Clean energy

Canadians need expert analysis to guide the economic transformation to battle climate crisis. A recent report from the Canada Energy Regulator provides an inadequate blueprint, write Kathryn Harrison, Mark Jaccard, Nicholas Rivers and Angela Carter.

Despite ambitious commitments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, a new report from the non-profit ClimateVoice reveals that 12 of the U.S.’s largest pro-climate companies are obstructing efforts to pass the Build Back Better Act.

They say it sends a disastrous message as the United Kingdom welcomes world leaders, advocates, diplomats and scientists to Glasgow, Scotland, for a United Nations climate conference that starts Oct. 31.

On Thursday afternoon, Canada’s National Observer hosted what deputy managing editor David McKie described as a “kitchen table” discussion on Canada’s path to a net-zero future.

The Canadian Institute for Climate Choices is warning in its publication Sink or Swim, that if these industries and federal and provincial governments don't acknowledge that change is coming and prepare for it, there could be devastating consequences.

The European Union's top official on Wednesday, October 20, 2021, exhorted the 27 member nations to wean themselves off natural gas not only to speed the transition to clean energy but also to make the bloc a more independent player in the world.

The International Energy Agency warned new investment in clean energy was needed to “jolt the energy system onto a new set of rails.”

Want to know what a job looks like for a fossil fuel worker in the net-zero economy? Just ask Luisa Da Silva. As executive director of Iron & Earth, she makes the rubber hit the road. 

Canada’s National Observer asked federal Green Party Leader Annamie Paul about hot-button issues in the upcoming election, and what Canada needs to focus on to tackle the climate crisis.

Decarbonizing oil and gas production while letting market forces determine supply — not dismantling and phasing out — is still Ottawa’s fundamental approach to the national hydrocarbon sector, writes energy and climate journalist Markham Hislop.

Rapidly switching from burning coal and biomass to renewable energy sources is vital if Nova Scotia is to take any meaningful action on climate change, says the Sierra Club’s Atlantic chapter. 

Canada remains steadfast in its commitment to advance nuclear energy and, more specifically, small modular reactors as part of its clean energy transformation, writes Steve Threlfall, general manager of U-Battery.

A threat to "freedom"? How a new study changed minds in the real world.

Efficiency Canada’s career hub manager says energy-efficiency programs are a key job generator for our transition to a clean energy economy.