Greenspiration News & Events: COP 30 is on!

Tue Nov 11 15:37:24 UTC 2025

COP 30 - Global Climate Conference in Belem, Brazil

U.N. Climate Summit Opens in Brazil as the Phillippines is Hit by Back-to-Back to Deadly Typhoons

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/10/yeb_sano

Exposed: 5,000+ Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Got Access to U.N. Climate Talks & Helped Block Climate Action

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/10/nina_lakhani

Brazil’s André Corrêa do Lago says countries should follow China’s lead on clean energy as conference begins

Chinese “solar panels are cheaper, they’re so competitive [compared with fossil fuel energy] that they are everywhere now. If you’re thinking of climate change, this is good.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/10/rich-countries-have-lost-enthusiasm-for-tackling-climate-crisis-says-cop30-chief

Faltering governments will be blamed for famine and conflict abroad, and face stagnation and inflation at home

“When climate disasters decimate the lives of millions, when we already have the solutions, this will never, ever be forgiven” , says climate chief at start of Cop30.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/10/it-will-never-be-forgiven-un-climate-chief-warns-world-to-act-or-face-disaster

The good, bad and ugly in the decade since the Paris Climate Agreement - includes a section on Canada

Plus lots of climate news from around the world in this excellent weekly newsletter

https://mailchi.mp/nationalobserver/the-good-bad-and-ugly-in-the-decade-since-paris

What's at stake at COP 30? 3 videos

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM46aoaXkSP14R8e79thFV6aPwYlRp2N3

INTERNATIONAL

The SMR boom will soon go bust

https://www.msn.com/en-ph/technology/general/the-smr-boom-will-soon-go-bust/ar-AA1PJi1U 

Weaponising climate change to undermine the West

https://euvsdisinfo.eu/weaponising-climate-change-to-undermine-the-west/ 

Drought could force the city of Tehran - pop. 20 million - to evacuate by the end of the year. 

This kind of crisis will start hitting other cities too.

https://www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/drought-could-force-an-entire-city-to-evacuate-this-year/ 

Ukraine facing widespread power cuts after nuclear and gas plants attacked 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/09/ukraine-facing-widespread-power-cuts-after-generating-capacity-reduced-to-zero-by-russian-attacks  

Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Hoodwinked in the Hothouse

https://climatefalsesolutions.org/artificial-intelligence-ai/

CANADA 

‘Wrong direction’: Budget a brown-out for Canadian green transition

One policy expert called it “the most climate negative budget we've seen since the Harper era.” The emphasis was squarely placed on major projects including LNG Canada, the Darlington nuclear plant and the Pathways Plus CCS plan meant to “facilitate low-carbon oil exports” from Alberta.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/06/news/wrong-direction-budget-brown-out-canadian-green-transition-say-clean-sector-critics

Budget Analysis by Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives 

So what do we see on the climate front in the Carney budget? No new spending to reduce emissions. Not a single dime. But there are $3 billion dollars in cuts to existing climate programs. Transit funding? Cut. Greener homes funding? Cut. Support for a cap on emissions? Nope. Legislation to prevent fossil fuel companies from deliberately lying to the public about the climate? Gone. Renewable energy investment? Zero. But there's new subsidies for liquid natural gas.

https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/post-election-budget-could-plunge-canada-into-another-federal-election/

More budget analysis with links here

Canada's inequality has never been anywhere near this high before, and that's *before* Mr Carney started working to make it even worse. 

https://www.facebook.com/michael.nabert.knows/posts/pfbid02Z3mDrKj1v1gCfNmCjN8VictSmqypbeaX3Uu9aeQUEWV9saEjPfcfCnXcT2Cq9GJcl

But here's a positive spin:

A Second Golden Spike for an Electrified Canada: Using Carney’s Budget to Link the Provinces

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/11/08/a-second-golden-spike-for-an-electrified-canada-using-carneys-budget-to-link-the-provinces/#google_vignette 

Anti-Greenwashing Legislation in Canada is at Risk 

Over 90% of Canadians support anti-greenwashing laws but, while announcing Budget 2025, the Federal Government also announced its intention to weaken anti-greenwashing laws and potentially abandon the corporate emissions cap.

