Movement to keep fossil fuels in the ground gaining momentum in Canada and abroad | CBC News:

The movement to keep oil and gas in the ground has reached Canada, as Quebec joined the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance
this week — becoming the first North American member of a new group
being launched at the United Nations climate conference in Glasgow that
wants to phase out the production of oil and gas.

Cutting fossil fuel production also means targeting the emissions
when oil and gas are burned. Canada, like other countries in the Paris
Agreement, is only required to report emissions that come from its
territory.

The emissions numbers for the oil and gas sector only
account for emissions from producing, transporting and processing those
fuels in Canada. The emissions from those fuels when they are actually
burned in cars or power plants abroad don’t count toward Canada’s
totals.

“So
most of the fossil fuels that Canada produces, we export and go
somewhere else, and then they’re consumed and they’re burned. And the
emissions associated with that shows up on another country’s tab,” said
Angela Carter, an associate political science professor at the
University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ont., who researches the fossil fuel
industry.

This has led to a growing call to target the production
and supply of oil and gas, rather than just the emissions. Canada’s
current plan to cut emissions from the oil and gas industry relies on
making companies extract the oil more efficiently.

Canadian intelligence warned PM Trudeau that China covertly funded 2019 election candidates: Sources – National | Globalnews.ca:

Canadian
intelligence officials have warned Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that
China has allegedly been targeting Canada with a vast campaign of
foreign interference, which includes funding a clandestine network of at
least 11 federal candidates running in the 2019 election, according to
Global News sources.

Delivered
to the prime minister and several cabinet members in a series of
briefings and memos first presented in January, the allegations included
other detailed examples of Beijing’s efforts to further its influence
and, in turn, subvert Canada’s democratic process, sources said.

Based
on recent information from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service
(CSIS), those efforts allegedly involve payments through intermediaries
to candidates affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), placing
agents into the offices of MPs in order to influence policy, seeking to
co-opt and corrupt former Canadian officials to gain leverage in
Ottawa, and mounting aggressive campaigns to punish Canadian politicians
whom the People’s Republic of China (PRC) views as threats to its
interests.

COP 27: Can World Leaders Be Trusted to Deliver?:

The devastation shows how “the world is failing to invest in
protecting the lives and livelihoods of those on the front line,” said
UN Secretary-General António Guterres in a video posted in the run-up to
COP 27. He called the conference a critical “litmus test” for
rebuilding trust between developed and developing countries, and for
meaningful outcomes around loss and damage, reports Reuters.

Loss
and damage finance would help cover the disproportionate destruction
already facing countries like Pakistan—nations that are unable to adapt
fast enough, unprepared for extreme weather, and have contributed very
little to the problem based on their per capita emissions. But for more
than 30 years, securing financing from more developed countries has been like pulling teeth during climate negotiations.

“Rich
governments did not want to be held financially liable for the impacts
of their historically high emissions,” Reuters explains. Glasgow’s COP
26 failed to make progress on loss and damage, except for a £1-million funding announcement from Scotland. A 2009 pledge for an annual US$100 billion in international climate finance was also left unmet.

“The
rich world has created the climate crisis, they have agreed they will
pay to clean it up, but they have broken their promise and left those
that have done the least to cause it to suffer and try and cope with the
consequences,” said Khadija Mohamed Al Makhzoumi, Somalia’s minister
for environment and climate change.