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To transform Canada’s economy, we need an all-hands-on-deck approach and meaningful engagement with civil society, workers, local & Indigenous communities. How we build things matters. Together, we must build the right things, the right way. More from @carobrouillette.bsky.social 👇
🚀350 Canada and Sacred Earth have just co-launched a brand new campaign to demand a People’s Power Grid: an East-West Grid that provides affordable, reliable, renewable electricity to people from coast to coast to coast. Take action now at 350.org/ppg Watch Serena Mendizabal's video to learn more 👇
Our weekly newsletter about economics, geopolitics, energy, trade, climate change, and development. Cheekily wrote, Trump is BRICS greatest champion and is rapidly unwinding US hegemony buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...
🌍Kuda Manjonjo, Just Transition Advisor @powershiftafrica.bsky.social is with the CAN team at Africa Climate Week in Addis. Kuda explains why civil society is using this space to push for the Belem Action Mechanism - for a just, equitable transition. ✊ #JustTransition #ClimateWeek2025
Shady Khalil @oilchange.bsky.social at UN #JustTransition +Energy Dialogue in Addis: “At COP28 we set the direction. Now the task is to make the transition just & equitable - with tech transfer, grant-based finance, debt cancellation & real energy access. COP30 must deliver.”
My new op-ed: in which I ask, can we forge a Bandung moment for climate? www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-chan...
If you want to support flight attendants standing up for their rights, here's information about solidarity actions across Canada: cupe.ca/rallies
The polycrisis crew @70sbachchan.bsky.social @katemac.bsky.social is always on the money 🎯 Taco is dead, long live Empanada: "Everyone Makes Promises And Never Actually Does Anything" buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...
"If recognizing a Palestinian state proves to be a barrier in trade negotiations with the US, should Canada reverse that decision?" No, Recognize Palestine: 63% Yes, Reverse The Decision: 20% Unsure: 17% Angus Reid / Aug 1, 2025 / n=1333 / Online
🚨 BREAKING: New report reveals hundreds of weapons shipments from Canada to Israel. In 2024, then Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly claimed that Canada had stopped all arms transfers to Gaza. But the facts say otherwise.
L’Union européenne était la seule à pouvoir résister au racket de Trump. Elle a choisi le déshonneur. www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...
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#climateflation graphic of the day, via @financialtimes.com
I wonder if leaders will ever admit that smearing all protests to stop the genocide actually contributed to the genocide. Will there ever be that level of self reflection and honesty or are we just going to get fake surprise like this after mass death.
Watching @mark-carney.bsky.social - Canada must be next.
🌍 Join us July 28, 13:30 CEST for a global call to action on peace, disarmament & justice. With @ituc.bsky.social @greenpeace.org @oxfaminternational.bsky.social @350.org @nuclearban.bsky.social @intpeacebureau.bsky.social 💬 Defend democracy. Challenge inequality. Build peace. 🔗 bit.ly/4lBGPu7
Today, the ICJ has confirmed what Pacific peoples have carried in story and struggle for generations. States and corporations have binding obligations to cut emissions, protect human rights guided by the principle of intergenerational equity, and repair the harm already done. More ➡️ bit.ly/4lIYYWN
👏 The world's highest court has ruled that states have legal duties to act on climate change and that inaction violates human rights. A huge victory for the planet, for the future, and led by the Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change. #ClimateICJAO #ClimateJustice
🔥 ⚖️ 🌐HAPPENING NOW: Historic #ClimateJustice Ruling being delivered by the 🇺🇳 🧑⚖️ International Court of Justice. 🚨This ruling could signal a new dawn for climate law & accountability 📝 🧵 Live thread below with context, summary & analysis 👇 #ClimateJusticeAO #AOLetsGo
Communities across the country are mobilizing on September 20th to demand that Prime Minister Carney and Canada’s governments pick a side: injustice, violence, & climate destruction—or a just & safe future for all of us. Sign up to join a #DrawTheLine action near you: drawtheline.world
I’m in New York for UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ special address on climate. He has a hopeful story amidst the chaos and loss of climate disaster. Stick with me to follow his speech, and check out the report his comments are based on! www.un.org/en/climatech...
