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Jason R. Wang
21 days ago
🚗🔋 TIL that Nepal and Ethiopia are the two countries following Norway the closest in EV adoption. “Ethiopia got sick of importing gasoline and gas-burning cars. In 2024, it became the world’s first country to ban the import of combustion engine vehicles.”
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Cheaper, cleaner — and not available here
Even as we rail in outrage at Donald Trump’s tariffs, the Canadian government has imposed our own punishingly high tariffs on Chinese vehicles — high enough to ensure they are kept out of Canada and t...
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/27/opinion/chinese-evs-tariffs-canada?utm_source=National+Observer&utm_campaign=b63e4b23bf-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_10_25_12_43_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cacd0f141f-da694df71f-276991233
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Seth Klein
28 days ago
In the jargon of climate scientists, the sinks are failing. Or, in lay terms, nature is sick from cleaning up our crap. Great piece here by
@chrishatch.bsky.social
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www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/20/o...
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A great unravelling: carbon soars, nature falters
Last year, the global concentration of carbon dioxide jumped by 3.5 parts per million (ppm) and reached 424 ppm, the biggest jump since modern measurements began in the 1950s. The WMO says the blanket...
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/20/opinion/carbon-emissions-tipping-points
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Seth Klein
4 months ago
In landmark ruling, World Court judges unanimously agree that countries must tackle fossil fuels — both burning & extraction — and that failing to curb climate change compromises human rights. Great summary of last week's ruling by
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www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/28/o...
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The World Court throws f-bombs — and lots of 'em
With its landmark ruling, the International Court of Justice has finally offered its first opinion on questions about climate change, concluding that rich, high-polluting countries have a particular o...
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/28/opinion/world-court-climate-ruling-zero-carbon
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Seth Klein
4 months ago
Recommended read from
@chrishatch.bsky.social
on this year's 🇨🇦 wildfires...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/21/o...
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The 'why' of wildfires
There are 72 countries in the world whose landmass is smaller than the amount of hectares of forest that have burned across Canada this year — and wildfire season isn't over yet.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/21/opinion/zero-carbon-wildfires-climate-change
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Tzeporah Berman
4 months ago
As Europe swelters under lethal heat and children are swept away from their summer camp in a flash flood in Texas that rose 20 feet in 90 minutes, it’s sobering to realize this month that we are closer to 2050 than 2000.
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Halfway to 2050
https://www.nationalobserver.com/newsletters/zero-carbon/2025/07/04/halfway-2050
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Seth Klein
4 months ago
Important read from
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: "25 years to rewire our energy systems, reimagine our cities, and restructure our relationship with the planet. The scale of the transformation now required is staggering, but so is the cost of delay."
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Halfway to 2050, and far from where we need to be
This halfway point to 2050 offers a stark reckoning. We've burned through a quarter century in what feels like a blink. Now, we’re left with the same span in which we had vowed to accomplish what may ...
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/07/opinion/halfway-2050-far-where-we-need-be
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Seth Klein
5 months ago
Decarbonized oil doublespeak may not be new but it was jarring coming from the mouth of Prime Minister Mark Carney, who has an undeniable grasp of the impacts of hydrocarbons.
@chrishatch.bsky.social
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www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/09/o...
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There is no such thing as "decarbonized oil"
The decarbonized doublespeak may not be new but it was jarring coming from the mouth of our new PM, who has an undeniable grasp of the impacts of hydrocarbons but nevertheless talked about “decarboniz...
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/09/opinion/chris-hatch-decarbonized-oil
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Linda Solomon Wood
8 months ago
A ray of British sunshine pierces the climate doom from
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www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/17/o...
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A ray of British sunshine pierces the climate doom
The U.K.’s planet-heating emissions are now the lowest since 1872. That’s not a typo — we’re looking back to a time when Queen Victoria was on the throne, in the place where coal furnaces had fired th...
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/17/opinion/british-climate-emissions-reduction-coal
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Carbon Conversations
9 months ago
He's leading in the leadership race and could be Canada's next PM. Take five minutes to read "Mark Carney's Climate Cred", another excellent article by
@chrishatch.bsky.social
of the
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#climatecrisis
#energytransition
#fossilfuels
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Tzeporah Berman
9 months ago
Should we even bother talking about climate change? The answer is yes. (Don’t let the deniers take you off message, people are motivated to protect what they love)
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digs into the research.
www.nationalobserver.com/newsletters/...
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Should we even bother talking about climate change?
https://www.nationalobserver.com/newsletters/zero-carbon/2025/02/14/should-we-even-bother-talking-about-climate-change
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Canada's National Observer
11 months ago
Climate fiction isn't always dark or dystopian; some of it offers solutions. Some is even fun. For whatever kind of reader,
@chrishatch.bsky.social
has aggregated the best cli-fi books
www.nationalobserver.com/2024/12/06/o...
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The best climate fiction for readers coming to terms with climate fact
There’s something strangely reassuring about the genre, even when it’s grim. Such insightful minds struggling with futures that are already arrived but largely invisible; baked in but beyond polite co...
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/12/06/opinion/best-climate-fiction-readers-coming-terms-climate-fact
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Seth Klein
12 months ago
This weekend's Zero Carbon column by
@chrishatch.bsky.social
offers one of the clearest explanations for why global climate financing isn't charity, but rather reparations, that I've read. Highly recommended!
www.nationalobserver.com/newsletters/...
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Climate reparations aren't charity, they're a responsibility
https://www.nationalobserver.com/newsletters/zero-carbon/2024/11/29/climate-reparations-arent-charity-theyre-responsibility
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