Climate

President Joe Biden looks to speed up heat safety regulations that could protect 36 million workers after Texas and Florida block cities from enacting their own protections

Climate

More than 60% of anti-green Conservative MPs lost seats in U.K. election

Adam Barnett and Joey Grostern

Advocates welcomed the departure of lawmakers who opposed strong climate policy in Labour's landslide election

Climate

Could the video game industry be key to levelling up on climate action?

Alex Robinson

New research shows that video game players are more likely to engage in collective action on global warming, while industry tries to tackle emissions

Climate | Summer 2024

Knight Bites: Six ways cities are trying to keep their cool in record-breaking heat waves

CK Staff

The planet has been living through record-smashing heat, and few places are as treacherous as concrete-laden cities. Here's how cities from Paris to Abu Dhabi are coping.

Climate | Summer 2024

Zeros: Insurers are passing climate crisis costs on to homeowners while financing new fossil fuel projects

Rick Spence

Insure Our Future wants insurance companies to stop underwriting new fossil fuel projects – including LNG export terminals – and make polluters pay for climate disasters rather than hiking rates for homeowners

Climate | Summer 2024

How a group of Swiss seniors won a landmark climate case in international court

Rick Spence

Heat-related deaths have spiked by roughly 30% in Europe over the last two decades. A group of older Swiss women successfully argued their government wasn't doing enough to protect them.

Climate

Canada’s new greenwashing ban rattles fossil fuel industry

Natalie Alcoba

Bill C-59 has barred companies from making claims they can’t back up, but what kind of difference will it make?

Climate | Summer 2024

Can a wave of chief heat officers help cool a melting planet?

John Lorinc

In the ‘era of global boiling,’ cities and states are turning to heat czars to craft climate responses that mitigate the impact of extreme heat

Climate | Summer 2024

How the Global South told the North to stop lecturing it on climate

Natalie Alcoba

Voices from the Global South are pushing back against the finger-wagging ‘hypocrisy’ of a Global North that keeps burning fossil fuels

Creative defiance

These 50 Canadian corporations are carving out a more sustainable future

Europe is setting the standard for sustainable business – and earning the rewards