Ecocide & Nature Rights

Ecocide & Nature Rights

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High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide
High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide
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.
·nature.com·
High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide
Profit, not price, is why we keep burning fossil fuels
Profit, not price, is why we keep burning fossil fuels
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.
·perspectivesjournal.ca·
Profit, not price, is why we keep burning fossil fuels
Is Canada Falling Behind on Green Industrial Policy? with Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood
Is Canada Falling Behind on Green Industrial Policy? with Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood
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.
·perspectivesjournal.ca·
Is Canada Falling Behind on Green Industrial Policy? with Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood
Is Market-based Climate Action Working for Canadians? with Brendan Haley
Is Market-based Climate Action Working for Canadians? with Brendan Haley
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.
·perspectivesjournal.ca·
Is Market-based Climate Action Working for Canadians? with Brendan Haley