Books

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a landmark science assessment, August 9th, 2021

https://www.theenergymix.com/2021/08/09/no-more-excuses-unimaginable-unforgiving-world-without-drastic-moves-to-cut-emissions-ipcc-warns

An Ipsos poll carried out in July 2021 reveals that 49% of the population of Canada want urgent action on Climate Change mitigation

and  >80% of people in Atlantic Canada want a transition to renewable energy: https://canadians.org/update/poll-atlantic-canadians-overwhelmingly-want-shift-fossil-fuels-support-workers-and-equity

A paper about floods, giving recommendations for flood-risk management: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-021-00195-3

Phasing out coal-fired steel production in Canada: https://www.corporateknights.com/channels/climate-and-carbon/steel-giants-sign-up-for-carbon-cutting-transformation-16280856 

and https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/algoma-steel-420million-feds-clean-technology-1.6090465

Making homes more energy-efficient: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/wrapping-these-buildings-in-a-nice-warm-sweater-edmonton-retrofit-first-of-its-kind-1.6128524

and https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/07/12/opinion/canada-climate-change-retrofits-mission

Extracting lithium from seawater? https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/seawater-could-provide-nearly-unlimited-amounts-critical-battery-material

How climate change denial is deliberately created:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08lxv3n

Predictive maps of North America's changing climate:

https://projects.propublica.org/climate-migration

11 ways to measure clean growth: 

https://climatechoices.ca/reports/clean-growth

Capturing CO2 to reverse climate change, a review of the pros and cons:

https://boingboing.net/2020/09/09/detailed-overview-of-pros-and.html

News from Lithuania; "Floatovoltaics" could save land and pair well with hydropower:

https://news.trust.org/item/20200929070944-18tg2

Would a shift to the "flexitarian" diet save lives?

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46865204

Artificial Intelligence could help to feed the world sustainably:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/this-is-how-ai-could-feed-the-world-s-hungry-while-sustaining-the-planet

It is currently very difficult to break down plastic bottles into their chemical constituents in order to make new ones from old, meaning more new plastic is being created from oil each year. Scientists are creating a "super-enzyme" derived from bacteria that naturally evolved the ability to eat plastic: 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/28/new-super-enzyme-eats-plastic-bottles-six-times-faster?

2010, the UN’s Convention on Biological Diversity set 20 targets to try and slow, then halt the loss of biodiversity. Targets on combating biodiversity loss in farming, controlling pollution and protecting threatened ecosystems have been missed .

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/global-biodiversity-un-target-transitions

Shared by group member Mira: Dr. Jane Goodall reads the children's book that's about her own childhood.

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

Why we need to love insects!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TS0L4D2nCQ&feature