As Indigenous nations meet with Carney today over his major projects plan, no list of projects has been made public. But after speaking with government sources we're got the likely front-runners. Here they are, spanning LNG, power grids & port upgrades. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/17/a...
Yep, you heard that right... Republican lawmakers are complaining that Canada is ruining their summer. Instead of blaming arson and poor forest management, let's address the elephant in the room: the FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY. Let's hold them accountable >> act.gp/4lZqEGQ
A most Canadian moment
I see we are having a/c discourse today my friends, respectfully, this is 101 level climate discourse staying cool saves lives and you do not need to feel guilty about it. promise. no one benefits from your a/c guilt, least of all the planet also heat pumps that both heat and cool are so great
Appeasement doesn’t work. We need to get our elbows up again and fight back against Trump’s attacks. #canlab #cdnpoli canadianlabour.ca/statement-fr...
The US Digital Services Tax concession was so worth it
All countries, EU and non, should recognise there’s no ‘deals’ with Trump; there’s only the continued threat of new and unpredictable tariffs. It would be nice if blocs and countries would coordinate to respond with counter tariffs on the US equal to the maximum tariff imposed on each of them.
🚨Trump shut down a federal website on climate change in the SAME WEEK climate-fuelled floods killed at least 120 people in Texas. His anti-environment agenda is funded by the fossil fuel industry It’s time to make polluters pay for loss and damage. Join the #PollutersPayPact today 👉🏽 act.gp/3FccTES
We are in new territory with Trump’s latest trade letter, threatening a 50% tariff on imports from Brazil starting Aug. 1 —The US runs a rare trade surplus with Brazil, so there’s no deficit to fix —Trump says these duties are explicitly over political concerns, not economic ones
The actual bird nerds have long since spoken on this! The Audubon Society supports wind power as a clear net positive for bird populations and biodiversity - w/ targeted protections for a few highly threatened species in a few sensitive geographies (e.g. CA Condors).
But while hawks frame BRICS as trying to overthrow global order, this year's summit is in many ways a strong defense of multilateralism. In the communique, there's strong commitment to the WTO, UNFCCC/Paris Agreement, IMF, and the UN (4/8)
Western coverage of the BRICS Summit has alternatively framed the group as insurgents determined to overthrow the world order or a disorganized, incoherent group bound to accomplish nothing. A closer look at what happened at the Summit reveals a much more nuanced picture (1/8)
Mark Carney’s decision to rescind Canada’s digital services tax is a cowardly move that shows Trump he can be pressured into making trade concessions. It also shows how much Carney is willing to give into corporate demands, and particular those of the tech industry.
(the G7 did not have a communiqué, but climate wasn't even present in the various statements like the Critical Minerals Action Plan and the Kananaskis Wildfire Charter)
Lots to unpack about the Rio #BRICS Summit, but noteworthy how much more this Leaders' Declaration had to say regarding the importance of combating climate change and upholding multilateralism to do so than the #g7 (which literally didn't even utter the word climate) brics.br/en/documents...
BRICS under Brazil's leadership is going green.: -Energy transition investment surge in China,Brazil,India, UAE,S Africa,Indonesia(none in russia) -1st joint statement on climate finance in road to COP30 -Sovereignty now includes green energy 🧵 on our report www.netzeropolicylab.com/brics-going-...
NEW – Chart: Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ blows US emissions goal by 7bn tonnes | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Ho Woo Nam Read here: buff.ly/l700teP
📣 100+ groups are urging PM Mark Carney to build an electricity grid powered by #renewables, not fossil fuels. Updating Canada's grid can: ✅ Bring cheaper, more secure power ✅ Bring good jobs, better health ✅ Uphold Indigenous & workers’ rights Full release: dsfdn.org/PressRelease...
