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Chris Hatch

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Zero Carbon Columnist Vancouver
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About Chris Hatch

Chris Hatch is the former Executive Director of Rainforest Action Network as well as the former executive editor at Canada's National Observer. He is now a columnist at National Observer and writes the acclaimed Sunday newsletter, Zero Carbon.

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Zero Carbon: Heat pumps on a war footing

The death panel report is a grotesquerie, cataloging just how miserably unfair climate change is to the vulnerable. In addition to failures in preparation and response, the coroners found that most of the 619 climate victims in B.C. were elders and neighbours with medical conditions, typically living in “socially or materially deprived neighbourhoods.”
Analysis, Climate Solutions Reporting | June 13th 2022

Climate silence in the Ontario election

Analysis, Climate Solutions Reporting | June 7th 2022

The war profiteers

Connecting the dots for you on world events, Canadian politics, banking and climate change
Analysis | February 28th 2022

Petro Pierre Poilievre

Analysis | February 15th 2022

Canada supporting fossil fuels at 10 times the G20 average during pandemic

It’s crucial that we don’t accelerate deeper into danger, like we did after the last recession.
Race to a Safer World
Analysis | August 12th 2020

Next Stop: Parents rally for electric school buses

Just days after Prince Edward Island pledged to make the province’s entire school bus fleet all-electric, a network of parents has launched to convince other provincial governments to follow suit.
Race to a Safer World
News | March 9th 2020

UN climate negotiations end in 'demoralizing, enraging' failure

The United Nations climate talks went into record overtime and then ended in failure on Sunday. The countries gathered in Madrid for COP25 were unable to agree on the main objectives of the negotiations and kicked the most important decisions down the road to next year’s meeting in Glasgow, Scotland. 
Analysis | December 15th 2019

COP25 underperforms meager expectations

COP25 managed to underperform even the lowest expectations heading to Madrid. And Australia, Brazil and the United States were the main obstructionists
Race to a Safer World
Analysis | December 14th 2019

Whiplash for Canada at COP25

Race to a Safer World
Opinion | December 13th 2019
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