Clean energy

Will Alberta’s electricity grid become unreliable as more renewable generating capacity is added? Denmark has already answered this question with an electricity system that uses wind and solar energy to supply 60 per cent of the country’s electricity consumption.

Aggressive Russian bombing in Ukraine increases the world’s greenhouse gas quotient by as much as another whole European country might produce — without any accountability or even discussion at climate talks. 

Protesters highlighted the desert festival’s carbon footprint, but the biggest issue may be Burning Man’s opposition to renewable energy in its own backyard.

The active involvement of many G20 countries in the development of Russian oil and gas projects and related infrastructure poses dire consequences for democracy and peace in the world, writes Svitlana Romanko, founder and director of Razom We Stand.

On the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act, energy transition is clearly ramping up, but political polarization in Canada is creating conditions that threaten to impede progress.

Alberta and Saskatchewan’s longstanding opposition to a national climate policy could be tested if the federal government forces provinces to fall in line to access funding aimed at ushering Canada into a low-carbon economy.

Sierra Club Canada and three community groups want the federal environment minister to order an assessment of NB Power's plan to prep a site on the Bay of Fundy for an experimental small modular reactor.

A record-hot June, followed by a disaster-packed July, has climate scientists “shocked” by just how extreme the extreme weather has been, including some ocean waters feeling like “a hot tub.”

As the director of sustainable communities for the David Suzuki Foundation, Julius Lindsay and his team help grassroots organizations ensure climate solutions advance their well-being. 

A world with more expansion, more fossil fuels and more emissions is exactly what “net zero” is designed to enable, writes climate justice organizer Amy Mann.

Not every federal party treats the need to develop climate action policies with the political reverence it deserves.

As our G7 counterparts charge ahead on industrial decarbonization, Canada must also act ambitiously or risk falling to the back of the pack.

The minister responsible for the Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada has announced the government is giving nearly $6 million for Indigenous communities in British Columbia to develop clean energy projects.

A peer-reviewed paper proposes that the top 21 polluting companies pay $5.4 trillion over 26 years to compensate for climate damages.

The financial support Canada is offering for the clean energy transition is competitive with the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) south of the border, a new report from TD Economics says.