After five days of nail-biting, anxiety-inducing ballot counting in half a dozen key swing states, Joe Biden has been declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election.
“The Canadian government needs to stop bending over backwards to the big oil lobby and oil-friendly provincial governments at the expense of public health and action on the climate emergency,” says Environmental Defence.
In an argument put forward to scrap the clean fuel standard, Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer claimed it was ‘a secret fuel tax’ that would increase the cost of gas by four cents.
In his exit press conference on Friday, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull put climate policy right at the heart of his demise. He said it was difficult for his governing coalition to agree on any plan to reduce emissions, blaming “bitterly entrenched views that are actually sort of more ideological views than views based, as I say, in engineering and economics.”