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Brazil is on fire, and both crime and climate change are to blame

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Brazil is on fire, and both crime and climate change are to blame

As It Happens6:32Brazil is on fire, and both crime and climate change are to blame As Cristiane Mazzetti flew over the Brazilian Amazon this month surveying wildfire damage, she couldn’t help but feel frustrated. Mazzetti is a forest campaigner for Greenpeace in Brazil. For years, the environmental group has been trying to curb the deforestation … Read more

Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions climbed in 2022, after pandemic slowdown

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Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions climbed in 2022, after pandemic slowdown

Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions rose in 2022, as the economy rebounded from the pandemic slowdown, according to figures obtained by Radio-Canada ahead of today’s government announcement. The new National Inventory Report data shows emissions reached 708 megatonnes in that year, compared with 698 megatonnes in 2021. But the office of Environment Minister Stephen Guilbeault said … Read more