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Extreme Heat Is Making Life Increasingly Unlivable The number of hours where it’s too hot for everyday activities has doubled since 1950, a new study found.

It's getting too hot to walk the dog or sweep the porch for a growing number of people.

U.S. Automakers Risk Being Reduced to Niche Producers of Gas Vehicles

Corollary: oil companies risk becoming niche suppliers of energy. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/b...

Your 401(k) could shrink due to climate risks. A lawsuit argues that your employer has a duty to protect it A novel legal challenge alleges that a real estate company breached its duties by failing to protect retirement savings from climate-related financial risks.

Class action lawsuit launched against real estate giant Cushman & Wakefield for failing to protect their workers' retirement funds from climate financial risk.

Great summary in @fastcompany.com

#greensky #retirement #pensions

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Germany’s Solar Boom Eases Power Costs as Gas Price Jumps Germany is seeing unusually strong solar power output in March, helping to cap electricity prices even as the conflict in the Middle East drives up the cost of energy worldwide.

Germany is seeing unusually strong solar power output in March, helping to cap electricity prices even as the conflict in the Middle East drives up the cost of energy worldwide.

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

Meanwhile... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hawaiʻi voters support holding Big Oil accountable for the home insurance crisis | Center for Climate Integrity New poll shows voters are very concerned about rising cost, reduced availability of home insurance in aftermath of climate-driven Maui wildfires.

👉79% of homeowners report rising home insurance premiums.

👉66% of voters see a connection between Big Oil, extreme weather, and rising insurance costs.

👉61% of voters support legislation that would empower states to sue Big Oil companies to recover insurance-related costs from climate disasters.

Sea Levels Are Already Higher Than Many Scientists Think, New Study Shows Researchers found that a majority of studies on coastal sea levels underestimated how high water levels are, and hundreds of millions of people are closer to peril than previously thought.

Breaking News: Scientists have been using methods that underestimated how high sea levels already are, a new study found. One result is that hundreds of millions more people are already living dangerously close to the rising ocean than Western scientists had previously estimated.

Coming soon to a courtroom near you.

Takeaways: O&G Liabilities Accounting Webinar - Investors For Paris Compliance Shareholder equity at risk from oil and gas liabilities accounting

Recap of the webinar last week on Canadian oil and gas liabilities accounting - with billions of shareholder equity at risk due to lowballing and incomplete disclosure. www.investorsforparis.com/takeaways-og...

LNG 'boosterism' leading Canada to make high-risk market bets, says major shareholder activist Projected cost overruns and profit-taking by developers could leave Canadian LNG priced out of weakening global markets, undermining Ottawa’s export-focused energy strategy, says Investors for Paris C...

“Many of the [sector] actors involved are glossing over the worsening stakes because they aren’t the ones taking on the biggest risk,” Sambasivam said. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/26/n...

LNG 'boosterism' leading Canada to make high-risk market bets, says major shareholder activist Projected cost overruns and profit-taking by developers could leave Canadian LNG priced out of weakening global markets, undermining Ottawa’s export-focused energy strategy, says Investors for Paris C...

“Many of the [sector] actors involved are glossing over the worsening stakes because they aren’t the ones taking on the biggest risk,” Sambasivam said. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/26/n...

The LNG Casino: Who Wins and Who Loses? Canada is betting big on LNG at a time when global demand for the product is softening and costs keep ballooning. But in the game of LNG development, not everyone faces the same risks, or even plays b...

New report showing risks to Canadian equity holders in LNG: www.investorsforparis.com/the-lng-casi...

“We’re likely at this inflection point where (climate-related) costs are going to start growing more rapidly. The observed costs have been fairly linear so far. Going forward, that’s going to start increasing at an increasing rate", warns Prof Knittel (MIT)

Register: www.bcclimateresilience.ca/bccrs2026

Climate action is the world’s cheapest insurance policy, study says Climate policy is not discretionary spending but collective risk pooling, according to a Vienna University study, who argue that as natural disasters proliferate, it acts as a public insurance system ...

“most climate damage is not absorbed by private insurance markets but is transferred directly onto public budgets…climate protection is not just an environmental necessity but an economic rationality”

www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Tomorrow!

