Laurie Adkin, Ph.D.
@laurieadkin.bsky.social
Professor Emerita, University of Alberta, Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Ecology and Democracy, climate policy in Canada and Alberta, populist far right, political ecology of higher education
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CAT Global Update 2025 🚨 Ten years after the #ParisAgreement we see little to no measurable progress in warming projections - for the fourth consecutive year.
The 2035 #NDCs have made no difference to our warming outlook.
🔗 bit.ly/CAT_Global_2...
The 2035 #NDCs have made no difference to our warming outlook.
🔗 bit.ly/CAT_Global_2...
November 13, 2025 at 10:01 AM
CAT Global Update 2025 🚨 Ten years after the #ParisAgreement we see little to no measurable progress in warming projections - for the fourth consecutive year.
The 2035 #NDCs have made no difference to our warming outlook.
🔗 bit.ly/CAT_Global_2...
The 2035 #NDCs have made no difference to our warming outlook.
🔗 bit.ly/CAT_Global_2...
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Our Banks vs The Amazon scorecard is making the headlines 👀📰
Join us in keeping up the pressure on big banks to stop financing the destruction of the Amazon and fueling the climate crisis and #ExitAmazonOilAndGas.
Check out our full report here 👉 https://banksvstheamazon.org/
Join us in keeping up the pressure on big banks to stop financing the destruction of the Amazon and fueling the climate crisis and #ExitAmazonOilAndGas.
Check out our full report here 👉 https://banksvstheamazon.org/
November 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Our Banks vs The Amazon scorecard is making the headlines 👀📰
Join us in keeping up the pressure on big banks to stop financing the destruction of the Amazon and fueling the climate crisis and #ExitAmazonOilAndGas.
Check out our full report here 👉 https://banksvstheamazon.org/
Join us in keeping up the pressure on big banks to stop financing the destruction of the Amazon and fueling the climate crisis and #ExitAmazonOilAndGas.
Check out our full report here 👉 https://banksvstheamazon.org/
Just re-posting this really useful analysis of Alberta's TIER system, which--if you've been following--has always been about greenwashing rather than GHG emission reductions.
www.enviroeconomics.org/single-post/...
www.enviroeconomics.org/single-post/...
Simulating how carbon markets work in the wild
For about a year, I’ve been building a Python-based simulation model that mirrors how large-emitter trading systems behave in the wild. These industrial carbon pricing systems look somewhat uniform on...
www.enviroeconomics.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Just re-posting this really useful analysis of Alberta's TIER system, which--if you've been following--has always been about greenwashing rather than GHG emission reductions.
www.enviroeconomics.org/single-post/...
www.enviroeconomics.org/single-post/...
Note how prominently the word "plan" features in this account of how to become the world leader in a particular technology . . . Meanwhile, Canadian governments flap around with tax credits and wishes.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
'They're just so much further ahead': How China won the world's EV battery race
In 2005, China only had two EV battery manufacturers. Twenty years later, it produces more than three-quarters of the world's lithium-ion cells. How did it happen?
www.bbc.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Note how prominently the word "plan" features in this account of how to become the world leader in a particular technology . . . Meanwhile, Canadian governments flap around with tax credits and wishes.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
These are the planet-destroying billionaires taking over from the fossil fuel corporations, while our govts compete for their investment in AI centres . . .
www.truthdig.com/articles/the...
www.truthdig.com/articles/the...
The Ecological Cost of AI Is Much Higher Than You Think - Truthdig
As the demands of AI grow, each generation of microchips requires more energy, minerals and water to produce, driving a ruinous cycle.
www.truthdig.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:27 AM
These are the planet-destroying billionaires taking over from the fossil fuel corporations, while our govts compete for their investment in AI centres . . .
www.truthdig.com/articles/the...
www.truthdig.com/articles/the...
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Climate change disproportionately impacts the world’s poor. Even in developed countries, over 80% of people living in poverty face climate-related hazards such as extreme heat and air pollution.
People In Poverty Have The Most At Stake Amid World Climate Talks
Data shows that even in developed nations relatively sheltered from climate change, over 80% of poor people are exposed to at least one climate hazard, like drought, air pollution or extreme heat.
www.civilbeat.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Climate change disproportionately impacts the world’s poor. Even in developed countries, over 80% of people living in poverty face climate-related hazards such as extreme heat and air pollution.
