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    Does the global “loss and damages” fund negotiated at COP27 offer lessons for BC?

    The 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) ended last November with an historic agreement to establish a “loss and damages” fund to address the impacts…

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    Spending What It Takes: Transformational climate investments for long-term prosperity in Canada

    The world is confronted with a slew of accelerating and converging crises, from climate change and biodiversity loss to energy insecurity, unaffordable living and rising…

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    Counting the Costs and Contradictions of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion

    Canada’s uneasy relationship between climate change and fossil fuel development was illustrated in November 2021 when seven atmospheric rivers hit southern BC. The “big one”…

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    Severe climate events cost BC economy billions more than reported estimates

    Caroline and Paul Mosterman have seen their share of unusual weather in four-plus decades of farming. But nothing comes remotely close to what they experienced…

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    A burning question

    BC government needs to say how many trees are falling to wood pellet industry Recently, two respected news organizations aired investigative documentaries showing how trees…

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    Capping oil and gas emissions: Production declines must be central to discussion

    New federal proposals for an emissions cap on the oil and gas industry have begun a difficult and uncomfortable conversation, but one that finally gets…

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    Opening the floodgates

    More than climate crisis behind last November’s rising waters, death and destruction; experts urge province to make course correction   First of Two Parts When Premier…

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    A deadly wake-up call

    In aftermath of a landslide that killed five, experts say government must act now to avoid more “preventable” deaths Second of Two Parts (read the…

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    Over a barrel: The case for a windfall profits tax to address surging gasoline prices

    Do you support a windfall profits tax on oil and gas corporations? Let us know at the bottom of this article and sign up to…

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    Jobs and forests up in smoke: Coalition calls for investigation into wood pellet juggernaut Drax

    At 944,000 square kilometres in area, British Columbia is nearly four times larger than the United Kingdom.  But what the latter lacks in size it…

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