Last week the world hit a new milestone. We crossed 400 parts per million CO2 concentration in the Earth's atmosphere, 50ppm above what is considered a safe level. In the midst of this the Canadian push to get tar sands crude to international markets has become a full court press...

Last summer, 350.org founder Bill McKibben wrote an article for Rolling Stone called "Global Warming's Terrifying New Math." The piece, based on research from the Carbon Track Initiative and backed up by the World Bank and International Energy Agency, laid out three numbers at the heart of the...

Not long ago I was at a political event having a conversation with another young organizer, and as these conversations often do, they turned to some of our gripes with some of our older colleagues. Today, it was a particular frustration, the elusive "youth vote."

Politicians, political organizers and pundits...

A new movement has emerged on campuses across North America. Students, alumni, faculty and community members are coming together to push universities to divest their endowments from companies involved in the extraction of fossil fuel fuels.

With over $400 billion held by the endowments of the largest...

It's fitting that in Canada, 2013 would be rung in not with a chorus of Auld Lang Syne, but instead to the sounds and sights of blockades, round dances and the drums of Idle No More. The Indigenous-led movement that is inspiring people around the globe...

"So what now?"

As the final hours of COP18 dragged towards their close, the question was on the tip of the tongue of all of civil society. After 18 years, the United Nations climate talks have failed to reach maturity. Even the most significant and celebrated milestone of the...

Time, rope or runways, whatever the metaphor is for climate action, we are running out of it. Two days ago the 16th extreme weather event to hit the Philippines, Super-Typhoon Bopha, made landfall. At the 18th round of United Nations climate talks in Doha, Qatar the Philippine's

Last weekend, floodwaters broke across Great Britain.

Meanwhile, representatives from some of the wealthiest polluting nations around the globe told the 18th round of United Nations climate talks that after this long, Doha would not be a "pledging conference."

Long story short, something is wrong....

This post was written by the author in collaboration with youth from around the world to the head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. You can find a full list of signatories of this letter here.

Dear Christiana Figueres, (Executive Secretary of the...

On the last day of the United Nations climate change conference in Durban, South Africa last December, Canada announced that it had granted approval for the multi-billion dollar Joslyn tar sands mine. Coming shortly before Canada's withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol, the announcement said more about Canada's climate...

As Hurricane Sandy made landfall this weekend we were in the midst of PowerShift 2012. In the end over 1100 youth from all across Canada came together to connect, learn, and build the movement for climate justice. As news of the storm filtered into our phones, computers and ears I...

As I write this thousands of people are gathered in Victoria, B.C. risking arrest to send a clear message that Canada's west coast is united in opposition to the expansion of tar sands pipelines and tanker traffic.

By the time this is online, hundreds more will rally...

Sometimes, working on climate and energy issues in Canada can sometimes get a little repetitive, but every now and then something comes forward that is just so mind-boggling, so ridiculous that I have to stop and ask myself "are they (expletive) serious?"

Wednesday morning I woke up, opened the...

This past summer Bill McKibben published one of the most sobering accounts of where the world within our changing climate sits. He laid out some simple math that painted a pretty frightening picture of where we are and where we're headed if we can't create change. Since then,...

Rio+20 failed, plain and simple. Few are surprised, and many are grasping at straws within the weak, toothless text, searching for something to grab onto to claim victory, but -- as one friend said in a final email on Rio -- we need to call a cat a cat.

Twenty years ago, I was six. My priorities included lego, saturday morning cartoons and on occasion eating so many marshmallows I would puke.

Its safe to say that I had no idea what Rio+20 was, and I never dreamt that one day I would be sitting exhausted in a...

The world has a trillion dollars to spare.

This trillion dollars could finance climate solutions around the globe -- from a transition to a new green and just energy economy, to aggressive adaptation measures in the most vunderable regions. It could be used to alleviate world hunger... 300 times...

There is a postcard from Fort McMurray in my Brazilian hostel that shows a giant earth mover and excavator pulling up bitumen from Alberta's tar sands.

Hanging in the kitchen, it is a perfect allegory for something I am realizing more and more each day: no matter how far...

I've started to have a repetitive nightmare.

The light in the hearing room is bright, hot and pointed right at me. The heat is suffocating, and I am visibly sweaty, the senator leans over, taps his microphone and begins to read questions from a typed sheet.

"Mr. Fenton, Have...

Note: This is a collective Earth Day 2012 statement from Climate Justice Montreal, Climate Justice Ottawa and the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition.

The creative, courageous and inspiring Quebec student movement has today weaved its way through Montreal's Earth Day rally, mixing red and green, merging its demands...