🌍 “We’re seeing rising inequities, with brolygarchs calling the shots - burning our communities and democracies down. Many are asking whether what’s happening here connects to their realities at all.”
what @toddntucker.com said.
Spending some time in the Netherlands and thoroughly enjoying the Dutch media roasting Mark Rutte nonstop for making Trump a daddy
“ This bill will raise your electricity costs and cook the planet to give tax cuts to the richest people ever.” - Sen Schatz “Trump is jamming through a bill that rips away health care, closes hospitals, raises grocery and utility bills to give tax breaks to billionaires.” - Sen Warren
Statistical Review of World Energy for 2024 is now available. Hidden inside the large spreadsheet is this gem. Note that calling a peak is fraught with problems. Often you don't know peak happened until a few years after. But there are SO many signs pointing to this moment coming!
#SB62 outcome - Climate Action Network response: Civil society’s #JustTransition priorities were officially tabled in the UN climate process in Bonn, thanks to relentless pressure from social movements, workers, and frontline communities. Now to #COP30! climatenetwork.org/2025/06/26/b...
The Senate just passed Bill C-5, the controversial bill to fast-track so-called "national interest" projects. Bill C-5 threatens ⚠️ democratic principles ⚠️ Indigenous rights ⚠️ public participation ⚠️ our environment & climate We will keep speaking up & holding government accountable. ✊ Our react 👇
🧩 “The transition is happening - but it’s piecemeal, slow, chaotic, and violent. That’s why we support new institutional arrangements to break silos, end duplication, and anchor this work in the #ParisAgreement.” #JustTransition #WorkersRights @carobrouillette.bsky.social
Missed the CAN Press Conference? Catch up now for key insights on where #SB62 negotiations stand as Bonn wraps up. 🎥 Watch the full briefing here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSoY... @rebeccathissen.bsky.social @carobrouillette.bsky.social @1teresaanderson.bsky.social
Thrilled to be reunited with the full @canrac.bsky.social international diplomacy team in Bonn for week 2 of #SB62! 🇺🇳 As war and climate collapse accelerate, connecting multilateral climate action with justice and peoples on the ground is more urgent than ever.
📰 ECO is out at #SB62 🔥 War. Genocide. Climate collapse — the same fight for survival. 🤐 Silence reigns inside UNFCCC while the world burns. 💥 Name the systems. End the hypocrisy. Demand reparative justice. ✊🏾 The future belongs to those who dare. 📎https://climatenetwork.org/resource/eco-8-sb62/
🌍 As climate negotiations unfold and COP30 draws near, Just Transition Rising is bringing together: ✊ Workers 🌱 Indigenous leaders 🌸 Feminist economists 🤝 Social movements & grassroots orgs To say: Real climate action is already happening—from the ground up. #JustTransitionRising #COP30
🚫 The Senate is fast-tracking Bill C-5—shortening their review & effectively shutting people out of decisions that affect them. Bill C-5 jeopardizes democratic process, environmental protections, and Indigenous rights. The Senate must send it back to the drawing board. shorturl.at/nXN1u
And why, dear G7 leaders, do you think that "the world has experienced record-breaking wildfires across every forested continent over the past decade"? Maybe a little thing you used to call clim*te ch*ange before it became the crisis that dare not speak its name? www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...
