July 8, 2024 – CBC News – While the last 12-month period globally reached 1.64 C above pre-industrial levels, according to the latest data from the Copernicus climate research program, that isn’t quite the same as breaching the 1.5 C limit set in the 2015 Paris Agreement.
But it’s a major alarm that we’re close, and that global warming has continued to speed up in the past few years.
+July 6, 2024 – Winniipeg Free Press – The Discovery Nature Sanctuary on the eastern edge of Winkler will be a hive of activity this summer as a roster of volunteers take turns tending to its new pollinator garden. The promotion of that garden and its need for volunteers is just one of several eco-friendly initiatives recently undertaken by the Pembina Climate Action Network in Southeast Manitoba.
+July 2, 2024 – Winnipeg Free Press – $25M, four-year program ‘crucial step’ in reaching greenhouse gas targets: climate minister. The NDP government’s rebate program for electric vehicles, disclosed in its April budget, came into effect July 1, with the hope it will give the sale of zero-emission vehicles a charge in Manitoba. A $4,000 purchase rebate can apply to any new electric vehicle (EV) or plug-in hybrid that costs $70,000 or less. There is a $2,500 rebate on pre-owned EVs. Manitoba EV purchasers can also access a $5,000 federal rebate on top of the new Manitoba one.
+July 2, 2024 – Financial Times – Shifting weather patterns are reducing crop yields and squeezing supplies, creating what could become a permanent source of inflation.
+July 3, 2024 – Corporate Knights – Last month there was a rare meeting, where the chief executives of Canada’s five largest banks testified before Parliament about their climate commitments. Their testimonies proved why new rules to shift finance away from polluting investments are urgently needed.
+July 1, 2024 – Forbes.com – New stats from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) reveal that food loss and waste generate up to 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions. To put that in perspective, it’s nearly five times what the entire aviation industry produces. And the real kicker? More than half of this food waste comes straight from our kitchens.
+Jun. 27, 2024 – The Narwhal – Manitoba’s environment minister says the ‘decimation’ of her department under the previous government led to oversight gaps in the province’s oil industry. Experts say that spells big risks.
+Jun. 26, 2024 – CBC News – Shell Canada has announced it will forge ahead with a pair of carbon capture projects in Alberta, after recent setbacks for other proposed projects in the sector have cast doubt on the technology.
+Monday, Jun. 17, 2024 – Winnipeg Free Press – Over the past few years, Curtis Hiebert has watched the price of his farm’s fertilizer skyrocket. Now he’s trying to produce the plant food on his own land.Hiebert is piloting a system Ontario-based company FuelPositive hopes will revolutionize Manitoba farm operations.
+June 14, 2024 – Canadian Press – Canada’s greenhouse-gas emissions will be 12 per cent lower in 2030 with carbon pricing in place than they would be if it was scrapped, new federal data published Thursday suggest.
+June 11, 2024 – CBC News – Major changes to the city’s transit route system next year were up for discussion at city hall on Tuesday, and while some are in favour of the overhaul, not everyone is on board.
+June 7, 2024 – The National Post – Canada’s Opposition leader, Pierre Poilievre, has repeatedly attacked our national carbon tax-with-rebate policy. This policy places a rising fee on many sources of climate pollution, including the emissions from burning gasoline. That’s the “tax” part. The “rebate” part is cheques sent to Canadians that more than cover the costs for about 80 per cent of families.
+June 7, 2024 – High North News – As the effects of global warming are felt around the world, nowhere is experiencing such drastic changes as the Far North. Scientists estimate that the Arctic is warming two to three times quicker than any other place on Earth. In Under Thin Ice, a documentary from The Nature of Things, extreme diver and underwater explorer Jill Heinerth travels to Greenland and Canada’s Far North to document what’s happening both above and below the Arctic’s quickly disappearing ice.
+June 4, 2024 – Space.com – Global temperatures are still heading in the wrong direction and faster than ever before. Last year alone, human activities — such as burning coal for cheap power — led to our planet warming by 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.34 Fahrenheit), according to a new report. If we continue pumping heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere at our current rate, scientists say we have about five years before we drive global warming beyond the 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) set by the Paris Agreement.
+June 6, 2024 – Oil CEOs testify before parliamentary committee.
+June 6, 2024 – The Canadian Press – Disaster survivors plead with MPs to act.
+June 6, 2024 – In a pivotal speech at the American Museum of Natural History in New York to mark World Environment Day, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on countries to ban fossil fuel advertising in the same way they restricted tobacco.
