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FoodSpring 2024
Will alternative seafood sink or swim?

Canadian faux fish and seafood startups are hoping to serve ocean-friendly food for a growing planet

FoodSpring 2024
We need to talk about meat

EDITORIAL | Despite efforts to make it sound sustainable, meat is roasting the planet. A plant-based revolution is taking root.

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FoodSpring 2024
Knight Bites: The true cost of meat

From billions in subsidies to millions of lives lost, here are six ways people and the planet pay a price for the livestock industry

FoodSpring 2024
Is it time for a just transition in the meatpacking industry?

More than 100 years after Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle exposed the horrors of working in a slaughterhouse, workers are still clamouring for more humane conditions

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ClimateSpring 2024
Is seaweed farming boom a climate solution or ecological threat?

As kelp farms spread across North America, experts question whether their climate benefits are worth the potential risks

EnergySpring 2024
How Newfoundland is becoming a green hydrogen hotbed

Project Nujio’qonik is slated to transform the craggy coast into Canada’s first commercial wind-to-hydrogen hub, but not everyone is stoked

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2024 Climate Dollars
The federal government is more than $14 billion behind on climate funding

Our inaugural Climate Dollars report shows there has been a 30% shortfall between what the government has committed to spending on climate and what it has actually invested over last decade

Finance
Four ways Canadian banks can actually deliver on their climate promises

Upcoming shareholder proposal vote asks TD to spell out their vague net-zero plans, but it’s not the only bank that needs a credible climate transition plan

Fossil fuel subsidies cost more than carbon tax
Energy
Fossil fuel subsidies are costing Canadian taxpayers way more than the carbon tax

Despite calls for reform, federal and provincial governments use $6 billion in taxpayer dollars to subsidize fossil fuel companies annually. And unlike the federal carbon tax, Canadians don’t get a rebate.

Climate
57 producers generated 80% of fossil emissions since Paris Agreement

New InfluenceMap report finds most companies produced more fossil fuels in the seven years after the Paris Agreement than in the seven years before

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Energy
U.S. sees surge in renewable energy over last decade

Renewables now account for 22% of U.S. electricity, thanks in part to growth in solar and wind. Can the Inflation Reduction Act help deliver a 100% clean grid?

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