https://www.sierraclub.ca/action-item/greenwashing_regulations_canada_carney/

Honest Government Ad | Watch out, Canada - LNG in BC - 4 min. video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt6Hmp9ndkI 

LNG: Poison pollution peddled as solution

Despite what fossil fuel executives want you to believe, there is nothing clean about liquefied “natural” gas

https://stand.earth/lng-false-climate-solution/ 

Fracking with Fresh Water in BC 

Report: https://stand.earth/resources/fracking-with-freshwater-2025-lng-liquified-natural-gas-british-columbia-bc/ 

Petition: https://act.stand.earth/page/89100/action/1 

Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) technology is turning electric buses in BC into mobile batteries that could help stabilize neighbourhoods during peak demand.

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6966190 

Avi Lewis is taking another swing at federal politics

https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/11/06/Avi-Lewis-Interview/

ONTARIO

Doug Ford is abandoning his own climate commitments

The Ontario government is repealing its law requiring a provincial climate plan and emissions reduction targets. It’s blaming the feds, but Carney hasn’t cut Canada’s targets

https://thenarwhal.ca/ford-repeals-ontario-climate-plan/

Ontario to scrap legal requirement to set and update climate target

... wiping out key measures for holding the government to account on efforts to fight global warming.

https://www.flamboroughtoday.com/ontario-news/ontario-to-scrap-legal-requirement-to-set-and-update-climate-target-11453991

Ontario electricity supply costs jump 29% as nuclear spending rises

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/31/news/ontario-electricity-cost-nuclear 

Electricity rates for Ontarians increased 29% on Nov. 1, though will be partly offset by a higher provincial rebate. 

This massive subsidy disguises the real cost of keeping the lights on with expensive nuclear reactors.

https://www.cleanairalliance.org/rates-to-rise-29/ 

Reject Drone Warfare Testing in Downtown Ottawa: No Canadian City should Host War "Games"

https://www.change.org/p/reject-drone-warfare-testing-in-downtown-ottawa-no-canadian-city-should-host-war-games 

Anti-nuclear petition by NDP's Peter Tabuns

https://www.petertabuns.ca/affordable_electricity_climate_action_good_jobs_now 

TORONTO

We're calling on Toronto City Council to ditch Ontario's energy plan for our city

https://www.cleanairalliance.org/ieso-strikes-out/ 

A friend of the community is looking for a home base downtown Toronto

Offering work-exchange - cooking, elder care, animal care, organizing and more. Excellent References (including me)

https://www.facebook.com/PeiCzech/posts/pfbid0W2UuvGGuKEcmHdGQBE3q8JNvQprZUtXZHnW3Ejw8Lprg3oS7tLd2zANf8nYvXSGVl 

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EVENTS

COP30 Climate Hub

Daily live broadcasts from COP30 in Belém. November 10–21, 2025.

https://www.wedonthavetime.org/events/cop30 

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No Faith in Fossil Fuels

Mon. Nov. 10. 11 a.m. 

Ralph Thornton Community Cnetre, 765 Queen St. E. (E. of Broadview), Toronto

Interfaith Service of prayer and song. At noon, walk to Minister Dabrusin's office to deliver faith leaders' letter.

As Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin travels to the COP30 climate conference, faith communities across Canada are urging her to show moral courage and climate leadership. Join us for an interfaith service of mourning and hope followed by a short walk to Minister Dabrusin's constituency office. Together, we will grieve the mounting losses resulting from delayed action on global heating, lift up our shared hopes for creation, and to urge Canada’s leaders to take bold, compassionate action to protect life on Earth.

mailto:faithandclimateaction at gmail.com  

http://www.faithandclimate.ca 

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Art for conservation: A life drawing session using birds

Tues. Nov. 11, 4 - 5 p.m. ET

Brentwood Public Library, 36 Brentwood Road North, Toronto

Enjoy an hour-long life drawing session with museum skins and taxidermy as subject matter.

https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT575332&R=EVT575332 

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White Poppies for Remembrance Day

