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10 Questions For A Wartime Davos
Davos – This will be my 9th time to Davos, and I don’t remember so much international anxiety.
Circus in the Sand: COP28 And Climate’s Midlife Crisis
The business COP. The oil COP. The pragmatic COP. The sellout COP. There were almost as many labels thrown at COP28 as there were people (100,000) at…
John’s COP28 Diary: Fixing Climate Finance & The Abate Debate
You might expect that in Dubai, with its splashy display of wealth and ambition at every turn. But at the big UN climate conference that’s underway…
John Stackhouse: Good Cap, Bad Cap?
Good Cap, Bad Cap? It’s here at last—but not there yet. The federal government unveiled its much hyped (and to some, much feared) oil and gas…
John Stackhouse: Charting The Fall Of Climate In Fiscal Update
If there were any doubts how far climate has fallen down Santa’s wish list for the Trudeau government, read Chrystia Freeland’s Fall Economic…
John Stackhouse: Canada’s New Season Of Climate Discontent
The weather in Ottawa turned gnarly this week, as did the politics around Net Zero. Is this the winter of our climate discontent?
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