#Renewables will grow faster than any major energy source in the next decade, according to the world’s #energy watchdog, making the transition away from #fossil fuels “inevitable”, despite a green backlash in the US and parts of Europe

Levels of #carbon dioxide in the atmosphere soared by a record amount in 2024 UN data shows. Scientists are worried that land and ocean “sinks” that remove #CO2 from the air are weakening as a result of global heating, which could form a vicious circle and drive temperatures up even faster.

The world’s #wind and #solar farms have generated more electricity than coal plants for the first time this year, marking a turning point for the global power system, according to research www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Nope, this is not "fake news"... The Energy Department has added “climate change,” “green” and “decarbonization” to its growing “list of words to avoid” at its Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

REVEALED: An in-depth study of 89 multinationals, published in Nature Communications, reveals that companies that purchase #carbon credits do not decarbonize any quicker than those that do not.

Investment in #renewable energy has continued to increase around the world despite moves by Donald Trump’s White House to cancel and derail low-carbon projects.

Only 28 countries have so far submitted #carbon-cutting proposals to the UN, with some of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases – including China and the EU – still to produce their plans. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@carbonick.bsky.social, directeur #conservation & #climat, nous explique ce que la science dit sur l’empreinte carbone des coupes forestières & pourquoi nos #forêts laissées debout sont un meilleur outil que des billots de #bois pour lutter contre la crise climatique www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNb5...

#Climate action being obstructed and delayed by false and misleading information stemming from fossil fuel companies, rightwing politicians and some nation states. The report systematically reviewed 300 studies. www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🌎

Four sources with knowledge of the situation at the EPA’s Region 5 office, which oversees six Midwestern states, told CNN that enforcement officials were informed that “there is a pause on oil and gas enforcement” at staff meetings. www.cnn.com/politics/epa...

Blogue et capsule animée pour expliquer l'importance de la nature face à la crise climatique actuelle. Des arguments de plus pour inciter le Québec à accélérer la cadence pour la création d'aires protégées 🌎 @snapquebec.bsky.social @naturequebec.bsky.social

In North Carolina, the State legislature has blocked cities and towns from protecting trees. With no home rule, we have to comply. They reduced dramatically the jurisdiction of Boone NC because we protected the mountain-sides which surround us. Enlightened Republicans killing us all!

A new study has calculated that increasing vegetation in urban areas by 30 per cent could have prevented more than one third of all global heat-related deaths between 2000 to 2019. In total, 1.16 million lives may have been saved with more greenery during this 20-year period. 🌎

Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts for US science in next fiscal year NASA cut by 24% NIH cut by 40% EPA cut by 55% NSF cut by 56% Analysis from @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com team www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“The science is clear on what needs to change: Stop using fossil fuels, respect and protect nature, use resources sustainably.” “Our societies were made by us, so human-made problems can be unmade. We limit ourselves when we focus only on preventing the worst, rather than striving for the best.” 🌎🧪

Erasing #climate science, one dumb decision at a time... "The move will allow the administration to either skip the congressionally mandated report altogether, or pursue an alternative, potentially far more skeptical take on what is otherwise widely accepted climate science." 🌎🧪

"Every 1% of greenhouse gas emitted since 1990 has caused $502 billion in damage from heat alone, excluding costs from hurricanes, droughts and floods." Top-emitters: Saudi Aramco: $2.05  trillion Gazprom: $2  trillion Chevron: $1.98  trillion ExxonMobil: $1.91 trillion BP: $1.45  trillion 🌎🧪

Projet de loi 97 | La SNAP Québec juge alarmante cette proposition qui interdirait notamment la création d’aires protégées sur une vaste portion du territoire et permettrait la récolte de bois dans des zones de conservation, et ce sans consultations. Lire le communiqué👉 bit.ly/42LSqP0

Le projet de loi 97 est à peine sorti que les réactions sont vives et très cinglantes. Si cette réforme voit le jour dans sa mouture actuelle, on assistera à un recul monumental sur la #biodiversité, les droits #autochtones et la gestion intégrée. Clairement inacceptable. @snapquebec.bsky.social

Important and desperately needed! @theguardian.com is launching a year-long collaborative reporting project that seeks to explore a pivotal but little-known fact about the #climate crisis: the overwhelming majority of the world’s people want their governments to take stronger action. 🌎

This is so wrong. “Unfortunately, all data and services offered under the base contract, including this website, will be unavailable unless and until funding is resumed,” The White House’s Office of Management and Budget has recommended ending funding for the regional climate centers

Cutting down the last standing giants is not only bad for #biodiversity, #climate and people, it is also economically incoherent. Protecting old-growth #forests in the BC interior could generate more than $43 billion over the next century — far more than #logging the land 🌎

Pierre Poilievre said 15,000 people showed up at his Edmonton rally. CBC counted 1,558. Lesson: Inflating crowd numbers is standard political strategy but it only works if you don’t get caught. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The COPEH-Canada course & webinar series on Ecosystem Approaches to Health begins May 8! This year's theme is "Reciprocity, land and health." Available to grad students from all disciplines as well as interested professionals. Learn more: tinyurl.com/5fsb62yj 🧪 @copeh-canada.bsky.social

Découvrez l'équipe d'enseignantes pour notre formation sur les approches écosystémiques de la santé *Sandra Martin Harris, Witsuwit'en Nation et UNBC *Tannis Reynolds, Stellat'en First Nation et UNBC *Cathy Vaillancourt, INRS *Jena Webb, UQAM *Jane Parmley, UofGuelph copeh-canada.org/fr/champs-d-...

