Robb Barnes 🇨🇦
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Climate action ⚡️ Health ⚕️ Plant-based food 🌱 Cities 🏙️ “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
Ottawa, Ontario
Joined October 2022
Now for some good news. Big congrats to @mayoroliviachow.ca and Toronto City Council for moving forward on landmark rules to protect Torontonians from extreme heat. https://t.co/qt9icahlZY
nationalobserver.com
Mayor Olivia Chow has requested the drafting of a new bylaw that would require landlords to keep rental units cool in the city's increasingly hot summers, just as heat is required in the winter.
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Great piece by Steven Guilbeault. This isn't Canada's first 'grand bargain' with Alberta. The last one left Canadians on the hook while Alberta moved backwards on emissions. Let's not do this again. https://t.co/qos2WnKLYa
thestar.com
Canada is giving up too much for the sake of this grand bargain.
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Here's the big lie from Canada's oil and gas industry: that it's a massive source of jobs. Don't buy it. Fossil fuel employment has fallen to less than 1% of the work force, while growth in global energy jobs continues to surge. https://t.co/250ryiVhXU
theenergymix.com
Fossil fuel employment has fallen to less than 1% of the Canadian work force, while growth in global energy jobs outpaced the wider economy for the third year in a row, according to two reports...
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The Ottawa-Alberta MoU delays Alberta’s methane obligations by 5 years. We’ve crunched the numbers: it means 1.9M more tonnes of methane in the atmosphere — roughly half the annual pollution from all cars in Canada. ➡️ https://t.co/pZydmbkpWA
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Each and every fresh snow reveals how much we’ve over-designed our streets and roads for cars, making them faster and more dangerous, and how much space we could reclaim for people and public life. We call them sneckdowns. GIF via @otucis #sneckdown
https://t.co/gJERGg9ZA1
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Like other cities across Canada, Toronto is experiencing a surge in extreme heat due to climate change. The faster we can move on maximum temperature bylaws, the more lives we can protect. https://t.co/5iWn1ujkHu
thestar.com
After a severe heat wave last June exposed what Mayor Olivia Chow called “serious gaps” in the city’s heat relief strategy, council directed staff to report back with improvements.
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Did Mark Carney give away the Liberals’ advantage on climate change? Yes. https://t.co/0Irr5W5uk5
thestar.com
The prime minister put his party's credibility on environmental issues at risk when he signed an energy deal with Alberta, Althia Raj writes.
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Pretty crazy how much clean energy China is building.
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So many people in the replies seem remarkably upset about a simple statement of fact. 🤷♂️
2025 is expected to conclude as the 3rd warmest year to have been directly measured. This would place 2025 behind only the El Niño boosted record warmth in 2023 and 2024, and still modestly above the long-term trend.
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Keep your eye on this one, and keep your eye on the map - three g’s - geography, geology, and greed. And who’s the ham in this sandwich ?
The United States wants to meet with Greenland 🇬🇱 – without Denmark 🇩🇰 The United States has attempted to arrange a high-level political meeting with representatives from Greenland without involving Denmark. According to the Danish newspaper Politiken, which has spoken to
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Car-dependent suburban sprawl is the most publicly expensive, publicly subsidized, and publicly consequential form of human habitation in human history. #SuburbanSprawl #CarDependency
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The #COP process is a lot of things - slow, frustrating, inequitable and inordinately complex. But it’s also vital. Check this out.👇 The world we are leaving our children would be radically different without the Paris Agreement.
Our update to our NDC Synthesis Report shows: The emissions curve is being bent downwards. Global emissions are projected to fall by 12% in 2035 (compared to 2019 levels) based on new NDCs. My letter to Parties: https://t.co/2xuwfsX7fF
#COP30
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What are Carney’s value(s)? At this late stage of #COP30, Canada seems all about oil and gas announcements at home. Great piece from CAPE’s Dr. Joe Vipond. https://t.co/b7f0bBvYAQ
nationalobserver.com
Canada arrived at COP30 with empty hands, expressly moving backwards on almost every climate policy we’ve put in place since Paris.
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It’s almost like something dramatically changed after the Industrial Revolution! (figure via Ed Hawkins)
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This is the definition of tone deaf policy in the midst of #COP30. Canada, the world is watching. They don’t like what they’re seeing right now. https://t.co/cgEWyKUa9U
theglobeandmail.com
Privy Council Clerk Sabia playing key role in brokering accord that would involve tanker ban exemption
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This could be an Onion headline if it weren’t entirely true:
cnn.com
When the FBI director came back from Asia touting a major win for the administration’s drug crackdown last week, his victory lap was cut short by yet another development in the Jeffrey Epstein saga.
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Bravo Québec! This is the kind of major project we need to see more of in Canada 🇨🇦 At #COP30, we’ve heard crickets from the federal government on new climate commitments. Good to see la belle province picking up some of the slack. https://t.co/U6vbltMg3L
cbc.ca
The Quebec government announced it is continuing the expansion of the province's wind energy sector and investing up to $4.5 billion in a wind power project in the Lower St. Lawrence region.
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Saskatchewan, please take note. Canada agreed to phase out coal a while back, but Sask is doubling down on coal use while the rest of the world surges ahead. Let’s make the jump to clean electricity now.
There was a hugely important announcement today at COP30: South Korea joined the Powering Past Coal Alliance, and in doing so, announced it will not build any new coal plants and will shut down 40 existing plants by 2040. As the country with the 7th largest coal fleet, this is a
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Doctors dancing with giant lungs at #COP30. What more do you need? Of course, there is a point: the Amazon, the very lungs of the world, hang in the balance as negotiators discuss the future of climate and health. https://t.co/qHy2xob0sq
apnews.com
A group of Canadian doctors danced to hip-hop at the U.N. climate talks in Brazil, calling for a global phase-out of fossil fuels.
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