On October 20th when I heard Prime Minister-designate Justin Trudeau tell the world “On behalf of 35 million Canadians, we’re back,” I teared up and was surprised that my lingering concerns had been temporarily overpowered by hope. But two weeks later, those concerns are still with me as I […]
Former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney, whose foresight and guidance are widely recognized for navigating the Canadian economy safely through the 2008 global financial crises, made a momentous speech at a recent gathering of leading insurers organized by Lloyd’s of London. Carney, now the Governor of the Bank of England and […]
Climate action was prominent on the agenda of the 2015 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Presentations by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, World Bank president Jim Yong Kim, UK climate advisor and economist Lord Stern, and former US Vice-President Al Gore highlighted the significance of action on carbon emissions and […]
Rolling Stone magazine knows it’s time to break up with fossil fuels, as Tim Dickinson explains in his January 2015 article The Logic of Divestment: Why We Have to Kiss Off Big Carbon Now. “As climate-change activists pressure public institutions to dump their fossil-fuel investments, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the right thing […]
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 […]
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 […]
