Heavy rain as intense as the downpours behind the recent deadly flooding in Germany and Belgium has been made up to nine times more likely by climate change and up to 19% more intense, BBC News reports, covering a new "rapid attribution" study from the "World Weather Attribution" group of researchers.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh was in Montreal on Monday, where he discussed his party's environmental platform and vowed to end all subsidies for the oil and gas industry, if his party wins next month.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh focused on the environment as he campaigned in central Montreal, where his party hopes to regain seats it lost in the past two elections.
As the first G7 country to make a net zero commitment, talks on whether to approve a new oil field pose a test for the United Kingdom’s climate ambitions.
If elected, the federal NDP would identify fossil fuel subsidies, eliminate them "once and for all," and spend the money on the renewable energy sector, Leader Jagmeet Singh said on the campaign trail Monday morning.
Commitments made by the Liberal and Conservative parties won't get Canada where it needs to be to avert the worst effects of climate change, experts say.
The US Treasury has instructed representatives at multilateral development banks to support clean energy projects over fossil fuels, putting the fate of several gas projects in the balance.
Taxing coal is a simple and effective means to promote a clean energy transition in Indonesia, and the experience of India demonstrates that it is politically and economically feasible.