Ecocide & Nature Rights

New research looks at how global warming is impacting pregnancies

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is looking out for oil and gas profits profiteers as she stokes the fires of Alberta separatism. In order to protect the planet-destroying oil and gas industry, she is relying on and helping to build up the far-right and its hate.

After Vermont and New York passed "climate Superfund" legislation, 11 states have introduced similar bills this year.

Climate deniers are changing their strategy to delay climate action. Our new research shows that online denial is shifting to undermine the climate movement,...

Here you will find all of CCDH's research papers and investigations into online hate and misinformation.

Climate change misinformation sows skepticism creating the sense that there is a more extensive debate than there really is. Climate deniers spread baseless, unscientific climate denial harnessing the power of social media platforms.

Climate change disinformation and greenwashing are common social media practices that mislead people and delay action. Learn the difference.

While climate injustice is widely recognized, a quantification of how emissions inequality translates into unequal accountability is still lacking. Here researchers examine how affluent groups disproportionately contribute to the increase in mean temperature and the frequency of extreme events.

Why Governments Won't Act On Climate Change – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every other Friday!Citations and Further Reading:h...

In the Trump White House, environmental justice is deemed "illegal" and polluters are invited to ask for exemptions from the law.

A paper in the journal Nature Climate Change concludes there is limited accountability for corporations that fail to achieve their climate change mitigation ...

Climate has fallen off the electorate’s radar, now ranking sixth in a list of priority issues in a recent poll.

Climate disinformation is hindering our ability to combat the gravest threat of our time

The biggest chemical cover up in history. PFAS has polluted the entire global water system. Now, potentially dangerous forever chemicals are being found in t...

Canadian governments could take advantage of their access to cheaper borrowing and patient capital to bring power generation back into the democratic control. Public ownership of generation and transmission would accelerate deployment of low carbon energy sources according to social and ecological need, not private profit.

Why is Canada lagging behind the rest of the world when it comes to industrial policy, and how can industrial strategy help Canada take serious climate action? Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood, senior researcher at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives focusing on international trade and climate change policy in Canada, sat down with the Perspectives Journal Podcast at the 2024 Progress Summit in April to discuss Canada’s industrial policy vision.

After a long summer break for the Perspectives Journal Podcast, we’re back and with the problematic Temporary Foreign Workers Program in the news, as well as growing anti-immigrant sentiment across Canada and other Western countries, we kicked off this season asking what’s behind this narrative, who’s to blame, and what the working-class is doing to fix this problem.

Danielle Smith's agitations and the insatiable fossil fuel industry's demands will make climate action difficult, but Canada's new prime minister brings the right qualifications — and will have plenty of help in the House.

OTTAWA | TRADITIONAL, UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE ALGONQUIN ANISHNAABEG PEOPLE — Canada’s newly elected Liberal government must step into a greater climate leadership role on the international stage and make smart choices at home in the face of compounding challenges, leaders at environmental advocacy organization Stand.earth said today.  As communities in Canada contend with more […]

As noted in my previous article, Canada and Quebec’s commercial entanglement in the US economy is profound following thirty years of “free trade,” with neoliberal capitalism as its legacy. Suddenly, Trump has thrown this aside for an attempt to neo-fascistize the US and the world. The result is an abrupt…

By Kiley Bense, Bob Berwyn, Dennis Pillion, Georgina Gustin, Jake Bolster, Marianne Lavelle, & Wyatt Myskow One hundred days into the second Trump

Climate change is everywhere. Moving to a new place because it seems less affected is a fool’s errand

In a recent interview, UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance Mark Carney spoke about how private finance is increasingly aligned behind achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. He underlined that people everywhere should keep up the pressure in calling for climate action. Read more here.

Birds are rapidly vanishing from North America, with dramatic population losses in places that were once thought safe.

Climate change has been all but ignored in the Australian election campaign, and world leaders are giving up on the cause, even as the heat rises.

A youth-led climate case is heading back to court. Following a ruling from Ontario’s top court, the stage is set for a resolution of this groundbreaking case.

The emerging global competition for green innovation, markets and investments might boost prosperity without improving environmental sustainability.

Oil and gas companies want everyday people to believe that we're driving the climate crisis. In fact, here are the influential players behind Canada's oil an...

In this introductory video, I explore Murray Bookchin's groundbreaking work, The Ecology of Freedom, and discuss how capitalism actively disconnects us from ...