(1) ‘Broken promises’: Is Canada falling short on its climate change goals? – National | Globalnews.ca

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With bold plans being laid out to tackle the ever-growing threat of climate change at COP27, an annual United Nations conference, experts say actions should speak louder than words and richer nations, like Canada, need to step up the fight.

As greenhouse gas emissions continue to go up, extreme weather events, exacerbated by climate change, are becoming more frequent and destructive.

But as world leaders and climate negotiators look for ways to implement global climate goals, observers are less optimistic about progress, saying countries are already falling short on their previous pledges.

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“It’s not realistic to expect that this COP will … fix a lot of things because there are so many structural problems and so many … broken promises,” said Jessica Green, a professor of political science at the University of Toronto.

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The World’S Largest Net-Zero Hydrogen Facility In The Edmonton Region

Air Products https://taprootedmonton.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cf49a42db023942d337b0dabf&id=4aa1b30387&e=a9f3b03d8a has announced it in federal and provincial funding for its $1.6-billion net-zero hydrogen energy complex. The Alberta government said the Alberta Petrochemicals Incentive Program https://taprootedmonton.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cf49a42db023942d337b0dabf&id=cb6589674c&e=a9f3b03d8a would provide $161.5 million in grants over three years once the facility is operational. The province will supply an additional $15 million through Emissions Reduction Alberta. Edmonton Global https://edmontonglobal.ca/news/funding-advances-landmark-hydrogen-project-in-the-edmonton-region/?utm_source=Taproot+Edmonton&utm_campaign=4cfb48dc3b-TAPROOTYEG_PULSE_2022_11_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ef1adf0932-4cfb48dc3b-420497866&mc_cid=4cfb48dc3b&mc_eid=a9f3b03d8a said the funding is a “key milestone” that will “support building the world’s largest net-zero hydrogen facility in the Edmonton region.”

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Arctic Wildfires Show Approach of New Climate Feedback Loop

In two of the world’s warmest years, fires in the northernmost regions incinerated an area of forest and peatland bigger than Denmark, and almost as big as Slovakia, to release 150 million tons of carbon into the atmosphere, concludes a peer-reviewed study released last week by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

And the scientists warn there could be an exponential relationship between even tiny advances in temperature and the area at risk from fire. In 2019 and 2020, fires in the Siberian Arctic scorched 47 million hectares, or 47 thousand square kilometres of land. This adds up to 44% of all the area burned in the region in the last 40 years.

The Arctic soils are a natural reservoir of vast amounts of stored carbon. But as the global thermometer rises, once-waterlogged and frozen peatland dries and becomes potentially flammable. A few lightning strikes, a blaze in the boreal forest, and what had once been a carbon sink becomes a carbon source, as centuries of stored soil carbon goes up in smoke, methane, and carbon dioxide.

In the course of what used to be a normal year, Arctic permafrost and tundra soils are calculated to absorb 100 million tons of carbon from the atmosphere, the study says. In just two very recent years, wildfire actually liberated half as much again.

Inevitably, a greater burden of atmospheric carbon means a warmer world, which in turn means an ever greater danger of peat and timber fires in the Siberian and Canadian Arctic, to drive global heating to ever more dangerous levels. #environment #methane #artic #wildfires
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Governments have ignored the problem for years, when they could have started working towards reducing emissions years ago

By history.aip.org/climate/public…“>the end of the 1970s, scientific opinion had settled on warming as most likely, probably becoming evident around the year 2000 — that is, in a remote and uncertain future. history.aip.org/climate/public…