Giving companies like Microsoft, which is the biggest tech partner to the fossil fuel industry, a principal partner position at COP26, is more than just a bad message, say the authors, it gives them space that should be reserved for non-polluters.
COP26 president Alok Sharma says the clock is ticking for countries to commit to climate action, but consensus on critical issues hasn’t yet been found.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is flying to Europe later this week touting Canada's climate plan and post-pandemic recovery progress at leaders' summits in Italy and Scotland.
Gasoline cars are even more CO2-intensive than coal power plants. And in Canada, it is gasoline, not coal, that is driving climate failure, says columnist Barry Saxifrage.
Twenty-three-year-old Inuk activist Ashley Cummings was the keynote speaker at the World Forum on Climate Justice at Glasgow Caledonian University last month.
Almost 400 young people who met earlier this month in Milan have released a 44-page manifesto with a list of climate action demands and an insistence on being heard a week ahead of COP26.
Days ahead of a critical UN climate conference, Canada’s Climate Minister Jonathan Wilkinson admitted rich countries have failed to meet a critical international climate financing milestone, and are unlikely to reach it for years to come.