“Many in the fossil fuel industry have shamelessly greenwashed, even as they have sought to delay climate action – with lobbying, legal threats, and massive ad campaigns. They have been aided and abetted by advertising and PR companies – Mad Men fuelling the madness,” the UN chief said.
+June 4, 2024 – Winnipeg Free Press – The acceleration of the climate crisis has been breathtaking and talking to experts in a time of crisis is a good thing. But these articles are problematic. They seek to motivate through fear while usualy offering only vague notions of absent “political will” to diagnosis the problem and little beyond “listen to the scientists” as a solution.
+June 4, 2024 – Phys.org – University of Leeds – The second annual Indicators of Global Climate Change report, which is led by the University of Leeds, reveals that human-induced warming has risen to 1.19 °C over the past decade (2014-2023)—an increase from the 1.14 °C seen in 2013-2022 (set out in last year’s report).
+May 28, 2024 – The Canadian Press – The parliamentary secretary for Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is criticizing the parliamentary budget officer for not issuing a more-public correction to its carbon price analysis after finding an error in it. The PBO published a note on its website on April 17 admitting its economic analyses of the consumer carbon price, done in both 2022 and 2023, erroneously included the impact of the industrial carbon price, too. The PBO says it plans to publish an updated analysis in the fall.
+May 27, 2024 – CBC News – Rosa Galvez has taken on a Herculean task: force Canadian financial institutions to prioritize the fight against climate change. More than two years ago, the independent senator from Quebec proposed legislation that would force banks and pension funds to steer away from emissions-intensive investments, such as the oil and gas sector. It would also increase regulatory oversight to determine whether the climate plans laid out by institutions are credible, and limit the presence of fossil fuel executives on the their boards.
+May 18, 2024 = Winnipeg Free Press – Emissions data for Manitoba were just released via the National Inventory Report, once again highlighting the reality that our province is falling behind in the global race to net zero. Manitoba and Alberta are the only Canadian provinces whose emissions have not decreased below 2005 levels — the baseline year used to track progress.
+May 17, 2024 – The National Observer – Western Canada has a lot of explaining to do. Canada’s recently released greenhouse gas inventory shows that every western province has increased its climate pollution since 1990, the international baseline year for measuring climate action. On the other side of the country, every eastern province has reduced its emissions.
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May 15, 2024 – Environmental Defense – Natural Gas is not green. There is serious concern that fossil fuels like liquified natural gas (LNG) and CCUS (carbon capture, utilization, and storage) could be labeled as sustainable by the Canadian Government. A new report aims to ensure they do included into a sustainable finance taxonomy.
+May 14, 2024 – The National Observer – Canada’s five biggest banks are among the 20 largest fossil fuel financiers in the world, according to new research, leading parliamentarians and climate advocates to warn the country is setting itself up for major risks through the energy transition.
+May 13, 2024 – Corporate Knights – MP Charlie Angus says his proposed Fossil Fuel Advertising Act is designed to take on “the lies” of oil and gas, in much the same way parliament zeroed in on Big Tobacco decades ago.
+May 13, 2024 – PNAS Nexus – Human development has ushered in an era of converging crises: climate change, ecological destruction, disease, pollution, and socioeconomic inequality. This review synthesizes the breadth of these interwoven emergencies and underscores the urgent need for comprehensive, integrated action.
+May 13, 2024 – CBC – First detected on Thursday, fire quickly grew by Sunday to 35,000 hectares.
+May 6, 2024 – Winnipeg Free Press – Last school year, a student of mine posed a question that reverberated through my thoughts long after the class had ended: “So, how are you advocating for climate action as an adult?” It’s the kind of question that I hope many of us are thinking about, but frankly, I think many of us are unsure about how to answer. As adults who care for the well-being of children and the environment on which we are all dependent, it’s crucial that we are able to respond to this question. One place requiring these kinds of action-oriented answers is our education system.
+May 7, 2024 – The Globe and Mail – Oil production – Canada’s largest export – reached another record level in 2023, at almost five million barrels a day, up nearly 30 per cent since the Liberals took office. Forecasts suggest oil output could make its biggest-ever jump this year, as many as 500,000 barrels a day, propelled by new capacity on Trans Mountain.
+April 25, 2024 – Vox.com – Greenhouse gas emissions might have already peaked. Now they need to fall — fast.
+April 25, 2024 – National Observer – Plans by Canadian gas utilities to blend hydrogen into their natural gas supplies to purportedly reduce their climate impact will in fact generate more than double the amount of harmful emissions than using natural gas alone, researchers have found.
+April 22, 2024 – Winnipeg Free Press – The Manitoba government announced on Earth Day that it is restoring funding to three environmental non-profit organizations.
