The Prime Minister’s comments on the importance of economic growth over climate change action, reported in a recent article in the Toronto Star, create a false choice. They are evidence that he has ignored the advice from some of Canada’s brightest minds, who for the last 25 years worked on the convergence […]
We recognize the dim future of the fossil fuel economy yet we continue to search frantically for new sources of oil. As KAIROS demonstrates in its research paper “Pumped Up: How Canada subsidizes fossil fuels at the expense of green alternatives“, we spend far more money in Canada to […]
Banking on Divestment, a recent article in Alternatives Journal, explains how Canadian university students are demanding that their schools stop supporting fossil fuels. The article illustrates the important ripple effect that divestment from fossil fuels can have. “The dollars are important but the economic impacts extend far beyond this,” says Cameron Fenton […]
According to this professionally conducted telephone poll: 77% of Canadians support increased taxes on carbon based fuels, with revenues used to fund research and development for energy efficiency and renewable energy programs; and 84% agree that “Rich countries like Canada have a moral obligation to show international leadership by reducing their […]
In this clip from the documentary Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, which aired on PBS in March 2011, Lester Brown, Founder and Director of the Earth Policy Institute, uses the example of a lily pond to demonstrate the accelerating effect of carbon emissions on our climate. This is a simple, […]
As individuals we can make lifestyle changes that help reduce our personal carbon footprint. But the scope and urgency of climate change require our collective action to mobilize the political will necessary for us to transition to a low carbon economy before the scale of the problem is beyond our […]
On June 5th, we sent the following letter to leaders and local candidates from the three major parties in Ontario, plus the Green Party of Ontario: In light of the coming provincial elections, we look forward to hearing your responses to the following questions. 1. How does your […]
350.org founder and author Bill McKibben provides a compelling argument for churches, synagogues, mosques and other religious institutions to divest from the fossil fuel industry.
Jason Thistlethwaite talks about our new era of risk disclosure and risk governance for the fossil fuel industry – and the implications for insurance and investing. In this video from CIGI (Centre for International Governance Innovation), “Jason Thistlethwaite, Director of the Climate Change Adaptation Project at the University of Waterloo, joins […]
Archbishop Desmond Tutu links the fossil fuel divestment campaign to the successful movement against apartheid. In his words, “climate change is a deeply moral issue”.
