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What Does AI Cost Us Environmentally? Cities Could Demand Answers

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RMontpellier - Climate Senior @climatesenior.bsky.social · 18h

What Does AI Cost Us Environmentally? Cities Could Demand Answers www.theenergymix.com/what-does-ai...

Climate conscious consumers and governments alike want to embrace artificial intelligence, but its true environmental toll remains largely hidden.

Report Shows How Local Climate Activism Leads to ‘Remarkable’ Gains

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RMontpellier - Climate Senior @climatesenior.bsky.social · 18h

Report Shows How Local Climate Activism Leads to ‘Remarkable’ Gains www.theenergymix.com/report-shows...

A new report puts hard numbers to the effectiveness of “community-based strategies” in the U.S. and Canada, quantifying how much carbon a given law, protest movement, or clean energy project will keep...

Global Renewables to Double by 2030 as U.S. Slumps, China and India Step Up

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RMontpellier - Climate Senior @climatesenior.bsky.social · 18h

Global Renewables to Double by 2030 as U.S. Slumps, China and India Step Up www.theenergymix.com/global-renew...

While global renewable electricity installations will grow at a slightly slower pace than modellers previously expected between 2025 and 2030, total capacity is still on track to double by decade’s en...

E-bikes could cut carbon, congestion and costs — if cities take them seriously

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RMontpellier - Climate Senior @climatesenior.bsky.social · 1d

E-bikes could cut carbon, congestion and costs — if cities take them seriously www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/10/n...

E-bike sales are booming, providing a sustainable form of transportation that also improves public health. Yet American cities remain committed to cars.

The MAGA Pipeline to Breakup Canada

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RMontpellier - Climate Senior @climatesenior.bsky.social · 3d

The MAGA Pipeline to Breakup Canada
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MAGA Alberta’s latest attempt to sow division came in the form of a two-pronged assault.

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RMontpellier - Climate Senior @climatesenior.bsky.social · 7d

The political case for rooftop solar www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/02/o...

The political case for rooftop solar

If there’s one lesson progressive politicians should take to heart from the last decade, it’s that the durability of their climate policies is more important — way, way more important — than their eco...

Pope Leo Calls for Unity on Climate at a Divided Moment

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RMontpellier - Climate Senior @climatesenior.bsky.social · 7d

"there are sobering signs that the world continues to warm, leading to devastating effects for millions of people."
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RMontpellier - Climate Senior @climatesenior.bsky.social · 9d

A rising body of research is trying to quantify the impact of personal climate actions. The results show the most powerful impacts may come from some surprising places.
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Care about climate change? The evidence shows these are the most impactful actions you can take

Care about climate change? Here's what the evidence shows are the most effective things you can do.

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RMontpellier - Climate Senior @climatesenior.bsky.social · 12d

All is not well in oil country. No more pipelines needed.
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Imperial Oil to cut workforce 20% by end of 2027 | Globalnews.ca

Calgary-based Imperial Oil had about 5,100 employees as of the end of 2024, according to a regulatory filing.

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Municipal leaders urge feds to focus on nation-building, not ‘nation-burning’

RMontpellier - Climate Senior @climatesenior.bsky.social · 12d

Municipal leaders urge feds to focus on nation-building, not ‘nation-burning’ www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/30/n...

A coalition of more than 250 leaders has laid out five of its own major projects to replace Ottawa’s fossil-fuel push.

Canada’s emissions flatlined in 2024, early estimate shows

RMontpellier - Climate Senior @climatesenior.bsky.social · 14d

As progress stalls, emissions trends put Canada’s 2030 climate target out of reach, emphasizing the need for coordinated policy reset.
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Canada's success in decoupling economic growth from emissions is faltering. While national emissions in 2024 were down 8.5 per ...

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RMontpellier - Climate Senior @climatesenior.bsky.social · 15d

And to add to U.S. Ambassador small-mindedness, here's an image he can savour.

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RMontpellier - Climate Senior @climatesenior.bsky.social · 15d

We have only just begun #ElbowsUp

Hoekstra’s Big Pout Shows That Withstanding Trump Is Still Job #1
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Hoekstra’s Big Pout Shows That Withstanding Trump Is Still Job #1

U.S. ambassador Pete Hoekstra's gaslighting about Trump's annexation talk isn't going well for him. But it shows how protecting Canada itself still belongs at the top of Mark Carney's agenda.