+April 21, 2024 – Globe and Mail – Modernizing financial policy for climate action remains the missing piece of Canada’s climate plan. The Climate-Aligned Finance Act is the puzzle piece ready to fill this gap. Policy makers should seize the opportunity to future-proof Canada.
+Apr. 20, 2024 – New York Times – According to data released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Global Monitoring Laboratory earlier this month, last year had the fourth-highest annual rise in global carbon dioxide levels.
+April 18, 2024 – Counterfire – The wildfires in Canada kept burning all winter, and a new season is set to be catastrophic, as climate feedback loops accelerate disaster, warns John Clarke.
+April 19, 2024 – Earth.com – Global warming is undeniable, yet recent winters have witnessed record-breaking, extreme cold temperatures in unexpected areas. This paradoxical situation has scientists investigating the Warm Arctic-Cold Continent (WACC) phenomenon and its far-reaching impacts.
+April 3, 2024 – The Conversation – Problems in Canada’s food system are being felt from field to fork — and they are increasingly hard to swallow.
+Apr. 6, 2024 – Every pallet of bread, potatoes or beef that arrives at the Food Rescue Grocery in Brandon, Man., keeps good food from going to waste. Even better, the operation has been so successful it has been moved to a bigger location.
+Apr. 9, 2024 – Dougald Lamont – The math is clear: the carbon tax is not the cause of people’s economic misery. We need real investments that answer the real concerns of Canadians.
+Apr. 9. 2024 – IPOLITICS AM – With the spring supply cycle now officially underway, the Conservatives are set to devote their first designated opposition day of the season to a motion that puts a new twist on the party’s ongoing call for an end to the federal pricing regime by challenging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to “convene a carbon tax emergency meeting with all of Canada’s 14 first ministers.”
+Apr. 7, 2024 – The Conversation – The costs of climate change are piling up, yet almost 70 per cent of Canadians oppose the recent increase in the federal carbon price.
+Apr. 7, 2024 – Saskatoon Star Phoenix – Pierre Poilievre and a number of premiers are campaigning hard to gather votes around the consumer carbon tax. And make no mistake, this is — for the federal Conservative Party particularly — the wedge issue that has found traction and boosted their election chances in 2025.
+April 9, 2024 – Winnipeg Free Press – Premier Wab Kinew’s commitment to bring the working class along with his pitch to replace the federal carbon tax and rebate system with robust measures to reduce Manitoba’s dependence on fossil fuels is an idea worth consideration. But significantly reducing our carbon footprint will require new and aggressive decisions well beyond what the government has announced to date. And we have a lot of catching up to do, given the disinterest of the previous Tory administration.
+Apr. 6, 2024 – CBC News – Food Rescue Grocery builds on its success, moves to bigger location in Brandon. Store has kept over 740,000 pounds of edible food from landfills since opening in 2022: operations manager.
+Apr. 4, 2024 – Canada’s largest oilsands companies are “misleading” the public about their industry’s environmental impact, according to new peer-reviewed research.
+Apr. 2, 2024 – Winnipeg Free Press – Gavin Schmidt, the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, wrote last month: “If the anomaly does not stabilize by August, then the world will be in uncharted territory.”
+March 28, 2024 – Winnipeg Free Press – Despite its reputation as one of Canada’s cleanest electric grids, Manitoba Hydro used more natural gas-fuelled electricity in the last 12 months than it has in a decade.
+Mar. 24, 2024 – Province of Manitoba – The Manitoba government has appointed a new board of directors for Efficiency Manitoba and issued a new mandate letter to the Crown Corporation. New board members include: Curtis Hull, Climate Change Connection, Cindy Choy, Chair of Sustainable Building Manitoba, John (Jack) Winram, Manitoba Environmental Industries Association, Kimberley (Kim) Laycock – dean of University College of the North, Steven Sobering, the City of Dauphin, Chantel Henderson, Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, Dudley Thompson, Dudley Thompson Consultancy, Duane Nicol, the City of Selkirk, and Stewart Hill, Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak (MKO).
+March 19, 2024 – National Observer – The warmest winter on record could have far-reaching effects on everything from wildfire season to erosion, climatologists say, while offering a preview of what the season could resemble in the not-so-distant future unless steps are taken to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
+March 19, 2024 – Associated Press – GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. weather agency is sounding a “red alert” about global warming, citing record-smashing increases last year in greenhouse gases, land and water temperatures and melting of glaciers and sea ice, and is warning that the world’s efforts to reverse the trend have been inadequate.
