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Global Energy Efficiency Accelerating, But Well Below COP28 Goals

November 21, 2025 Energi Staff

Global improvement in energy efficiency is accelerating — but still far from the pace needed to meet 2030 targets. According to a new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), global primary energy intensity — [Read more]

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IEA Puts ‘Poison on the Menu’ But Maintains Net-Zero Scenario Despite Pressure from Trump

November 13, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on Nov. 13, 2025. By Mitchell Beer Under intense pressure from the Trump administration, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has issued a carefully-hedged analysis that still shows [Read more]

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Slow efficiency progress is a wasted opportunity

November 10, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by the International Energy Agency on Nov. 6, 2025. By Brian Motherway, Head of Energy Efficiency and Inclusive Transitions Office Efficiency is more relevant now than ever Governments around the world [Read more]

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Opinion: What is going on with Alberta’s climate-change strategy?

November 3, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by Policy Options on Nov. 3, 2025. By Lennie Kaplan Alberta’s climate-change strategy, the emissions reduction and energy development plan (ERED), announced with fanfare by the Smith government in April 2023, seems to [Read more]

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Trump officials say Alaska is ‘open for business.’ So far, no one’s buying.

November 3, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by Grist on Oct. 31, 2025. by Lois Parshley As Kristen Moreland waited for the livestream to buffer, her thoughts drifted to the years she’d devoted to defending Arctic National Wildlife [Read more]

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Fossils’ response to methane leaks improves too slowly, 90 per cent still ignored: UN

October 28, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on Oct. 27, 2025. By Chris Bonasia As governments and fossil fuel companies largely fail to act on alerts from methane-detecting satellites, a new report says they’re [Read more]

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Alberta orphaned wells strategy faces pushback from residents, municipalities, experts

October 9, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on Oct. 8, 2025. By Jody MacPherson Pushback is growing among Alberta municipalities, landowners, and concerned residents who say the province is pressing ahead with a regulatory [Read more]

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‘Glaring loophole’ leaves LNG start-ups underestimating gas flaring: Study

October 2, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on Oct. 1, 2025. By Chris Bonasia Most environmental assessments ignore start-up flaring at LNG export facilities, but the waste gas emissions in this phase emit far [Read more]

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Alberta’s new pipeline pitch: Bad for business, disastrous for climate, analysts say

October 2, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on Oct. 2, 2025. By Mitchell Beer Climate advocates and policy analysts are taking Alberta Premier Danielle Smith back to business school after she promised to pitch [Read more]

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Back ‘nation-building, not nation-burning’ projects, 250 city leaders urge Carney

September 29, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on Sept. 26, 2025.  By Mitchell Beer A coalition of more than 250 mayors and city councillors from across Canada is calling on the federal government to [Read more]

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Report: Big businesses are doing carbon dioxide removal all wrong

September 12, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by Grist on Sept. 9, 2025. By Joseph Winters Achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 will require removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, [Read more]

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Fossil fuel emissions made intense heatwaves 20 to 200x more likely: Study

September 12, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on Sept. 10, 2025. By Chris Bonasia Pollution from 180 major fossil fuel and cement companies has made recent heatwaves hotter and more frequent, a new study [Read more]

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Environmental spending faces steep cuts in Carney’s fall budget

September 8, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on Sept. 7, 2025. By Christopher Bonasia Prime Minister Mark Carney’s planned “austerity and investment” budget could deliver significant cuts to Canada’s environmental programs, with green transport [Read more]

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How much carbon can we safely store underground? Much less than previously thought.

September 4, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by Grist on Sept. 3, 2025. By Joseph Winters Drawing down carbon from the air and stashing it in underground rock formations has been framed as an essential way to slow [Read more]

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Saskatchewan cites energy security in $900M coal refurbishment

September 4, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on Sept. 2, 2025. By Jody MacPherson Saskatchewan is pressing ahead with its plan to keep burning coal for electricity, committing $900 million over four years to [Read more]

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Green hydrogen and derived commodities: an opportunity for Global South’s green industrialization

August 18, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by IRENA on Aug. 8, 2025. Due to its potential to decarbonize hard-to-abate sectors, green hydrogen–produced via electrolysis using only renewable energy resources— and hydrogen-derived commodities including ammonia and methanol, emerge [Read more]

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Five key policies to promote road transport electrification in developing markets

August 14, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by IRENA on August 11, 2025. Road transport accounts for approximately 18 per cent of total global CO2 emissions and is linked to a significant share of urban air pollution, as around 94 [Read more]

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U.S. emissions rise, China’s fall, in massive shift between world’s biggest climate polluters

August 14, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on August 13, 2025. by Mitchell Beer The United States’ carbon emissions increased while China’s declined in the first half of this year compared to the same [Read more]

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Canada’s inactive oil and gas wells emit 7x more methane than reported: Study

June 26, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on June 23, 2025. By Chris Bonasia Methane emissions from Canada’s inactive oil and gas wells are up to seven times higher than government estimates, a new [Read more]

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‘World will be watching’ Carney’s fast-tracked megaprojects as carbon budget shrinks

June 26, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on June 23, 2025. By Mitchell Beer With a wave of new “nationally significant” projects on the way after the Carney government’s Building Canada Act (Bill C-5) becomes law, [Read more]

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Where’s the Beef, Danielle?

by Markham Hislop in Markham on Energy

Recall “was not intended to have unions weaponize it to bus people in and put GoFundMes online in order to be able to topple the sitting government” Today in the Legislature, Danielle Smith launched yet [Read more]

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