Report from Climate Reality Regional Engagement Coordinator, Sarah Newton, on the conference hosted by the Pembina Institute, April 25–28, 2022 on the Traditional territories of the Kwanlin Dun and Ta’an Kwachan Council (Whitehorse, Yukon) There is a huge opportunity for remote communities to participate in reducing Canada’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions because so many of them rely primarily on diesel generators for electrical power production. For this opportunity to be se

by Charles Hodgson I attended the Climate Reality training in San Francisco in 2012 after having a bit of an awakening in 2009 around the time of the Copenhagen climate summit—COP 15. It was at a dinner party I was hosting. One of our guests turned out to be a climate change denier and we argued furiously. I woke up the

By Donald MacCallum We’ve recently reached a remarkable inflection point in Alberta’s electricity generation industry. There are only three coal power plants still in operation — Genesee 1, 2 and 3 — all of which are currently being repurposed to natural gas by Edmonton-based Capital Power. Coal was the backbone of Alberta’s electricity generation for the majority of its history, accounting for 81 per cent of generation in 2001. That is down to roughly 20 per cent today and s

The historic new report from the IPCC makes it abundantly clear that the time for half measures and empty promises is over. There is a staggering gulf between the pledges of the world’s government, business, and banking leaders and the actions needed to fulfill the goals of the Paris Agreement. As the IPCC outlined, the stunningly rapid cost reductions in clean energy and sustainable technologies available to us today have put all of the solutions we need to reach net zero b

Saturday Spotlight Series I am a proud Northern queer adventurer who you can frequently find hiking mountains to board down, or paddling remote rivers, accompanied by their kids and dogs. My mother was born in Cape Town, South Africa and my father is of Western European descent. I am passionate about urban farming and seek to inspire individual actions as well as policy change to address the climate emergency. Why did you join the climate movement/what pushed you to become i