NEW | Solar power surge in 2025 stalls rise in fossil electricity worldwide ⚡📈
Clean power growth outpaced global electricity demand last year – with solar alone supplying THREE-QUARTERS of the increase in demand ☀️
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PRESS RELEASE Governments meeting at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, including Türkiye as this year’s UN climate talks president, must use the global disruption in fossil fuel supplies from the war on Iran as an accelerator for a just transition away from fossil fuels.
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Canada will become a "clean energy superpower": Who said it first?
a) Mark Carney
b) Tim Hodgson
c) Stephen Harper
Answer: www.canada.ca/en/news/arch...
A Soviet propaganda poster featuring Lenin pointing angrily into the distance. It has been altered. Lenin now has Trump's hair and his skin in orange. The hammer/sickle logo behind him has been replaced with a cross.
There aren't a lot of things I agree with Mark Carney about, but there's one area where he and I are in *total* accord: the old, US-dominated, "rules-based international order" was total bullshit:
www.weforum.org/stories/2026...
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Fossil fuels have long been used as tools of power and coercion by authoritarian regimes.
Renewable energy is a peace, security and cost of living solution as well as a climate solution.
A just transition is inevitable- in fact it’s already happening. Now is the moment to fast track it.
"fossil fuels aren’t just bad for the planet’s health. They are geopolitically fragile.
By contrast, the sun doesn’t flow through contested waterways. The wind can’t be sanctioned. Renewables aren’t just clean – they’re sovereign."
www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe...
This is such a moral and (longer-term) economic failure.
Honored to join Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chief Na’Moks and Gwii Lok’im Gibuu to deliver their demands to not fund LNG Canada Phase 2 & Ksi Lisims LNG.
Also the powerful Eve Saint, Janelle Lapointe Samantha Green, Dani Michie.
@davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social
@cape-acme.bsky.social
@stand.earth
I made charts! bsky.app/profile/clim...
Oil sands hit an all-time high of 92 MT (more than Quebec and New Brunswick combined, or BC + MB +NS)
Electricity was the golden child, but progress there has stalled and emissions could rise rapidly thanks to gas-fired AI data centres (Alberta AI centres are exempted from Clean Electricity Regulation under the fed-AB pipeline MOU)
Oil and gas emissions are rising again, after a fall triggered by the federal methane regulation (a new methane regulation is being negotiated to re-start the reductions, but AB is trying to pull a fast one)
Nerd alert: Canada's GHG Inventory for 2024 just released. It shows that progress has stalled (emissions down 0.3% from 2023 levels).
www.canada.ca/en/environme...
Cold Lake FN Chief Jacko on 5300 barrels of toxic waste spilled on his nation's land: “The environment’s losing. Everybody’s thinking about money. One day, oil is going to leave. Is the land going to be as pristine as it once was? What is the legacy we’re leaving behind?”
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Hodgson's (and by extension Mark Carney's) "values-based pragmatism" boils down to: if someone wants to buy it, we have to dig it up and sell it to them.
McKinsey trained them well....
Hodgson's "leaps forward" in environmental performance of upstream oil and gas (largest single source of climate-harming pollution in Canada) look a lot more like stumbles (date from Environment Canada's most recent GHG Inventory)
More from our federal Energy Minister: “What's very clear to me today is there is a very large percentage of the human population that doesn't want to make the trade off of economic growth for lower carbon.”
“If you have the luxury of leaving in the ground, God bless you,” Hodgson says. But he makes clear that’s a choice few, if any, can afford. Certainly not Canada under his watch. “I don't think that's how we're going to move forward in the world.”
Hodgson: “If that’s what you are blessed with as a resource [oil] and you are making those kinds of leap forwards from environmental perspective, haven’t you earned the right to produce? Because people want to buy it.”
This Bloomberg interview with @natural-resources.canada.ca Minister Tim Hodgson on how oil drilling is now "woke" is remarkable for the utter disdain it shows for climate action www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
From my @greenpeaceeastasia.bsky.social colleague in Beijing: "One clear lesson we should see clearly in the oil price shocks... is that dependence on limited, contested, combustible & corrupting fossil fuels puts us at risk no matter how much we stockpile." www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
Nationally, polls show that the majority of voters want their elected officials to address the climate and cost of living crises together—and they believe it is possible
Centrists tell us we have to choose between economic populism and climate ambition. They're wrong. With *green economic populism* we can tackle climate and the cost-of-living crises together.
Today @cplusc.bsky.social is launching a new research and policy agenda to move us forward. 🧵
"If oil prices remain at current levels for the next 12 months, the Canadian oil industry is on track to make $90B in profits...$60B more than it would have earned without the war.
...Applying [a] 15% rate on the excess profits of the oil industry could generate $9B over the next 12 months."
🌐 NEW | Analysis: Global fossil power generation fell in March after Hormuz closure due to solar & wind growth
⚠️ Fall in gas-fired generation offset by large increases in solar & wind power, not coal
w/CREA's @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social
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Less facetiously, Canada is in a dangerous place right now. We're scared of the US, but we're also tearing apart our climate policies & leaning into petrostate reflexes, and this recent rush of oil revenue will bolster this. By far the best & most feasible thing we could do right is pull a Norway...
... that will makes us better prepared to withstand future shocks. The wind and the sun can’t get stuck in the Strait of Hormuz."
Just sent this to your various colleagues: "Let’s not forget who is making a fortune off this war. Carney should tax back the oil companies’ super-profits to pay for more supports for people to deal with the cost-of-living crisis, as well as the clean energy solutions...
So far this government has:
- removed EV mandates (and moreover paused rebates to stall the market)
- removed carbon tax
- removed low carbon electricity policy
- removed gasoline tax
- removed oil and gas cap
when does the Canadian Federal government do climate policy?
France 🇫🇷 doubles electrification support to €10bn/year through 2030 — EVs, heat pumps, industry.
The reason?
The Strait of Hormuz crisis making fossil fuel dependence impossible to ignore.
Geopolitical shocks don’t just raise prices. They change what’s politically possible.
Thank you Jordan Omstead (not on Bluesky?) & @cdnpress.bsky.social for including this clear description of links between fossil fuels, climate change and worsening wildfires. Should be in every story on the topic .
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
