the helm, CNRL successfully weakened Alberta’s methane regulations.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In this year’s edition of World Energy Outlook , the International Energy Agency showed that with the rapid roll out of renewable energy technologies, the demand for fossil fuels – gas, coal and oil – will peak this decade. These wildfires are the result of producing and burning fossil fuels. This is a big deal.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

This is despite the expense of CCS , its record of failures and underperformance , and recognition from climate and energy experts that we need to phase out fossil fuels to avoid climate disasters. He also wants Canada’s efforts to fight climate change watered down , including the emissions cap on oil and gas pollution.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – With six weeks to go until the UN Climate Change Conference COP28, a coalition of leaders of Canada’s environmental organizations are calling on the Prime Minister to move forward with the government’s promised cap on oil and gas emissions.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

California’s insurance sector faces significant risks from climate change. In scenario analysis, financial institutions and their regulators assess risk by modeling various possible economic scenarios (representing combinations of policy and technology outcomes, for example) and how their assets would perform under those scenarios.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 28, 2023

Where do the world’s wealthiest nations stand when it comes to the most important environmental issues of our time: climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution? Canada continues to focus on reducing domestic burning of fossil fuels, rather than phasing out their production. What about Canada? degree temperature limit.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The Pathways Alliance had 12 meetings in July with high ranking public servants in Natural Resource Canada (NRCan), Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Finance and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED), as well as Minister Wilkinson and MP James Maloney. – 12 Meetings Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.,

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Law Columbia

JULY 21, 2023

On July 21, 2023, the Sabin Center launched its latest report, Modelling Climate Litigation Risk for (Re)Insurers. Insurance and Climate Change The increasingly apparent physical and societal impacts of climate change are “ shaking the foundations ” of the insurance industry.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service released proposed regulations on the Clean Hydrogen Production Credit established by the federal Inflation Reduction Act. The proposed regulations advance those goals and will support the development of a robust U.S. On December 22, the U.S. clean hydrogen industry.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

By Rejimon Kuttappan Along with a major expansion of renewable energy, India is also pushing for big increases in its coal production, casting doubt on its climate commitments. On the same day at COP28, the Indian government submitted its third “National Communication” to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 3, 2024

Because of this, regulators worked closely with impacted businesses, community advocates, and technical and policy experts (like UCS!) The HVIP program has invested over $1 billion in California as of the year 2023, with over 12,000 vouchers. Other Frequently Asked Questions… What are the climate benefits from the ACF Regulation?

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 15, 2023

Climate change needs government scale intervention. Is it simply a lack of political will? ( *side eye fossil fuel industry) You don’t have to look any further than the oil and gas lobbyists in government offices every day of the month crying wolf about how unfair and destabilizing climate policy would be to their profits.

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MGKF Law

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

2023 WL 7171547, at *1 (Pa. The holding halts former Governor Tom Wolf’s efforts to make Pennsylvania the first major fossil-fuel producing state to implement a price on carbon emissions. Dep’t of Env’t Prot. Env’t Quality Bd.

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