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    Canada’s 2030 emissions target is out of reach after progress stalled in 2024: report

    Sept. 18, 2025 – The Canadian Press – OTTAWA – Canada’s short-term targets for reducing its emissions are now out of reach after emission levels remained unchanged last year, and recent federal policies have set back Canada’s progress, Canada’s leading climate policy research organization says in a new report.

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    Study: There is less room to store carbon dioxide, driver of climate change, than previously thought

    Sep. 4, 2025 – Associated Press – Around 1,460 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide can be safely stored underground, but this limit could be reached by 2200.

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    Canada’s out-of-control wildfire crisis in six charts

    Sep. 3, 2025 – The National Observer – Fossil fuel pollution is overheating Canadian forests, spawning an out-of-control wildfire crisis.  Wildfire is now incinerating four times more forest carbon than during the 1990s. In addition to the surging immediate threats of choking smoke, wanton destruction and disrupted lives, rising wildfire is also pumping billions of tonnes of forest carbon into our atmosphere, intensifying long-term climate breakdown. 

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    Every company wants to produce the last barrel sold’: the treaty to stop fossil fuel production

    Sep. 2, 2025 – The fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty initiative aims to sidestep slow-moving UN climate talks by gathering together nations, cities and companies that want to rapidly phase out oil, coal and gas. At the coming Cop30 summit in Belém, it hopes to gather support so it can launch negotiations for a new treaty next year. The group’s founder, Tzeporah Berman, explains why the Amazon rainforest and the global south are an ideal springboard for the movement.

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