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RMontpellier - Climate Senior @climatesenior.bsky.social · 16d

Shut out of meetings, environmental groups fight for Carney's consideration www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/23/a...

Shut out of meetings, environmental groups fight for Carney's consideration

Replaying the Trudeau-era strategy of influencing policy by lobbying high-level officials isn't working for climate groups who are now pivoting to an outsider game in an attempt to find leverage in th...

More Canadians feel the impact of extreme weather, poll finds

RMontpellier - Climate Senior @climatesenior.bsky.social · 16d

More Canadians feel the impact of extreme weather, poll finds www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/24/n...

A new poll suggests more Canadians say they are being affected by extreme weather following one of the worst wildfire seasons on record.

Global investment in renewable energy up 10% on 2024 despite Trump rollback

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RMontpellier - Climate Senior @climatesenior.bsky.social · 16d

Investment in energy around the world is likely to hit about $3.3 trillion this year. While more than $1tn of the total is still likely to flow into fossil fuels, double that amount – about $2.2tn – is expected for low-carbon forms of energy.
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Growth rate slightly lower than previous first-half years but sector still strong and resilient, experts say

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Trump takes aim at migration and climate policies in scathing UN speech | BBC News

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Climate Action Network Canada @canrac.bsky.social · 19d

Tens of thousands in 70+ communities across Canada took to the streets in an unprecedented & historic cross-movement mobilisation to #DrawtheLine and demand Mark Carney & the federal government pick a side: injustice, violence, and climate destruction — or a just and safe future for all of us.✊

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RMontpellier - Climate Senior @climatesenior.bsky.social · 18d

What a f***ing moron - “a real genius”. Americans should be ashamed of their President. He's an idiot.
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YouTube video by BBC News

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Why Climate Goals Aren’t a Lost Cause—Even If We Overshoot Them

RMontpellier - Climate Senior @climatesenior.bsky.social · 20d

LIMITING BY HOW MUCH WE EXCEED 1.5°C REMAINS CRITICAL
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Earth will likely warm by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius, but we can’t give up on trying to get temperatures back down

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Linda McQuaig: This is the national project Mark Carney should have chosen

RMontpellier - Climate Senior @climatesenior.bsky.social · 21d

Canada must take the right path - clean energy, better jobs.
Solar is the cheapest energy ever invented. The writing is on the wall for fossil fuels.
"Or are we going to go down clinging to a 20th century status quo in servitude to fossil fuels?" asks John Vaillant
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Long considered a luxury for chardonnay-sipping environmentalists, solar energy now has the potential to become the energy choice of beer-drinking workers concerned about the cost of living.

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RMontpellier - Climate Senior @climatesenior.bsky.social · 23d

A reality check on nation building www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/19/o...

A reality check on nation building

We can either stay hewers of wood and drawers of water, or finish the job and keep the refining profit in Canada.

Progressive groups rally 'common front' to march, challenge elements of Carney agenda

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RMontpellier - Climate Senior @climatesenior.bsky.social · 23d

The protests are part of a global "day of action" broadly aimed at tackling issues around climate change and income inequality.
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Canada-wide protests are planned this weekend, a coalition of progressive civil society groups say, in what organizers call an emerging "common front" to elements of the new Liberal government's agend...

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Surging power demand in Canada is set to turbocharge a renewable energy rebound

RMontpellier - Climate Senior @climatesenior.bsky.social · 24d

Surging power demand in Canada is set to turbocharge a renewable energy rebound www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/17/n...

After a market downdip caused by Alberta’s 2023 moratorium on wind and solar projects, new report finds procurements in BC, Ontario, and Quebec will lead to massive uptake in ‘cheapest, quickest to de...

Home | Draw The Line - For life, for people, for the planet.

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RMontpellier - Climate Senior @climatesenior.bsky.social · 25d

I just joined the global call to #DrawTheLine — for peace, climate justice, and a world beyond fossil fuels. I'll be taking action in Ottawa on Sept. 20, 2025. Will you join me? drawtheline.world?event_id=262...

Join us this September to draw the line against injustice, pollution, and violence; for a future of peace, clean energy, and fairness.

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