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Over 40% of global shipping by volume exists to move fossil fuels from one place to another.
A huge share of the world's maritime infrastructure has been built around a system that is going to change dramatically as renewable energy and electrification displace fossil fuels.
Did you know? The air inside homes with gas stoves has smog levels (NO2) 50-400% higher than air inside homes with electric stoves — often at levels known to cause asthma in kids.
Upcoming webinar on the new scientific findings: 4/8/26. Register now!
www.healthandenvironment.org/che-webinars...
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‼️New polling shows people in BC:
• worry about climate change (78%)
• want the #BCgov to act more (79%)
• want more oversight of FortisBC to shift away from #naturalgas (61%)
Getting gas out of buildings addresses all this.
@stand.earth @dogwoodbc.bsky.social @cape-bc.bsky.social
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Every week, we produce the West Coast Climate Action Network News Round-Up, sharing the latest events, campaigns, reports, actions, reports from member groups, solutions, politics, job vacancies, and more.
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I have done a detailed review of the CleanBC Review, and its 80 recommendations. It’s on WE-CAN’s website here:
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Here's this week's news from the West Coast Climate Action Network: westcoastclimateaction.ca?mailpoet_rou...
#Climate #Ksilisims @dogwoodbc.bsky.social You MUST, MUST, MUST watch this!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt6H...
Ten years ago @mark-carney.bsky.social delivered his famous Tragedy of the Horizon speech.
He warned our 🚨financial systems were underprepared for what was coming🚨– and decisions made by leaders would shape the scale of the financial fallout from the climate crisis.
🎥 @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social
@thegarbagequeen.bsky.social - Would you be interested in including this in your newsletter? ecoplanning.ca/want-better-...
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BC friends, important piece by @iglikaivanova.bsky.social
She writes: BC’s own source revenue—taxes, fees & royalties—has plummeted from 19.2% to 15.4% of GDP over 25 years. This drop represents $16.8 billion in foregone revenues annually."
Tax cuts drive the deficit; progressive tax ⬆️ needed 👇
#MEDIA: Today marks 10 years since PM Carney’s Tragedy of the Horizons speech, yet our financial system remains underprepared for climate risks and continues to favour investments in fossil fuels over clean energy.
Action is urgently needed: environmentaldefence.ca/2025/09/29/p...
He himselef has been trapped by the tragedy of the short-term horizon.
10 years ago, PM Mark Carney delivered his famous Tragedy of the Horizon speech, warning that our financial systems were underprepared for what was to come.
10 years later, very little has changed.
If only someone who understood the financial risks of feeding the climate crisis were in power 👀
Join senior economist @1alexhemingway.bsky.social and practitioner Sarah Ellis in a one-hour webinar to learn how BC’s housing crisis can be brought under control and to hear about on-the-ground efforts to create new non-profit housing.
Register now!
Oct 1, noon PT
bcpolicy.ca/events
Protesters disrupt dinner celebrating Trumps arrival. They did it very well!
From Windsor Castle Guildhall
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Please fill out TransLink's survey by Sep 21 and indicate that you think Hastings and Willingdon should get better transit. movementyvr.ca/bby-heights-...
It’s time for a People’s Power Grid. Publicly-owned clean energy infrastructure that will bring clean, affordable, reliable energy to everyone. Sign the petition now: act.350.org/sign/ppg
✊ From a classroom idea to the world’s highest court.
📬 Want to know how they did it — and what it means for the future of climate action?
It’s all in this week’s WE-CAN newsletter.
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🗳️ Your voice matters — and this week, B.C. is listening.
📬 It’s all inside this week’s WE-CAN newsletter — along with more updates, resources, and climate action tools.
#WECANNewsletter #ClimateAction #DemocracyInAction #BCPolitics #ElectoralReform #CivicEngagement
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Catch all the climate headlines — and how to take action — in the latest WE-CAN newsletter.
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Big Oil wasted no time before lobbying the newly minted Minister of Energy and Natural Resources 👀 - Minister Hodgson took 11 lobby meetings in May
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If you feel like climate action, it starts with connection #bcclimateaction #climate www.youtube.com/shorts/6MTSL...
The day it opens, LNG Canada will become B.C.‘s largest point-source emitter of #GHG, while increased gas production across the entire supply chain will also add to B.C.’s emission totals.
This and other LNG projects guarantee B.C. will fail to meet its legislated emission targets. Marc Lee writes.