The US and China have surprised the world by signing a substantial climate agreement. The US pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 26-28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025. China pledges that by 2030 its emissions will have peaked and 20% of its energy will come from non-fossil fuels. […]
Christiana Figueres, executive secretary at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, speaks here about (among other things) the need for investment to drive the transition to a clean energy economy. “At the conference where she spoke… the determined Costa Rican urges pension fund managers to adopt responsible investing ‘on […]
It’s been a depressing year for anyone watching our climate and the health of the living Earth. Part of the West Antarctic ice sheet has melted past the point of no return, locking in enough sea level rise to drown huge coastal areas. New craters have been found in Siberia […]
Exhilarated and exhausted, we arrived home in the wee hours of this morning from the New York City People’s Climate March. What a day it was! 400,000 people, united in a beautiful, boisterous call for a better future. We joined the 300-strong Toronto350 contingent in the “Stop Tar Sands” section. […]
Be part of the global People’s Climate March! On Sunday, September 21st at 1:30pm, the march will begin at Waterloo Square and end at the Barrel Yards at Father David Bauer Drive, where there will be display tables, petitions and guest speakers. Groups involved so far include KW Citizens […]
The largest climate march in history is planned for September 21, in advance of a major UN summit on the climate crisis. The main march will be in New York, with supporting marches all over the world. See peoplesclimate.org for details. Divest Waterloo will be there in New York! […]
Tired of climate debates between pundits, politicians and industry spokespeople? Try this refreshing hip-hop/rap video from actual climate scientists in Australia. (Warning: profanity)
This spring we learned that the melting of parts of the West Antarctica ice sheet has passed a tipping point, and is now unstoppable. (See e.g. this New York Times article.) This by itself will eventually raise the global sea level by over a meter. Further, this will likely lead […]
Numerous reports over the past year – published by mainstream, high profile groups – have raised alarms about the risks we face if we fail to act, or act too slowly, to reduce our carbon emissions and by extension the accelerating effects of climate change. The most recent report, […]
