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2008 Issues
- December 16, 2008
UN Climate Negotiations Wrap-Up in Poznan; Canada wins fossil of the year; Stuck in the Tar Sands at the UN climate negotiations; Conservatives “embarrassing Canada” - Government scientist; Nova Scotia Plans to Create New Agency for Energy Efficiency ; Scientists predict seasonal ice-free Arctic by 2015; Commissioner Releases Review of Ontario’s Climate Plan
- December 11, 2008
Canada Leads Race to the Bottom at UN Climate Negotiations; Ottawa’s stand at climate talks hurting native rights; Canada ranks second-to-last in Climate Change Performance Index; Gender and Climate Justice in Poland; UN Climate Negotiations Recognizes Labour Movement; Groups call on Prime Minister to support adaptation in impoverished countries
- December 5, 2008
Climate Action Network Canada Members Takes UN Climate Negotiations by Storm, December 7 Day of Global Action to Stop Global Warming, Canada Shamed by Fossil Awards at UN Climate Conference, Poll: Canadians Want Action on Global Warming Despite Economic Downturn, Arctic Indigenous Organizations and Climate Action Network Canada Join Forces to Push for Climate Action, Groundbreaking Study Shows Canada can Tackle Climate Change and Prosper Economically, Canadian Youth Delegation Says: “No Confidence”
- November 14, 2008
International Energy Agency calls global energy trends “patently unsustainable”; Largest Group Ever of World Investors Warns a New Global Climate Deal Must Be “Strong and Binding” to Unlock a Low Carbon Future; Environment Canada Warns Government about Biofuels; Inuit Activist Encourages Stronger Action on Climate Change; What’s the Buzz on a North American Cap and Trade System?; Al Gore to Obama: “Repower” the US; Majority of Australians Support Government Carbon Cap Plan; On December 7th, Stop Climate Chaos
- November 6, 2008
On December 7th, Stop Climate Chaos; Court Allows Canadian Government to Continue to Violate the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act; Campaign Tactics used in Canadian Election Hinder Climate Change Debate; Study Concludes Single Policy on Climate Change is Not Enough to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Francophonie Pledge to Cut Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- October 10, 2008
Canadian government lets tar sands companies off the hook on climate change; Back carbon tax, leading economists tell politicians; Scientists call for climate action; Party leaders provide video responses to key questions on environment; Climate reality on YouTube; 1 million hits in 12 days for voteforenvironment.ca
- September 30, 2008
Sierra Club/Greenpeace: “Don’t vote conservative if you care about the environment”; Climate Action Network’s Election 2008 website; Voters get strategic with www.voteforenvironment.ca; Youth coalition campaigns for just, green economy; CPAWS decries BC Government’s focus on forestry as climate solution; Sorting through the carbon debate; Scientists find methane time bomb on ocean floor; U.S. ban on tar sands oil upheld
- September 23, 2008
Candidates challenged to take the KYOTOplus pledge; Truckers need fuel efficiency, not diesel tax cuts; Top climate scientist throws support behind Dion; Conservatives challenged to defend their climate plan
- September 16, 2008
Suzuki Foundation launches “Vote Environment” website; Send a sign that you’re voting for Real Action on climate change; Leading Canadian climatologist slams Conservative policies in new book; British jury acquits direct action climate activists
- September 11, 2008
Election Issue: PowerUP Canada Launched; Youths Pledge to Vote for the Environment; Voteforclimate.ca Hits the Web; 4 Former PMs Join in Call for Climate Change Action; The PM wants to lower the price of carbon?
- September 5, 2008
Sierra Club of Canada ranks parties on eve of election; Large ice shelf in Canadian Arctic breaks away; Feds continue to block electric cars on Canada’s roads; Ontario launches pilot carbon offset projects on farms; Federal government pulls $100,000 from BC Sierra Club’s climate change initiative; Shareholder climate activism on the rise; Poor countries need $130 billion a year to cope with climate change; Stop Oil Sands Petitions
- August 15, 2008
Ontario needs carbon tax, says Conference Board of Canada; Unprecedented Arctic melt ice could set new record; New York adopts cap-and-trade; Brazil takes stock of climate threat to agriculture; China to tax gas guzzlers; Canadians Deserve KyotoPlus!