+Feb. 9, 2024 – The National Observer – Fuelling our rising horde of gas-guzzlers in Canada is burning down our nation’s climate promises and our kids’ future.
+Feb. 7, 2024 – Though most Manitobans have been enjoying the mild winter, the warm weather may have some negative impacts in the coming months. According to Curtis Hull with Climate Change Connection Manitoba, the dry weather could have “really serious consequences” in the spring and summer, including increasing the risk of forest fires.
+Feb. 6, 2024 – Winnipeg Free Press – A long-awaited city agreement to convert potent landfill gases into renewable energy, with a goal to raise millions of dollars by selling it off, appears on track to begin in about two years.
Feb. 6, 2024 – Winnipeg Free Press – A coalition of Manitoba environmental groups is calling on the NDP government to launch a new geothermal utility to switch over electrically heated homes to ground-source heat to meet the province’s surging electricity needs.
Feb. 3, 2024 – CTV News – Manitoba’s Climate Action Team (CAT) is calling on Manitoba Hydro to create a geothermal utility as a way to save residents money and reduce electricity demand.
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Jan. 22, 2023 – CBC News – About 600,000 Albertans depend on groundwater, and scientists and rural officials say not enough is known about the effects years of drought have had on the unseen flows beneath our feet.
+Jan. 18, 2024 – Global News – The Seal River Watershed is one of the is one of the few large remaining intact watersheds in the world. Spanning thousands of kilometres of land in northern Manitoba, it could soon become protected land.
+Jan. 18, 2024 – Winnipeg Free Press – Premier Wab Kinew is interested in working with Ottawa to examine the federal carbon tax in Manitoba.
+Jan. 18, 2024 – Winnipeg Free Press – A draft plan now calls for the non-profit, industry-funded organization to take over processing the materials and let municipalities choose if they’d like to continue providing residential recycling collection or shift that responsibility over to the association, as well.
Jan. 17, 2024 – The Guardian – Total is 20% higher than thought and may have implications for collapse of globally important north Atlantic ocean currents.
+Jan. 17, 2024 – Wired.com – Global deployment of solar and wind power, plus a surge in EV sales, means emissions from fossil-fuel-derived energy will finally hit the downward slope.
+Jan. 12, 2024 – Associated Press – The latest calculations from several science agencies showing Earth obliterated global heat records last year may seem scary. But scientists worry that what’s behind those numbers could be even worse.
+Jan. 11, 2024 – The National Observer – Enbridge is being investigated by the Competition Bureau for misleading promotional materials in Ontario that claim fossil/natural gas is the cheapest way to heat homes and is “low carbon”.
+Jan. 10, 2024 – Global News – Randy Webber and Mavis Lewis-Webber are embracing green living in Manitoba’s sole certified-passive home. The property looks like a regular home about an hour north of Winnipeg but it is rather unique. “The east, west, and south walls are 18 inches thick, and the north walls are 24 inches thick,” said Randy. The home is energy-efficient and uses geothermal energy for temperature control and solar power is used for the rest.
+Jan. 3, 2024 – Washington Post – As a year of surprising global warmth came to a close, a record high annual average temperature was already assured. Now, some scientists are already speculating: 2024 could be even hotter.
+Jan. 3, 2024 – Winnipeg Free Press – Canada’s Environment and Climate Change Minister Stephan Guilbault recently announced that as of 2035, new vehicles sold in Canada will be zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) — electric, fuel cell, and plug-in hybrid. He also announced that Canada would be supporting the installation of thousands of new electrical charging stations.
+Jan. 2, 2024 – The Guardian – The scientist, whose book Not the End of the World offers a data-based analysis of environmental problems and their solutions, on how being informed and engaged can prevent defeatism.
+Jan. 1, 2024 – CBC – Northern Manitobans are nervously eyeing the sky and their thermometers hoping for the right conditions for winter roads to open. Ralph Harper of St. Theresa Point First Nation, Man., is watching the river in his community hoping it will soon turn to ice. The river needs to freeze so the community’s 294-kilometre winter road can connect to Berens River. But, the weather is not co-operating in the Northern Manitoba community. “We depend on the winter road for our supplies, our materials, our food, our gasoline,” Harper said. “We only have a short window.” Typically the road opens around the first week of January and closes around the first week of March. He says that likely will not happen this year.
+Jan. 1, 2024 – NPR Illinois – All sorts of companies and researchers have embraced artificial intelligence, and that includes people working on climate solutions. Julia Simon from NPR’s Climate Desk is with us to explain how AI is being used to tackle global warming. So, Julia, climate change means more wildfires, and I understand some companies and researchers think AI can help with that.
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