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At COP28, the fossil fuel industry promoted carbon capture and storage as a way to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In reality, the technology is growing at a snail’s pace compared to wind and solar energy.
There's a growing conflict between ambitious climate action and retrograde investment treaties that indemnify foreign investors from government decisions that cut into their future profits.
At COP28, oil and gas companies and petrostates like Alberta made their pitch to have their climate cake and eat it too. Now that the conference is over and the world has agreed to transition away from fossil fuels, they're in for a rude awakening.
For the past few months, Canadians have been banned from sharing news articles on Facebook and Instagram, places where many people turned for information.
Finding middle ground between the oil and gas sector and climate activists may be the right chess move in politics, but the wrong moral move that gambles with our children’s future.
Contrary to what Premier Danielle Smith keeps saying, the federal government's new emissions cap on oil and gas won't force Alberta to reduce its oil and gas production. That's going to be the market's job — one it's already starting to do.
COP28 has finally delivered a breakthrough commitment for a new Loss and Damage Fund to support the countries most impacted by climate change. But billions are needed if the fund is to serve its purpose and make a real difference.