- August 7, 2008
Government exaggerating impact of proposed GHG plan; Government buries report on infrastructure impacts of warming; Huge chunks snap off Arctic ice shelf; Record temperatures close Arctic park; Protestors serve Harper with 11 articles of condemnation on environment; Ontario joins WCI despite refusal to cut tailpipe emissions
- July 24, 2008
Western Climate Initiative draft plan released; Feds to bury climate health report; Short-sighted politics hamper climate action in western provinces; Gore to U.S.: we can solve it; Brown and Sarkozy back Sahara solar plan
- July 18, 2008
Provinces throw out flawed federal climate strategy; Ontario announces landmark boreal forest conservation plan; Alberta introduces $4-billion climate plan - first CO2 pipeline announced; EU puts cap on airline emissions; Indigenous people demand inclusion in UN climate talks
- July 9, 2008
G8 fails to make progress on emissions targets; Developing nations demand more from G8 on climate; Harper pushed for weak climate agreement at G8; Europe to cut back on biofuel targets; Canadians Deserve Kyotoplus!; Ask the UN to create a Global Green Fund
- July 3, 2008
B.C. carbon tax; Groups want real action on climate change from G8 leaders; Commentaries on federal carbon tax proposal; B.C. climate plan; UK wants 15% renewable energy by 2020; Tar sands guided tour
- June 26, 2008
Scientists make climate plea to Harper; Views from the carbon front: commentary on carbon tax proposal; Study shows top earners have biggest carbon footprint; U.S. mayors agree to boycott tar sands; Obama pushes for shift away from dirty oil; Put oil executives on trial, says leading climate change scientist; Looming crisis of climate refugees
- June 19, 2008
Liberals’ Carbon tax proposal unveiled; Green Party Unveils Carbon Tax Proposal; Conservatives go to court for ignoring Kyoto law; Climate change protesters stop coal train; Africa feels the brunt of climate change
- June 11, 2008
House passes Kyotoplus bill; Canadian Labour Congress passes climate change, green jobs and tar sands resolutions; Conservative attack ads on Liberals’ carbon tax proposal foiled; Montreal Climate Exchange is launched; Ontario and Quebec to establish interprovincial cap-and- trade system; Canada named Fossil of the Week; Biofuels exacerbating climate change, says Oxfam
- May 29, 2008
Arctic Disintegration Stuns Scientists; 72% support BC carbon tax; G8 Fails on 2020 Target; World Bank to Announce Two Climate Change Investment Funds; Canadians Deserve Kyotoplus
- May 21, 2008
Species Dying 10,000 Times Faster than Normal: Biotech Giants Seek Patents on “Climate-Ready” Crops: Environment Canada - 2006 C02 Emissions Drop but Major Increases Expected from Oil Sands and Other Sources: Harper Fast-Tracks Oil Sands Project
- May 15, 2008
Polar Bear listed as “Threatened” by Climate Change: Canadians Welcome Carbon Tax – Poll: New Brunswick to do Broad Risk Assessment, Introduce New Flooding Rules: California Car Rules 41% Better than U.S. Federal Standard: C02 Concentration Hits Record High
- May 7, 2008
Federal Government Set to Open Beaufort Sea to Drilling; US Climate Deniers Distribute 11,000 Brochures and DVDs to Canadian Schools; Biofuel Bill Passes Second Reading amid “Food for Fuel” Crisis; BC Introduces Law Enabling CA Car Standards; Pushing “False Hope” of Carbon Capture and Storage; Millennium Development Goals Threatened by Climate Change; Indigenous Peoples Decry Canadian Statement on Climate Change
- April 23, 2008
Quebec Joins Western Climate Initiative; Ontario Ends Clothesline Ban; Major Economies Pan Bush’s 2025 Stabilization Goal; March the warmest on record over world land surfaces; Nicholas Stern - “I Underestimated the Threat”; Earth Day Offering