Meet our stellar teaching team for the 2025 webinar series & course on Ecosystem approaches to health *Sandra Martin Harris, Witsuwit’en Nation & UNBC *Tannis Reynolds, Stellat’en First Nation & UNBC *Cathy Vaillancourt, INRS *Jena Webb, UQAM *Jane Parmley, UofGuelph copeh-canada.org/en/key-areas...

Bravo à l'Assemblée nationale qui a réitéré son appui au Système de plafonnement et d’échange de droits d’émission de gaz à effet de serre (SPEDE) entre le Québec et la Californie. 🌎

Going backwards: Global #reforestation and forest #restoration efforts are facing a serious setback due to the recent U.S. foreign aid freeze. The sudden halt in funding has left projects around the world scrambling for alternative resources, jeopardizing years of progress 🌎

No one is asking where this mining would take place. Any mining under US law in the Clarion Clipperton Zone would be tantamount to an invasion of Greenland, a gross violation of international law. Discussions at the ISA today made it clear that circumventing UNCLOS would be universally condemned.

A Canadian deep-sea mining firm has revealed it has been negotiating with the Trump administration to bypass a UN treaty and potentially gain authorisation from the US to mine in international waters 🌎

Logging drastically reduces forests capacity to store #carbon. Failing to account for the potentially decreasing ability of #forests to absorb CO₂ could make reaching the Paris agreement targets significantly harder, if not impossible, and much more costly 🌎🧪🌐

Chaque jour au Canada 3 500 terrains de football de forêt sont coupés. Cette empreinte colossale de l’industrie sur les #forêts a un impact significatif sur le #climat: 141 Mt CO2eq en 2023, soit + de carbone que tous les transports routiers, aériens, maritimes du pays 🌎

Empreinte climatique : Les coupes forestières émettent plus de gaz à effet de serre que les transports routiers, aériens, maritimes et ferroviaires combinés au Canada. Il est temps pour le secteur forestier de reconnaître sa participation à la crise climatique 🌎

En cette Journée Internationale des Forêts, face à la menace américaine, nous interpellons le milieu forestier québécois afin d’offrir une sortie aux multiples crises qui frappent la #forêt québécoise, la #biodiversité et les communautés qui en dépendent. Lettre ouverte de @snapquebec.bsky.social 🌎

NEW: As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows and streamers, our analysis found that this expanding media ecosystem is overwhelmingly right-leaning.

“Today marks the most disastrous day in #EPA history. Rolling these rules back is not just a disgrace, it’s a threat to all of us. The agency has fully abdicated its mission to protect Americans’ health and wellbeing." 🌎

Canada’s managed #forest is one of the largest living reservoirs of #carbon on Earth. For centuries it slowly filled, as billions of growing trees pulled CO2 from the air and stored it away in wood and soil. But in the last decades, the flow of CO2 has completely reversed mostly due to logging 🌎🧪🌐

Climate #whiplash is already hitting major cities around the world, bringing deadly swings between extreme wet and dry weather as the #climate crisis intensifies. Data shows some regional trends, with drying hitting Europe, the already-parched Arabian peninsula and much of the US 🌐🌎🧪

The world’s nations convened this week to plan the next major international assessment of climate science—but without the US. Trump’s administration denied officials permission to travel to the meeting and cut off technical support contract for the seventh assessment of the #IPCC 🌎🧪

#Peatlands occupy just 3% of all land, but contain more carbon than all of the world’s forests. However, farmers and miners are draining the peatlands, releasing so much CO2 that if they were a country, they would be the fourth biggest polluter in the world after China, the US and India. 🌎🧪🌐

WAKE UP CALL: More than half the world’s countries have no plans to protect 30% of land and sea for nature, despite committing to a global agreement to do so less than three years ago, new analysis shows 🌎🧪 #biodiversity www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Merci @snapquebec.bsky.social pour ce beau cadeau : un biscuit avec un message écrit par des jeunes pour nous rappeler les véritables priorités ! On ne peut pas abandonner la protection de la biodiversité et de l’environnement, même en période d’instabilité économique.

#GNLQc est un mirage. Aucun promoteur ne voudra relancer ça «En 2023, la conso. de gaz l’Union européenne a été 18% + faible vs la moy.. de 2017 à 2021. Encore + faible en 2024 (janv. à mai, le recul vs 2017-2021 =19%» 👉L’UE vise -90% de GES pour 2040 www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/02/08/g...

"Radical right populists are using misinformation as a tool to destabilise democracies and gain political advantage. The findings underscore the urgent need for policymakers, researchers, and the public to understand and address the intertwined dynamics of misinformation and radical right populism"

In 2021, the Magpie River was granted legal personhood, which bestowed rights upon the #river, including the right to live, respect for its natural cycles, to be protected and preserved, maintain its natural #biodiversity, be free from pollution, and to be restored. www.cbc.ca/documentarie...

False solutions: "it is highly likely that 52% of wind farms supported by Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) would have been built anyway, which means more than 28 million tonnes CO2 were approved incorrectly. Same rate to all CDM projects worldwide could lead to 6.1 billion more tonnes of CO2" 🌎

Quand l'homme le plus riche de la planète s'en prend aux enfants les plus pauvres de la planète... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

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Some areas of the U.S. and Canada are so vulnerable to #climate impacts that they are increasingly uninsurable. A number of major #insurance companies have pulled out of California, Florida and Louisiana, for example, because of their susceptibility to a variety of environmental risks 🌎

Massive #methane leaks: Several oil&gas persistent emission sites identified in North America, including the Permian Basin, which is America's highest producing oil field. The top 10 persistent emitting sources included three coal fields in China and one of the largest coal mining areas in Russia 🌎🧪