Chris Hatch
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Climate Correspondent | Vancouver
About Chris Hatch
Chris Hatch writes Canada's National Observer's celebrated Sunday newsletter, Zero Carbon. Chris 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.
Put the eco back in economy
According to researchers at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, the climate crisis will cause $38 trillion in annual losses to the global economy by 2049.
If you believe the race to cut climate pollution requires a strong mandate from the public, the latest polling makes grim reading
The impacts of inflation and the cost of living have knocked climate change down the list of priorities.
The Conservative climate chasm
Around 90 per cent of Canadians who say they intend to vote Liberal or NDP tell pollsters that "climate change is a fact and is mostly caused by human activities," according to a survey by the Angus Reid Institute conducted in March. Yet only one-third of federal Conservative voters accept this foundational climate fact.
Sounding the "red alert"
The planet's dire context is mostly absent from the Canadian carbon pricing debate.
The climate capitalists
If changing the course of a major global industry seems out of reach, you might take heart from the students at Tvind high school in Jutland, Denmark, who built the world’s largest wind turbine in 1978.
Zero Carbon: Kicking the hornet’s nest
Switzerland kicked the hornet’s nest of geoengineering with an official proposal to find a way to shade the Earth at the UN Environment Assembly’s latest gathering in Nairobi.
Zero Carbon: Hope, fear or farce?
Donald Trump's petro-masculinity is certainly getting political oxygen from Conservative leaders in Canada.
Zero Carbon — Zombie fires and smouldering desire
There are more than 50 fires in Alberta, most of them zombie fires that refused to extinguish after the infernos of 2023.
Zero Carbon: The heat beneath our feet
Geothermal networks are one of those brilliantly obvious ideas, once you hear about them. Even better to discover, the idea is already well-tested and deployed.
Zen and the art of not freaking out
At the most basic level, when climate chaos gets overwhelming, we can turn to mindfulness to regulate the nervous system.