Rester silencieux n’est pas une option ❌ Gaza est en train d’être effacée sous nos yeux. Faites-vous entendre. #MaVoixPourLaPalestine #Gaza #Palestine
“This summit will be a test: which leaders are still committed to advancing climate cooperation and human rights, even as the U.S. sprints backwards? And what kind of leadership is Canada really showing to the world?" @carobrouillette.bsky.social Read our members' expectations for the G7 summit 👇
v good thread on disappointing centrist 'climate heroes'
#goodclimatenews alert 🔔 We need more Indigenous owned, renewable projects like this 102 megawatt wind farm in Gaspesie. 🧵
National unity – as conceived by Big Oil – isn’t what we need. As climate fires rage on, national unity is no excuse for more pipeline insanity. #climate #cdnpoli www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
From @tanyatalaga.bsky.social: 2 pieces of legislation, 1 fed & and 1 prov'l, are being rammed into existence & they threaten to worsen climate change, damage what’s left of a pristine ecosystem that cools this warming planet & push animals into extinction www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Excellent take on the @mark-carney.bsky.social government's first month and how we can't let real and perceived barriers to project-building be used as an excuse to ram reckless development down the throats of Canadians. This is my first bsky post and I can't think of a better intro to the platform.
Working on a new way of visualizing smoky days: Calendar-style charts. These show the number of 'smoke hours' (as defined by Environment Canada) each day in Calgary during the wildfire season in 2023, 2024 & 2025 to date. Thoughts / feedback welcome. Aiming to publish these soon-ish on cbc.ca
The suggestion by the head of OPEC in Calgary yesterday that a peak in international oil demand isn't imminent runs counter to the best evidence. If he doesn't believe IEA forecasts here's another prediction of peak oil by that noted radical, BP www.theguardian.com/business/art...
Yes indeed. This thread 👇
Some harsh words on Canada PM Carney's first few weeks in office - #climate champ no more?
📣Tomorrow! Join us for a panel discussion co-hosted by the Institute for Peace & Diplomacy ahead of the #G7. 📅 Wednesday, June 11th ⏰ 1pm ET / 10am PT Register now! shorturl.at/zqWQ7
That would be a tragedy, and we should all be expecting Canada’s Prime Minister to do better. fin
What it should not do, is leave our collective destiny to markets or worse, let the powerful fossil lobby bamboozle us all once again, this time under the cover of the valid frustrations Canadians are feeling about the many ways public institutions are not meeting our needs right now.
To be coherent with that vision it should be picking winners in the energy sector, and be actively shaping those markets through procurement, legislation, investments, and yes, nation-building projects of its own volition— if and only if those are compatible with those objectives and vision.
The federal government, based on economic, social, and environmental objectives, should have a vision of the future.
That’s why saying we’ll become a « clean and conventional energy superpower » is not only misaligned with climate science. It’s lazy, ineffective and inefficient.
We’re also not inviting focus, both at the institutional and discursive level. The key to achieving objectives is not rocket science, it’s prioritization– that is true for any organization. It is especially true for an organization with the size and complexity of Canada’s federal government.
Just a couple ideas: green steel, geothermal, offshore wind, weather-resilient housing efficiency, a fully Canadian-manufactured affordable EV sedan, professional services like education…
…but also bc while we’re spending our limited political bandwidth and resources on dangerous pipelines to nowhere, we’re not discussing and investing in high-tech, high value, good jobs sectors where we could build a made-in-Canada edge. Where we could attract investments & talent leaving the US.
And that at a macroeconomy level, he would understand the cost of continuing to entrench the Canadian economy in low-added value resource extraction. And not only because global demand for oil and gas is not growing…
That he would not double down on the wild and costly fantasy that uber expensive technologies that have yet to demonstrate any effectiveness at scale will make oil and gas « decarbonized » — while truly carbon-free Canadian energy powered by the sun and wind alr exists and is ready to be harnessed.
Perhaps mistakenly, the expectation for Carney– who knows a thing or two about the financial risks of overexposure to fossil fuels– was that he would not fall for the « a pipeline is the response to every single crisis Canada has ever seen » refrain.
That, at the core, is what Bill C-5 proposes, and what those rumours about the cap on oil and gas pollution regs being scrapped tell us.
In this case, emergency powers to circumvent Indigenous rights and sovereignty as well as environmental regulations, all of this to build infrastructure that belongs to another era and won’t be viable without a LOT of taxpayer support.
