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--></style></head><body lang=EN-CA link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><img width=291 height=168 style='width:3.0312in;height:1.75in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01DA319F.B1178280" alt="A close-up of a logo
Description automatically generated"></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>Transition Out of Fossil Fuels, Dawn of Renewables as COP28 Concludes in Dubai <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.theenergymix.com/change-in-tone-has-cop-decision-moving-in-right-direction-as-negotiators-work-overnight/">https://www.theenergymix.com/change-in-tone-has-cop-decision-moving-in-right-direction-as-negotiators-work-overnight/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>COP28: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Dubai <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/cop28-key-outcomes-agreed-at-the-un-climate-talks-in-dubai/">https://www.carbonbrief.org/cop28-key-outcomes-agreed-at-the-un-climate-talks-in-dubai/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>100 Hours of Climate News Set the Agenda for 2024</span></b><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>The COP28 climate summit delivered the best result it could. It was progress. It wasn’t nearly enough. Now—again, still—it’s up to the rest of us.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://energymixweekender.substack.com/p/100-hours-of-climate-news-set-the">https://energymixweekender.substack.com/p/100-hours-of-climate-news-set-the</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>The 12-year-old who Halted COP28<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://heated.world/p/the-12-year-old-who-halted-cop28">https://heated.world/p/the-12-year-old-who-halted-cop28</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>The Federal Liberal Government used COP 28 to announce two important emission reduction policies<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>While still only in draft form, these policies will play a major role in whether Canada meets its Paris Agreement pledges of 40 to 45% reductions in GHG emissions by 2030 and net zero by 2050: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>1) a framework to cap greenhouse gas pollution from the oil and gas industry, and <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/news/2023/12/canada-introduces-framework-to-cap-greenhouse-gas-pollution-from-oil-and-gas-sector.html">https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/news/2023/12/canada-introduces-framework-to-cap-greenhouse-gas-pollution-from-oil-and-gas-sector.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>2) draft methane regulations to support cleaner energy and climate action. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/news/2023/12/minister-guilbeault-announces-canadas-draft-methane-regulations-to-support-cleaner-energy-and-climate-action.html">https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/news/2023/12/minister-guilbeault-announces-canadas-draft-methane-regulations-to-support-cleaner-energy-and-climate-action.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>The oily backroom campaign to sink the federal emissions cap<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>The framework is “literally a licence to pollute until it is too late” - MP Monique Pauzé<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Green Party Leader Elizabeth May called the framework “a major victory for Canada's oil and gas lobbyists."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/12/13/news/oily-campaign-sink-federal-emissions-cap">https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/12/13/news/oily-campaign-sink-federal-emissions-cap</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>Nuclear expert on the COP28 pledge to triple nuclear energy production: ‘Trumpism enters energy policy’<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>This extended interview with Mycle Schneider, and his latest data-driven global survey, vanquishes the myth that nuclear power can help solve the global climate crisis.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://thebulletin.org/2023/12/nuclear-expert-mycle-schneider-on-the-cop28-pledge-to-triple-nuclear-energy-production-trumpism-enters-energy-policy/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=MondayNewsletter12182023&utm_content=NuclearRisk_TripleNuclear_11182023">https://thebulletin.org/2023/12/nuclear-expert-mycle-schneider-on-the-cop28-pledge-to-triple-nuclear-energy-production-trumpism-enters-energy-policy/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>Petition opposing a permanent nuke waste dump at Chalk River, Ontario to the Gov't of Canada<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4676">https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4676</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>Fukushima: Japan’s Triple Threat in Spades<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/12/15/fukushima-japans-triple-threat-in-spades/">https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/12/15/fukushima-japans-triple-threat-in-spades/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>Alberta, Sask. Governments Isolate Themselves as Off-Fossil Transition Begins<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>“The transition is happening, but the fact that we recognize it in the text sends the signal to companies and investors and countries around the world that this is where the world is heading.