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These should be the climate change priorities for Canada's new government

Corporate Knights

We know how to reduce these emissions that are released in oil and gas production and pipeline transport, and doing so is cost-effective. In fact, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia have already slashed these powerful emissions by more than half in less than a decade.

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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation

One example is human activity causing climate change and contributing to poor health outcomes (e.g. through water insecurity, mental health crises after climate disasters, increase in respiratory and cardiovascular disease from poor air quality due to wildfires).

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Is a cleaner grid enough to help the U.S. meet its climate targets?

Corporate Knights

Nearly every major utility company pledged to reach net-zero emissions by mid-century. With power emissions falling, transportation is now the largest-emitting sector at 29% of U.S. emissions in 2019. But modelling suggests that, without a federal push to close dirty plants and open more clean ones, the U.S.

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