Tues. Nov. 11

White poppies were first produced in 1933 by the Co-operative Women's Guild, made up largely of women who had lost husbands, fathers, sons, brothers and friends in World War One. They represent:

- remembrance for all victims of war, both military and civilian

- a challenge to any attempts to glamorise or celebrate war

- a commitment to peace

https://www.ppu.org.uk/remembrance/white-poppies-frequently-asked-questions 

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The People of Canada will Love Us Again: Seduction, Abuse, and Subservience in Canadian Foreign Policy

Tues. Nov 11, 5 p.m. ET

Online and in person at Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave, Toronto

President Trump’s comment at his October meeting with Prime Minister Carney about the “mutual love” between Canada and the United States was interpreted by many media observers as striking a more “positive tone”. In fact, it masks a deeper problem in bilateral relations, in that many of our policy, business, and civil society leaders are clinging to a belief in enduring US beneficence towards Canada and the maintenance of US primacy in world affairs. For all the talk about “rupture” and “diversification”, Ottawa has not advanced a coherent foreign policy vision that allows for greater Canadian strategic autonomy. Is there a better way?

In person registration: https://www.scienceforpeace.org/events-1/the-people-of-canada-will-love-us-again-seduction-abuse-and-subservience-in-canadian-foreign-policy 

Online registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/yC0RTPpiRnC7X_OgDJSmNQ#/registration

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Pedestrian Safety Crisis: Why it's happening. What we can do about it. And why we haven't done it already

Tues. Nov. 11, 11 a.m. ET

In her book Right of Way, journalist Angie Schmitt shows us that car/pedestrian deaths are not unavoidable “accidents.” They don’t happen because of jaywalking or distracted walking. They are predictable, occurring in stark geographic patterns that tell a story about systemic inequality. These deaths are the forgotten faces of an increasingly urgent public health crisis that we have the tools, but not the will, to solve. With author Angie Schmitt, 3MPH Planning and Consulting, Cleveland, USA.

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5DxfxJp5QHSZ9NAz9TX69Q#/registration 

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Stop Nuclear Waste on the Ottawa River - Stand up for wildlife

Wed. Nov. 12, noon - 2 p.m. ET

90 Sparks St, Ottawa

We’re back in court on November 12 to defend the Kichi Sibi (Ottawa River) and our watershed from a nuclear waste megadump! Concerned Citizens of Renfrew County and Area, Kebaowek First Nation, Sierra Club Canada and the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility took Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) to court and WON . . . but CNL has appealed. JOIN US as CNL’s appeal is heard, and citizen groups and First Nations again argue before a judge why the law must be respected.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1760693291253824 

Watch the hearing on Zoom:

https://cas-satj.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LeYk0G1nQZaKJyige-7isw#/registration 

Background:

https://concernedcitizens.net/2025/11/10/the-nsdf-site-is-exceptionally-rich-in-biodiversity-granting-a-species-at-risk-permit-for-the-site-is-not-supportable-based-on-evidence/ 

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How Climate Change Fueled the Historic 2025 Hurricane Season

Wed. Nov. 12, noon ET

During this session, meteorologists will provide a recap of this year’s hurricanes — including Melissa, one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded, explore how attribution science can quantify climate change’s “fingerprint” on warm ocean waters fueling tropical systems, and provide expert analysis of what the 2025 hurricane season can tell us about the future — including if a Category 6 may be necessary as our atmosphere continues to warm.

https://coveringclimatenow.org/event/talking-shop-how-climate-change-fueled-the-historic-2025-hurricane-season/

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Philanthropy in a Changing Canada

Wed. Nov. 12, 7 - 9 p.m. PT

Online and in person in Vancouver

Philanthropic endeavours in Canada play a vital role in bridging the gaps that social safety nets can’t. With the never-ending trade war with the US and the possibility of a recession looming, philanthropic support from foundations is more important than ever.

The Walrus Talks Philanthropy in a Changing Canada brings together seven speakers who will discuss how philanthropy and charities are evolving to meet the needs of the communities they serve. What is the unique role of philanthropic foundations in the Canadian support system? How does philanthropy change based on the communities it supports? How can the philanthropic sector work with government and the private sector to institute long-term change? And, if we dream, how would we reenvision the philanthropic and charitable sector?

