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Quebec finally legally protected against the fossil fuel industry
Québec, Montréal, Gaspé – Citizen, environmental, student and health groups want to highlight one of the most significant environmental victories in Quebec’s history, the adoption of Bill 21, An Act…
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The mental load of zero waste
The mental load is a term for the constant demands which typically fall on women’s shoulders, related to the planning, management and execution of a task or set of tasks.
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5 things you need know about the new IPCC WG2 report
The world’s leading climate scientists just released their latest massive assessment on the impacts of climate change and how and to what extent those impacts can be adapted to.
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Creative disruption to inspire and hack!
Find a bank branch near you and plaster the neighbourhood with stickers & posters calling on them to stop funding destructive fossil fuel projects!
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The coalition Sortons la Caisse du carbone publishes its 5th analysis of the CDPQ’s Carbon 50 Index and points out the risks associated with gas
As the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec prepares to release its annual results, the Sortons la Caisse du carbone coalition is releasing for the fifth year in a row its analysis of the stock market performance of the CDPQ's top 50 oil and gas investments (n.b. report available in French only) again showing…
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JOIN THE DAY OF ACTION: Tell Fossil Banks to stop funding fossil fuels!
Fires. Floods. Heatwaves. Indigenous rights violations. All brought to you by RBC, TD, Scotiabank, BMO and CIBC. TAKE ACTION: Tell Canada's fossil banks to STOP funding fossil fuels, RESPECT Indigenous rights.
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NEW COP26 DRAFT DECISION TEXT
“This draft deal is not a plan to solve the climate crisis, it’s an agreement that we’ll all cross our fingers and hope for the best. It’s a polite request that countries maybe, possibly, do more next year. Well that’s not good enough and the negotiators shouldn’t even think about leaving this city until they’ve…
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Greenpeace reaction to Quebec stopping all fossil fuel extraction
In reaction to Quebec’s Premier François Legault announcement to stop all fossil fuel extraction in the province, Patrick Bonin, Climate & Energy campaigner at Greenpeace Canada, said.
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Beneficiaries warn Canada’s largest pensions of legal duty to manage climate-related financial risks
(Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, Montreal) - Letters were delivered today to the boards and executive of Canada’s 10 largest pension fund managers requesting information on how the funds are meeting their legal fiduciary obligations to beneficiaries in the face of a worsening global climate crisis. These pension funds together have nearly $2 trillion in assets under…
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Sortons la Caisse du Carbone Coalition welcomes CDPQ’s exit from oil
(Montreal) - The Sortons la Caisse du carbone coalition welcomes the CDPQ’s decision to say goodbye to oil production in its investment portfolio. The announcement comes five years after the launch of a public campaign calling for the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) to get out of fossil fuels, and two years…