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Canada Investment Summit
Finance
Will the Canada Investment Summit advance the sustainable economy?

ANALYSIS | Despite a comparatively high proportion of sustainable projects, the summit lacked a coherent strategy for sustainable investment

Outdoor electrical power equipment
Energy
A common gas used in China’s electrical grid is amplifying global warming

Sulfur hexafluoride is a chemical used to insulate high-voltage equipment – and it’s 24,300 times more potent than CO2 at warming the planet

Data centre
Comment
Canada can compete for AI without giving nature away

OPINION | Clear environmental limits can reduce risk, improve investment certainty and require major data centres to leave nature better off

Energy
Off-grid solar is powering Syria’s reconstruction

Decentralized renewables are bringing power back to Syria at speed and scale, but that shouldn’t come at the expense of the grid, experts say

Finance
Six big ideas for scaling community finance in Canada

ROUNDTABLE | We gathered leading experts to talk about what it would take to make community investing an everyday financial choice for Canadians

McCormick generating station in Baie-Comeau
Comment
Ottawa’s pitch for the Kino Aski LNG project obscures major risks for investors

OPINION | Investors at the Canada Investment Summit should be wary of important unresolved risks of the proposed pipeline and export facility

Decarbonization
How to grow a clean economy from the ground up

ANALYSIS | The energy transition represents one of the largest opportunities for community economic development in generations

Climate
A solution for failing climate policy: Make fossil fuels unprofitable

INTERVIEW | Trading emissions won’t solve climate change, Jessica Green argues. Instead, we need to go after the owners of fossil assets.

Langtang Lirung in Nepal, as seen from the southeast.
Climate Crisis
Glaciers will keep collapsing. Predicting when is incredibly hard.

The catastrophic glacial collapse in Nepal is a stark reminder of the urgent need for better monitoring and prevention

Energy
Solar is beating coal in China. But the story is more complicated than that.

While true, the stat is a little misleading. The nuance is in understanding energy capacity.

Mining
Quarries are multiplying in New England as rising waters boost demand

Beachfront property owners are building more stone walls to fend off sea level rise, while communities push for natural solutions

EnergyLeadership
There’s a super PAC battling anti-clean-energy forces in the United States

The Invest in Tomorrow Coalition has targeted far-right legislators who pushed to undo the Inflation Reduction Act – and it is having success

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