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IEA Puts ‘Poison on the Menu’ But Maintains Net-Zero Scenario Despite Pressure from Trump
Under intense pressure from the Trump administration, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has issued a carefully-hedged analysis that still shows fossil fuel demand peaking within years, but also portrays an alternate universe of sustained consumption where average global warming approaches 3°C.
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November 13, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Ksi Lisims LNG, North Coast Transmission Line on Next Major Projects List
Prime Minister Mark Carney is hours away from announcing the next tranche of projects the government is referring to the Major Projects Office for review.
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November 13, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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600 Vancouverites Pack City Hall as Cuts Threaten Planning, Sustainability Budget
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim’s proposed “Zero Means Zero” budget, which aims to freeze property taxes in 2026 by cutting or eliminating city services, possibly including the community’s climate and sustainability office, prompted an unprecedented turnout at a special city council meeting, with more than 600 residents signing up to speak.
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November 13, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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PEI Energy Strategy Aims to Cut Household Costs, Boost Local Power
Prince Edward Island’s new 10-year energy plan aims to make the province’s energy supply more independent and affordable while ramping up its wind, solar, and battery storage capacity.
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November 13, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Battery Storage Technology Gains Ground in North America
From Windsor to Denver and beyond, a new wave of battery breakthroughs show energy storage systems making headway in North America.
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November 13, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Germany to Let Local Utilities Close Gas Grids Where Demand Declines Permanently
Germany’s economy ministry is working on a law reform that would enable local utilities to shut down gas grids and cut off consumers from gas supplies, Clean Energy Wire reports.
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November 13, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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EU’s 2040 Climate Deal Criticized for Weakening Ambition
“While the EU keeps its 90% commitment on paper, in effect it’ll be offshoring some of its emission reductions—making it someone else’s problem,” said Jeroen Gerlag, Europe director at Climate Group.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Greenwashing Rules to Be Scaled Back, But Scope of Change Remains Unclear
Canada's greenwashing rules are being scaled back, but it remains to be seen what the changes mean for businesses wanting to talk about their environmental record.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Resolutions on Coal, Flags, and More up for Debate at Alberta UCP Annual Meeting
Reintroducing coal-powered electricity to Alberta's grid and restricting which flags are flown on public property are among dozens of new policy proposals being brought forward by grassroots members of Premier Danielle Smith's United Conservative Party.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Indigenous Groups Get the Spotlight at COP30, But Some Say Visibility Isn’t Power
There's an undercurrent of skepticism that this year's summit—dubbed “the Indigenous peoples COP”—will deliver on organizers' promise to put them front and centre at the event on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, where many Indigenous groups live.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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‘Make Polluters Pay,’ Youth Climate Plaintiff Sophia Mathur Urges MPs
On Oct. 30, 18-year-old climate activist Sophia Mathur—plaintiff in the youth-led Mathur v. Ontario case challenging the province’s weakened emissions target—brought her call for stronger climate action to Parliament Hill. The Mix shares her testimony and responses to committee questions.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Climate Delay Pushes Warming Past 1.5°C, But Countries Can Still Speed Emission Cuts
Delayed action on climate change has put the Earth on course for a calamitous 2.3 to 2.5°C of average warming, but countries can still move swiftly to halt global warming before mid-century and bring emissions below 1.5°C by 2100, according to two separate reports released on the eve of this year’s United Nations climate summit, COP30, now taking place in Belém, Brazil.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Ottawa’s Tax Credits to Reduce Emissions Aren’t Working ss Intended, Watchdog Says
As Prime Minister Mark Carney's government moves to spend billions more on tax credits to support clean energy incentives and carbon capture and storage projects, Canada's environment commissioner says the money already earmarked has not been spent effectively.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Youth Climate Assembly Spotlights Climate Risks, Accountability, Urges Oil and Gas Emission Cuts
The Canadian Youth Climate Assembly has released its final report, following its meeting in Ottawa in September, with a list of 23 recommendations focused on climate risks, accountability, and cutting oil and gas emissions.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Opinion: Ottawa’s Double Standard Leaves Saskatchewan Free to Continue Burning Coal
Nobody likes having to do other people’s jobs for them—especially when it’s the federal government shirking its duty to enforce its own climate laws, leaving ordinary people to step up to the plate. Yet that’s where we find ourselves in Saskatchewan today: civil society groups, local residents, and even children are in court to make sure their province follows federal law.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Solar Helps Keep the Lights On in Jamaica After Hurricane Melissa
Solar panels and battery storage systems are powering households across Jamaica, supporting resilience and reducing local dependence on costly imported fossil fuels after Hurricane Melissa downed power poles and utility lines.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Five Issues to Watch as COP30 Opens in Brazil
As global leaders gather in northern Brazil for the annual United Nations climate summit, their current commitments make it easy to feel that “the entire Paris Agreement experiment is being challenged,” says Manish Bapna, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council. Here are five key issues to watch as negotiations begin.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Dispatches from COP30: Amid Chaos, Multilateralism Finds Life
The Energy Mix is delighted to feature daily reflections and photos from photographer and storyteller Kiara Worth, reporting from COP30 in Belém, Brazil, with a personal look at the people and moments shaping this year’s UN climate summit.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Ontario to Scrap Legal Requirement to Set and Update Climate Target
A lawyer for seven young climate advocates challenging the province's existing climate plan said the latest development shows Premier Doug Ford's government is "further retreating from the climate fight."
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November 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Carney Tells Business Crowd a New Pipeline Project Is ‘Going to Happen’
Prime Minister Mark Carney came close to telling a Bay Street audience Friday that he will secure a new pipeline for Alberta, offering his strongest endorsement of the idea yet.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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More Competitiveness, Less Climate as Carney Releases First Budget
A climate competitiveness strategy that sidesteps emission reduction mandates for fossil fuel producers and sets the stage to repeal a hard-fought cap on the industry’s carbon pollution is a centrepiece of the federal budget released this week by Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Disappointment, Frustration as Climate Champions See ‘Missed Opportunity’ 2025 Canada Budget
The Energy Mix hosted a live blog with nearly two dozen climate and sustainability champions after Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne delivered the Liberal government’s first budget November 4.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Clean Sweep for Climate in First U.S. Elections Since Trump’s Win
This week’s U.S. election results were “a repudiation of the idea that Americans don’t care about energy or climate and these are losing issues, which is what all of these pundits have been going on and on about for about nine months now,” said political scientist Leah Stokes. “That’s really wrong.”
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November 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Canada Should Include Climate Solutions in Its Defence Spending
"Canada has sustained tens of billions in economic losses and significant human health impacts and deaths from wildfire, flood and heat-related events," writes Ralph Torrie, research director at Corporate Knights. "If another country were inflicting this pain and suffering, we would surely be at war with them."
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November 10, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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1,400 Annual Deaths in Canada Linked to Wildfire Smoke, Report Finds
The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change, one of the most comprehensive looks at the subject, suggests that every year from 2020 to 2024 about 1,400 deaths in Canada were associated with wildfire smoke pollution.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:40 AM