Mitchell Beer

With climate change emerging as a top issue in national elections coming up Sept. 13, thousands of people converged on Stockholm just over a week ago for one of the biggest climate marches in recent memory.

There’s no likely need for Alberta’s proposed West Coast Pipeline, as the rise of electric vehicles and a faster global energy transition drive down future oil demand and prices at a faster rate than industry and governments may have expected, the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) concludes in an analysis released this morning.

More than 26 million Canadians in more than 930 communities have personally faced the impacts of climate change so far this year, the #ElbowsUp for Climate campaign reports in an analysis released this week.

Donald Trump’s expanding trade war could be a catalyst for Canada to speed up its energy transition, diversify its trade, and reinforce its economic sovere

The science of climate change is dire. Same as it’s ever been, just more so. When the going gets tough, understanding what to do next becomes even more important.

With the federal government kicking off a design competition to revitalize the Prime Minister’s residence at 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa, a local architecture firm is already on record with a concept for a “radical rehabilitation” to make the building a showcase for heritage preservation and “zero-carbon sustainability performance.”

With Nova Scotia getting closer to inviting bids for Canada’s first offshore wind farms, a new poll says nearly three-quarters of Nova Scotians “hold a positive impression of offshore wind energy” and up to a two-thirds majority back the Wind West project—with some concerns still to be addressed.

The federal government is taking criticism for assigning environmental reviews for pipelines, in situ oil sands projects, fossil-powered power plants, transmission lines, and offshore renewable energy projects to an agency that may lack the expertise to assess their impact—as well as some “inside baseball” teasing for a typo in the media release announcing the change.

With every corner of the global market seeing new potential for clean energy development, a group of women working across the Canadian financial sector are actively deploying billions of dollars in capital into climate solutions—even if decarbonization isn’t always the motivation that seals the deal.

With as many as 250 of the world’s top investors converging on Toronto next week for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Canada Investment Summit, news reports say pipelines, nuclear plants, railways, AI data centres, and more will be among the 167 domestic projects on offer.