- April 16, 2008
Climate Change Accountability Act; University of Calgary Account Buys 2006 Federal Election Attack Ads; Manitoba Adopts Kyoto; How Green are you?; GHG Emissions Rate Doubles since 2000; Next IPCC Report: 2014
- April 9, 2008
Action Alert: Government Paralyzes Parliament’s Environmental Agenda; BC Cap and Trade Act Lays Groundwork for Future Targets, Regulations; Bangkok Negotiators Agree to Meeting Schedule, US Targets to Wait for Next President; World Bank Climate Change Funding Initiative Spurs Global Outcry; Climate Change is a Threat to Human Health – WHO
- April 3, 2008
KYOTOplus Campaign pushes leadership, public action; Government warned by Environment Canada last year to Heed 2°C limit; Government plans for capturing oil sands emissions deceptive; Ontario to Stay the Course with Do-Nothing Budget; Canada Upholding Reputation as Climate Laggard at Bangkok Climate Negotiations; ICUN Report Calls for Greater Focus on Low-Tech Solutions
- March 19, 2008
Canada Has No Kyoto Commitments; Carbon Tax Debate Goes National; The Great Glacier Meltdown; Government Delays GHG Regulations for Large Industry
- March 12, 2008
Environmental Groups Raise Bar for Future Oil Sands Approvals; Previous Government Had “Made-in-Canada” Approach ready for Launch in 2006; Environmental Organizations Launch First-Ever National Roadmap on Environment; Washington Studies Ways to Protect Tar Sands from Energy Bill Exclusion; EU Told to Get Ready for Massive Influx of Climate Change Migrants; Queen Elizabeth Calls for Action on Climate Change
- March 5, 2008
Harper Government Working Washington Back-Channels for Tar Sands Exclusion; Climate change poses ‘security risk’; Saskatchewan to replace Alberta on the “Tar Sands are Clean” Washington Tour; US Formally Rejects California Emissions Waiver; Government Filibusters Climate Change Accountability Act; Students Launch Cross-Canada Campaign
- February 27, 2008
Federal Government Delivers “Polluter Gets Paid” Budget; “Science in Retreat” in Canada; Canada Would “More than double” Emissions Savings with California Standard; B.C. Sets Groundbreaking Carbon Tax; Elections Canada to Investigate “Friends of Science”
- February 12, 2008
Clean Cars for Canada; Alberta Liberals Promise Absolute Caps on GHGs within Five Years; Polar Bears Make Manitoba’s Endangered List; Scientists find 9 ‘tipping points’ of climate change; Climate Scientists Predict “Crushing” impact on World’s Poorest; Petition - No New Approvals for Tar Sands Developments!
- February 6, 2008
Government taskforce calls for initial $2 billion Subsidy for Tar Sands Companies to Bury Carbon Pollution; Conference Board of Canada Calls for National Emissions Tax; Canadian Youth Movement Builds on Success in Bali; Harper Government Censors Environment Canada Scientists; UK Uncouples GHG Pollution from Economic Growth; New Analysis of US Spending Compares Military Elephant to “Climate Security” Mouse
- January 30, 2008
Where’s the climate change report, Mr. Lunn?; European Commission Plan to Cut GHG Emissions at least 20% from 1990 Levels by 2020; Alberta Plan will allow GHG Emissions to Climb for the Next 12 Years; COP 15 Website Up and Running
- January 22, 2008
Norway to Become Carbon-Neutral 20 years early; Breakthrough Research shows Worrying Trend for Antarctica’s Ice Sheet; “Made-in-Canada” Fuel Economy Standard based on Weak US Regulations; Remove Nuclear Safety Commission from Natural Resources Canada Oversight
- January 15, 2008
The Path From Bali, Set Carbon Price Now, BC’s GHG Targets Come to Force, Stephen Harper, Be a Leader, Failing Mark to Tar Sands’ Top 10
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