The Liberals and Conservatives keep reducing the numbers of immigrants and refugees they will admit to Canada while at the same time cutting foreign aid and promoting oil and gas exports that are fuelling the global climate crisis. 1/
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 AM
The Liberals and Conservatives keep reducing the numbers of immigrants and refugees they will admit to Canada while at the same time cutting foreign aid and promoting oil and gas exports that are fuelling the global climate crisis. 1/
Here is a cautionary tale for Albertans.
www.somo.nl/shells-reckl...
www.somo.nl/shells-reckl...
Shell’s reckless divestment from Niger Delta - SOMO
Shell's divestment from Nigeria leaves a legacy of widespread pollution and evades responsibility for its toxic mess by selling its problem oil assets.
www.somo.nl
November 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Here is a cautionary tale for Albertans.
www.somo.nl/shells-reckl...
www.somo.nl/shells-reckl...
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This is interesting: www.currentaffairs.org/news/2024/01...
The Limits of Basic Income
Providing people with cash payments has benefits, but guaranteed employment and public services are a better option for transforming our economy.
www.currentaffairs.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This is interesting: www.currentaffairs.org/news/2024/01...
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"Glaciers of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) and the broader High Mountain Asia (HMA) region, which are vital water sources for nearly two billion people, could suffer catastrophic losses even under moderate global warming scenarios, according to a new global assessment by @iccinet.bsky.social"
At 2°C warming, only 25% of Hindu Kush–Himalayan glaciers will survive, warns report | Dehradun News - The Times of India
Dehradun: Glaciers of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) and the broader High Mountain Asia (HMA) region, which are vital water sources for nearly two bill.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
"Glaciers of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) and the broader High Mountain Asia (HMA) region, which are vital water sources for nearly two billion people, could suffer catastrophic losses even under moderate global warming scenarios, according to a new global assessment by @iccinet.bsky.social"
Et voila, en fin, Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood nails it. Well done, @followinghadrian.bsky.social
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...
#cdnpoli #ClimateEmergency
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...
#cdnpoli #ClimateEmergency
Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budget
The budget makes clear that fossil fuel production for export is a central pillar of this government’s economic strategy — and that it won’t let climate measures get in the way.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Et voila, en fin, Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood nails it. Well done, @followinghadrian.bsky.social
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...
#cdnpoli #ClimateEmergency
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...
#cdnpoli #ClimateEmergency
These @policyalternatives.ca authors offer a very strong review of the Liberal climate policy framework -- on which the Carney government is indeed doubling down. It needs to be emphasized that the pillars of the Liberal's framework have failed dreadfully.1/
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Canadian climate policy a decade after the Paris Agreement - CCPA
The Paris Agreement was signed in 2015 by 196 countries amid a wave of global urgency to confront the defining crisis of our time—climate change. Grounded in the best available science, it called for ...
www.policyalternatives.ca
November 9, 2025 at 4:36 AM
These @policyalternatives.ca authors offer a very strong review of the Liberal climate policy framework -- on which the Carney government is indeed doubling down. It needs to be emphasized that the pillars of the Liberal's framework have failed dreadfully.1/
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Neoliberals: The tax credit approach has failed for more than 40 years, so let's keep doing it . . .
Meanwhile, Earth is now locked in to 2 C of warming (already passed that in Canada) and on its way to at least 3 by the end of the century.
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/11/06/o...
Meanwhile, Earth is now locked in to 2 C of warming (already passed that in Canada) and on its way to at least 3 by the end of the century.
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/11/06/o...
Ottawa hopes investment tax credits will help fight climate change — but nobody is using them
The federal government allotted more than $9 billion to fund investment tax credits designed to boost private sector support for clean technology, but a new report from Canada's environment commission...
www.ipolitics.ca
November 9, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Neoliberals: The tax credit approach has failed for more than 40 years, so let's keep doing it . . .
Meanwhile, Earth is now locked in to 2 C of warming (already passed that in Canada) and on its way to at least 3 by the end of the century.
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/11/06/o...
Meanwhile, Earth is now locked in to 2 C of warming (already passed that in Canada) and on its way to at least 3 by the end of the century.
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/11/06/o...
