Blame Polluters, Not Individuals, for Climate Crisis, Monbiot Urges

The fossil industry’s public relations master stroke has been to convince citizens that we share equal blame for the climate crisis, when the majority of the world’s population has a tiny carbon footprint and 20 colossal fossils have produced 35% of global emissions since 1965, author and activist George Monbiot argues in a blistering opinion piece for The Guardian.

Declare Climate Crisis a Public Health Emergency, Health Organizations Urge Federal Parties

Nearly two dozen organizations representing more than 300,000 Canadian health professionals are out with a call for all the country’s political parties to treat the climate crisis as a public health emergency.

Non-Partisan Campaign Helps Teens Shift Their Parents’, Grandparents’ Voting Priorities

A Toronto mother and entrepreneur has launched CoVote, a non-partisan effort to help teenagers shift their parents’ and grandparents’ perspective on their vote in this month’s federal election.

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Voters Peg Climate Change as Second-Highest Concern as Polls Point to Likely Minority Government

With the party leaders sprinting toward their last televised debate last night, the climate crisis continued to place among voters’ top ballot box concerns, opinion polls pointed to the likelihood of a minority government, and Conservative leader Andrew Scheer was fending off criticism that his campaign manager was in a conflict of interest, after helping the fossil lobby place election-related advertising on social media.

U.S. Renewables+Storage to Wipe Out Coal in 10 Years, Mega-Utility CEO Tells Analysts

Unsubsidized renewable energy and battery storage are so much less expensive than conventional electricity generation that they will likely replace all coal generation in the United States within a decade, the head of the country’s biggest power utility told a conference last week.

Warren Releases Environmental Justice Platform

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) released a new environmental justice plan this week as she continued her quest for her party’s 2020 presidential nomination.

Watt-Cloutier: Protecting the Arctic from Runaway Warming is ‘the Test of Our Time’

Protecting the Arctic from rapid warming is one of the essential steps in averting runaway climate change for the entire planet, Inuit leader Sheila Watt-Cloutier states in an opinion piece for the Globe and Mail.

Confusion Reigns as California Utility Cuts Power in 34 Counties to Reduce Wildfire Risk

California is getting a close-up look at the challenge of trying to prevent severe climate emergencies, and the costs of relying on a “feeble” power utility to adapt on the fly, after Pacific Gas & Electric took 800,000 to a million electricity accounts offline Wednesday in a bid to avert another season of devastating wildfires.

Big Investment Funds BlackRock, Vanguard Resist Shareholder Resolutions for Climate Action

Two of the biggest investment funds in the United States, BlackRock Inc. and Vanguard Group, are consistently voting against shareholder resolutions calling for faster, more effective action to address the climate crisis.

New Vancouver Venture Capital Fund Raises $145 Million for Environmental Technology, Sustainable Products

A Vancouver venture capital firm, Renewal Funds, has raised nearly C$145 million to invest in environmental technology and sustainable consumer products.

Boris Johnson’s Dad Declares for Rapid Carbon Cuts After UK PM Dismisses Protests

The dinner table conversation in one of the UK’s most famous households just got a whole lot more interesting, after Stanley Johnson, father of avid Brexiteer and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, declared in favour of the grassroot movement for climate action.