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-walrus-talks-philanthropy-in-a-changing-canada-tickets-1685250833609 

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Deep Sea Mining - The Science, Policy, and Cultural Implications

Wed. Nov. 12, 7 p.m. ET

The Science, Policy, and Cultural Implications of Deep Sea Mining. In this virtual expert panel we will discuss what the science tells us about the impacts of seabed mining, what kinds of policies we have and what kinds of policies we need to address seabed mining, and how it relates to the heritage and the cultural relationship that island nations have to the ocean. Hosted by The Sierra Club Marine Team

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/QeRLN38lQDq3cV4ng52gaw#/registration  

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Birding in Mongolia

Thur. Nov. 13, 2 - 3:30 p.m. ET

Brentwood Public Library, 36 Brentwood Road North, Toronto

Envision vast steppe, soaring eagles, and the calls of cranes echoing across the mountains. Join Carly for stories, photos, and birding highlights from this unforgettable birding destination adventure.

https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT575333&R=EVT575333 

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US Climate Policy in the Age of Trump 

Fri. Nov. 14, 2 p.m. ET

The arrival of the second Trump administration has had a deeply destabilizing effect on U.S. climate and energy policies. The administration is moving forward with large-scale environmental policy rollbacks, including efforts to block implementation of President Biden’s signature climate laws and to withdraw from and even undermine international climate initiatives. State and local governments are again being thrust to centre stage as the key actors in U.S. climate policy. The long-term outlook for climate action in the U.S. remains uncertain at this point. Join us for a discussion of these developments and their implications for Canadian and global climate policy.

https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/483TLyilTcKQebhnibvlzw 

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Toronto Rally for Federal NDP Candidate Yves Engler

Fri. Nov. 14, 7 p.m. ET

Center for Social Innovation, 192 Spadina Ave.

Speakers include: Yves Engler (author, candidate), Sara Rasikh (U of T encampment organizer), Julius Arscott (NDP Socialist Caucus), Mike Palecek (past president CUPW) and Rabbi David Mivasair

www.yvesforndpleader.ca

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Climate Consciousness Summit: A Living Field for Planetary Renewal

November 14 - 20

Hopes of an orderly transition to climate safety now seem more remote than at any time since the Paris Agreement was forged a decade ago. Old-style multi-lateral climate diplomacy has failed to solve the crisis. This moment demands a shift in consciousness, a fresh way of seeing, an openness to entirely new ideas, and a depth of global conversation that we have never experienced before. 

https://climateconsciousness.net/ 

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Taking Action for Safe Cycling in the City

Sat. Nov. 15, 2 - 4 p.m. ET

S. Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memorial Park Ave, East Toronto

Join the discussion with cycling advocates working to make Toronto cycling-friendly. Learn how you can become involved in advocating for safer biking conditions in our community. Whether you're a seasoned cyclist or just starting out, let's work together to make our city a safer place for cyclists.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/taking-action-for-safe-cycling-in-the-city-tickets-1797500766179 

https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT576457&R=EVT576457 

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Socialism 2025 – The Status Quo is Over

A Socialist Fall Education Conference

Sat. Nov. 15 

Online and in-person at Trinity-St. Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor Street West, Toronto

Topics and speakers shown in Eastern Time:

2 p.m. Unmasking Canadian Imperialism

- speakers: Yves Engler, Sara Rasikh (PYM), plus one.

4 p.m. Reform or Revolution: Insurgent Candidates in Capitalist Parties

- speakers: John Pottinger, SA USA, Gary Porter SA Canada, plus one.

6 p.m. Democratic Rights Under Attack in the Workers' Movement

- speakers: Adriana Cummings-Teicher (COPE labor coordinator), Julius Arscott, plus one.

https://dub.sh/SA2025FallEdCon

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https://www.democracynow.org/ 

Tooker Tapes Archive Project - Youtube Playlist

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3IwhNn-WrINTQz2fBNayDoBWLW0y59le 

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