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.theenergymix.com/alberta-sask-governments-isolate-themselves-as-off-fossil-transition-begins-guilbeault/">https://www.theenergymix.com/alberta-sask-governments-isolate-themselves-as-off-fossil-transition-begins-guilbeault/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>The scariest climate graph in the world<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>One particular graph encapsulates the gravity of our current climate trajectory more starkly than any other<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-scariest-climate-plot-in-theCOP28">https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-scariest-climate-plot-in-theCOP28</a> and the nuclear energy numbers racket<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://thebulletin.org/2023/12/the-nuclear-energy-numbers-racket/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=ThursdayNewsletter12142023&utm_content=ClimateChange_NuclearEnergy_12132023">https://thebulletin.org/2023/12/the-nuclear-energy-numbers-racket/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>Greenwashing Big Oil & Gas: The Fossil Fuel Deception Playbook<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Part 1: <a href="https://cape.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Greenwashing-Toolkit-Part-1.pdf">https://cape.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Greenwashing-Toolkit-Part-1.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Part 2: <a href="https://cape.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Greenwashing-Toolkit-Part-2.pdf">https://cape.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Greenwashing-Toolkit-Part-2.pdf</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>A dangerous fuel threatens to undermine the world’s renewable energy promises - forest biomass (wood pellets)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>With devastating impacts on communities, biodiversity and the global climate, the growing forest biomass industry could turn clean energy dreams into nightmarish destruction.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/12/09/opinion/dangerous-fuel-threatens-undermine-renewable-energy-promises">https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/12/09/opinion/dangerous-fuel-threatens-undermine-renewable-energy-promises</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>Nature protection targets to become law<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>The federal government’s pledge to protect a third of Canada’s land and water by 2030 -- 30 by 30 -- will be put into legislation next year, says federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault. “Canada is one of the first countries in the world to announce its intent to enshrine nature and biodiversity commitments into law."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/12/12/news/nature-protection-targets-become-law">https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/12/12/news/nature-protection-targets-become-law</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>Climate Defiance<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>We do direct action. We are young. We are livid. We are no longer willing to be disposable.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.instagram.com/climatedefiance/">https://www.instagram.com/climatedefiance/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.climatedefiance.org/">https://www.climatedefiance.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>Municipalities should require heat pumps for new housing<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>We have an opportunity to reduce emissions, ensure greater housing affordability, build resilience to climate change and improve our local air quality<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.thespec.com/opinion/contributors/municipalities-should-require-heat-pumps-for-new-housing/article_d59fb4ff-6510-5996-baee-044a678fb22d.html">https://www.thespec.com/opinion/contributors/municipalities-should-require-heat-pumps-for-new-housing/article_d59fb4ff-6510-5996-baee-044a678fb22d.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>Halton Hills says no to a big new gas plant, and yes to renewables and conservation<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.cleanairalliance.org/halton-hills-says-no-to-a-big-new-gas-plant/">https://www.cleanairalliance.org/halton-hills-says-no-to-a-big-new-gas-plant/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>Romana’s Reign<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Romana Didulo, the self-proclaimed Queen of Canada, is unlike almost any other cult leader Canada has ever seen. 40 min. podcast.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/cults-9-romanas-reign/">https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/cults-9-romanas-reign/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>It’s been a big week for climate action!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Since 1997, the Ontario Clean Air Alliance has tenaciously fought for climate action and clean air. Help us continue to build momentum by making a year-end charitable donation. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.cleanairalliance.org/climateweek/">https://www.cleanairalliance.org/climateweek/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>______________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>______________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:#7030A0'>Self and Collective Care: A Learning Circle on Holistic Approaches to Sustaining Activism<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Wed. Dec. 20, 7 p.m. ET<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Join us for this discussion-based, guided learning circle on how to integrate better practices of care into your organizing relationships, groups and spaces. You'll leave with new ideas and practices about how best to weave meaningful practices of care into your social change work.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErcO-prDkoHtYPooHSA_j-_D5H5JE9DaGQ#/registration">https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErcO-prDkoHtYPooHSA_j-_D5H5JE9DaGQ#/registration</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>______________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>______________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:#ED7D31'>Off the Hill: Reviewing a year of crisis<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Wed. 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