The giant oversight in Prem Watsa’s long-term investing strategy OPINION | The Fairfax Financial founder designed the firm for permanence. Why is it financing fossil fuels?

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Statement on Ontario Teachers’ flawed 2026-2030 climate strategy — Shift - Protect Your Pension and the Planet OTPP’s Climate Transition Aligned Framework: 2026-2030 Climate Strategy has the fund moving in a smart and strategic direction to focus on real-world decarbonization. But OTPP’s strategy has major bli...

The new climate strategy released today by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) misses the mark. It has major blind spots which could lead to serious consequences for the retirement security of working and retired Ontario teachers. #onpoli #onted #ONclimate www.shiftaction.ca/news/2026/02...

Climate Analysts Correct Fossil Industry Spin Climate analysts and advocates are pushing back after two prominent fossil fuel advocates published an op ed in the Globe and Mail attacking two of the remaining pillars of Canada’s climate strategy—f...

REACTION: Climate analysts and advocates respond to statements by Deborah Yedlin, president and CEO of the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, and Lisa Baiton, president and CEO of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, in a Globe and Mail op ed. Full story & more comments as they come in:

Good morning with good news: Battery costs plunged 27% in 2025, a bigger fall than 11% forecasted 2025 decline!

Global battery deployment jumps 33% in 2026 to 122.5 GW in 2026!

Battery costs fall 25%; solar costs 30%; onshore wind 23% & offshore wind 20% by 2035!
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Costs of Big Batteries Are Tumbling and Can Boost Clean Power Battery storage costs fell more than a quarter to a record low last year, improving the economics of projects to pair the equipment with renewables and which can help tackle curtailment of solar and wind.

Battery storage costs fell more than a quarter to a record low last year, improving the economics of projects to pair the equipment with renewables and which can help tackle curtailment of solar and wind

Climate Change Made Deadly Valencia Floods More Intense Man-made climate change intensified the rain that fell over Spain’s Valencia region in 2024, when flash floods and landslides caused at least 230 deaths and an estimated €29 billion in damages ($34 billion).

Climate change made the floods in Valencia in 2024 more intense and more widespread, a new report found

One of Big Oil’s Biggest Defenses Is Getting Blown Up For decades, fossil-fuel companies and their climate-change-denying allies obsessively tried to kill the federal government’s right to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions. Like Ahab, they may find that ...

For decades, Big Oil has used the EPA endangerment finding as a legal shield. Trump's taking that shield away just as states are starting to sue Big Oil to help pay for climate damages. Awkward!

Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com

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New analysis from @climateinstitute.bsky.social: Canada is off course for its climate goals, with more riding on a few policies.

It's time to get serious, Canada. We need to weave climate progress into efforts to build a clean + connected economy independent of the US.

@cape-acme.bsky.social

Something something net zero.

Their commitments never were.

Record heat and raging fires ring in 2026 across the Southern Hemisphere From Argentina to Australia to South Africa, record heat and raging wildfires are rampaging through the Southern Hemisphere at the start of 2026, with scientists predicting that even more extreme temperatures could lie ahead - and possibly another global annual high - after three of the hottest years on record.

Record heat and raging fires ring in 2026 across the Southern Hemisphere reut.rs/3MD6PZJ

UK farmers warn of rotting crops after exceptionally wet start to year Met Office says ‘strong and unusually southerly jet stream’ to blame for weeks of heavy rain

UK farmers warn of rotting crops after exceptionally wet start to year ft.trib.al/bmZn1RJ

Funny, we don't remember them doing this for clean energy or anything similarly consistent with their net zero promises.

"The US government’s universe is an increasingly lonely fantasy world. You’re trapped in the real one"...

The Fed Is Heading for an F on a $7 Trillion Test The people whom President Donald Trump has picked to protect America’s money keep insisting a heating planet won’t set that money on fire. But it’s already burned trillions of dollars and threatens to...

Trump's would-be protectors of America’s money pretend a heating planet won’t set that money on fire. But it’s already burned trillions, losses that will increasingly be permanent. It's financial malpractice

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