"Even if fully achieved [and we are far from it], Canada’s 2030 target itself is not ambitious enough to be 1.5°C compatible."
climateactiontracker.org/countries/ca...
climateactiontracker.org/countries/ca...
Canada
climateactiontracker.org
November 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
"Even if fully achieved [and we are far from it], Canada’s 2030 target itself is not ambitious enough to be 1.5°C compatible."
climateactiontracker.org/countries/ca...
climateactiontracker.org/countries/ca...
"technology-based CDR accounts for only about one-millionth of the CO2 emitted from fossil fuels"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis
History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:36 AM
"technology-based CDR accounts for only about one-millionth of the CO2 emitted from fossil fuels"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"Despite Cop28’s global stocktake calling on all nations to contribute to “transitioning away from fossil fuels”, collectively there are still plans to produce more than double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than is consistent with ... 1.5C."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis
History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"Despite Cop28’s global stocktake calling on all nations to contribute to “transitioning away from fossil fuels”, collectively there are still plans to produce more than double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than is consistent with ... 1.5C."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The @mark-carney.bsky.social budget allocates $20 million/yr for a Youth Climate Corps and $800 million/yr in tax credits for the Pathways Alliance CCS pipeline. The first is 2% of the amt needed to seriously tackle youth unemployment. The latter locks Canada in to expanding oil & gas extraction.
November 8, 2025 at 6:11 AM
The @mark-carney.bsky.social budget allocates $20 million/yr for a Youth Climate Corps and $800 million/yr in tax credits for the Pathways Alliance CCS pipeline. The first is 2% of the amt needed to seriously tackle youth unemployment. The latter locks Canada in to expanding oil & gas extraction.
The relationship between Alberta Conservative politicians, state agencies under their control, and the oil/gas/coal corporations may be described as fusional. This has been the case since the 1950s. The AER is run by oil/gas industry men --always has been. 1/
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
Documents related to Summit coal decision raise more questions about Alberta Energy Regulator’s independence
Regulator’s CEO sought ‘input’ from Energy Minister’s chief of staff on a motion to cancel hearings about a proposed mine
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:01 AM
The relationship between Alberta Conservative politicians, state agencies under their control, and the oil/gas/coal corporations may be described as fusional. This has been the case since the 1950s. The AER is run by oil/gas industry men --always has been. 1/
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
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this is incredibly lucid and valuable research.
Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it.
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
this is incredibly lucid and valuable research.
"Millions of tons of stamp sands containing toxins like arsenic, lead, and mercury have eroded the coastline [of Lake Superior], overwhelmed fish spawning habitats, and poisoned the benthic animals that feed lake trout and whitefish."
thecurrentowdm.substack.com/p/disaster-o...
thecurrentowdm.substack.com/p/disaster-o...
Disaster on Gichigami
What if the most famous disaster on Lake Superior never really ended?
thecurrentowdm.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
"Millions of tons of stamp sands containing toxins like arsenic, lead, and mercury have eroded the coastline [of Lake Superior], overwhelmed fish spawning habitats, and poisoned the benthic animals that feed lake trout and whitefish."
thecurrentowdm.substack.com/p/disaster-o...
thecurrentowdm.substack.com/p/disaster-o...
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"For essentially the last 25 years every single resources minister, bar one, has left Parliament and gone to work for the resources industry."
- Senator Larissa Waters at our Revenue Summit 2025
@larissawaters.bsky.social #auspol
- Senator Larissa Waters at our Revenue Summit 2025
@larissawaters.bsky.social #auspol
November 7, 2025 at 3:58 AM
"For essentially the last 25 years every single resources minister, bar one, has left Parliament and gone to work for the resources industry."
- Senator Larissa Waters at our Revenue Summit 2025
@larissawaters.bsky.social #auspol
- Senator Larissa Waters at our Revenue Summit 2025
@larissawaters.bsky.social #auspol
Still basking in the relief and hopefulness of Mamdani's win in New York, I permit myself a little homage a la Leonard Cohen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTTC...
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTTC...
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan (Official Video)
YouTube video by LeonardCohenVEVO
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Still basking in the relief and hopefulness of Mamdani's win in New York, I permit myself a little homage a la Leonard Cohen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTTC...
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTTC...
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social