Once again, à la Friedman, corporate lobbyists have successfully seized a crisis to push for the things they want.
But change in the form of austerity, tax cuts and massive deregulation don’t help governments work better to build and create the things we need to resolve those crises (it won’t). It’s just a poorly disguised neoliberal agenda.
Answering those q's require governments (across jurisdictions) to work better, and together. That will require changes in institutions, as well as new ones.
How do we connect Cdns to renewable power from Coast to Coast to Coast? How do we reduce our dependence on US markets? How do we build lots of affordable housing, and fast? How do we accelerate growth in high-added value sectors that will boost high quality jobs and position Canada in the long-term?
We also know where these ideas are coming from. Federal MinO staffers, and some provincial, are reading and acting as if they are haunted by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s Abundance, who ask some good questions, some that apply to our national context.
We need government to be identifying and tackling the barriers preventing us from meeting the massive challenges before us. So Carney’s instinct towards institutional reform in response is correct.
Canadians are faced with aggressive tariffs from our largest trading partner, a housing shortage, a dismal infrastructure gap for Indigenous communities and once again, our country is either on fire or covered in smoke because of fossil-fuelled climate change.
Prime Minister Carney has rightfully identified that to face the pressing crises before Canada and the world, we are going to have to build and innovate more— a lot more.
Last week gov tabled an Act to enact the Free Trade and Labour Mobility in Canada Act and the Building Canada Act, which lumps a bunch of things together, including some very bad ones. In parallel, there are rumours of the oil and gas emissions cap regulations being scrapped.
Right problem, terribly wrong solutions. A thread/rant on an excessively disappointing first month of 🇨🇦 Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social's government. 🧵 #cdnpoli
Am I the only one who finds it slightly galling that premiers are pitching major projects to an open-eared prime minister right now -- including pipelines -- as a province burns around them and people are forced to evacuate????? As a result of wildfires which are exacerbated by climate change???
As a new Parliamentary session begins, it's time for PM Carney to pick a lane. 🛣️ Will he continue subsidizing and expanding fossil fuels, or steer Canada toward a clean, independent & resilient energy future? Read the op-ed by our Executive Director @carobrouillette.bsky.social 👇
Today's Speech from the Throne strongly emphasized Canadian sovereignty. Yet PM @mark-carney.bsky.social missed an opportunity to clarify the energy future he envisions. Fighting climate change and becoming a renewables superpower or doubling down on volatile fossil fuels? We can't do both. #cdnpoli
Note to pipeline / oil boosters in Canada: Don't count on selling the oil China is no longer buying to India.
Yesterday in Major's Hill Park, beside the Parliament buildings, volunteers & organizers sent a 95-metre message to the Prime Minister. 🔥 It's time for @mark-carney.bsky.social to pick a path—pipelines, or climate action? Learn more at CarneyPickAPath.ca.
"National climate groups stage 95-metre message to PM Carney ahead of Throne speech—Pick a path: pipelines or climate action?" Very cool action by these very cool people.📣 Plus a #solar concert? You love to see it. #Climate #cdnpoli #renewables climateactionnetwork.ca/national-cli...
Feds bought & built TMX. Complain about the cost but it’s operating. They delivered. This was supposed to be a bargain. Tidewater in exchange for meaningful reductions in GHGs. Has the oil industry delivered there? That’s the starting point for discussions about further pipelines. #ableg #cdnpoli
old enough to remember the debates about whether or not Israel is properly understood as a colonial state
It's always been part of the national vision. The barriers are still there, waiting to be overcome. But the benefits---and urgency---have grown. Forget America; it's time to build the east-west power grid. By me, in Macleans today: macleans.ca/economy/forg...
UN Special Rapporteurs. "Escalating atrocities in Gaza present an urgent moral crossroads and States must act now to end the violence or bear witness to the annihilation of the Palestinian population in Gaza."