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A U.S. oil refinery in Texas. The world’s two largest refinery systems are both producing less distillate fuel than before the pandemic erupted.

Comment: Diesel’s gloomy message for the global economy

The only way to rebalance supply and demand is more supply or a deep recession

By John Kemp November 2, 2022

Global shortages of middle distillates such as diesel, gas oil and heating oil are intensifying rather than easing, making it more likely a relatively severe slowdown in the business cycle will be necessary to rebalance the market. U.S. inventories of distillate fuel oil depleted to 106 million barrels on Oct. 7, the lowest seasonal level

Investors are increasingly focusing on links between a healthy food system and efforts to fight global warming and preserve biodiversity. Photo: fotografixx/Getty Images

Crops, Markets

U.N.-backed investors set fresh targets in sustainable food shift

By GFM Network News October 27, 2022

Reuters – A U.N.-backed group of global financial institutions including Dutch lender Rabobank on Thursday set out a series of company specific environmental and social targets aimed at helping drive a shift to a more sustainable food system. Set by a group of 11 firms in the Good Food Finance Network, including Nuveen Natural Capital

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: ‘The ceaseless drive to endless increase…’

Nitrogen overuse has serious implications for the globe

By Alan Guebert October 26, 2022

It usually goes without notice or comment, but three of the planet’s key elements – carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen – sit like ducks in row on the periodic table. None is more important than the others but if there’s a first among equals it would be nitrogen, as a prescient report from Canada’s National Farmers

"No luck for me for shelterbelt funding or anything else.” – Dane Froese.

News, Other

Farmers frozen out of climate funds

They say RM-watersheds wrangling has left them out in the cold

By Geralyn Wichers October 24, 2022

A group of farmers are locked out of a federal funding pool for emissions reduction because their municipalities don’t have agreements with their local watershed districts. Two farmers from the RM of Roland, one from the RM of Portage la Prairie and one from the RM of Morris told the Co-operator they didn’t qualify for funding under the Prairie

Editorial, Op/Ed, Other

Guest Editorial: A carrot with a consequence

By Kristy Nudds October 20, 2022

Glacier FarmMedia – In response to the backlash it has been receiving from farmers and industry over its nitrous oxide (NO2) emissions target, the federal government was quick to reiterate that it is a goal, not a mandate. However, whether this is an achievable goal is still up for debate. By setting a goal, the

...protein is increasingly being used as a political weapon to fight climate change, not just for nutrition.

Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: Politicizing proteins

Dietary choices are personal, not political, and undue coercion is unacceptable

By Sylvain Charlebois October 19, 2022

During the current election campaign in La Belle Province, one political party recently proposed a protein shift in public cafeterias and institutions by offering a menu made up of 50 per cent plant-based protein meals. In the same vein, the party also suggested that 70 per cent of food products served in public institutions be

Wrecked structures float in the water in the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona at Rose Blanche, N.L., about 45 km east of Port aux Basques, on Sept. 25, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/John Morris)

Weather

After Fiona, climate experts urge Canada to fix flagship adaptation strategy

By GFM Network News, Nia Williams September 28, 2022

Reuters — Canada’s first national climate adaptation strategy needs to be improved to include near-term targets and specific solutions ahead of its November release to mitigate worsening global warming impacts, experts advising the government told Reuters in the wake of devastation caused by storm Fiona. Fiona, one of the worst storms to ever hit Canada,

Comment, Comment/Feedback

Comment: Taxes out, subsidies in

Australia and the U.S. are passing major climate bills – without taxing carbon

By Ian A. Mackenzie September 28, 2022

At last, there’s action on climate change. The United States recently passed its largest climate bill ever and Australia is set to usher a 43 per cent emissions target into law, although the Greens will try to amend the bill so the climate impacts of new gas and coal projects are considered. Good news, right?

People work to clear the way after heavy rains and deadly floods hit the central Italian region of Marche, in Cantiano, Italy, Sept. 16, 2022. A new report says climate change will lead to “uncharted” destruction.

News, Other, Weather

Climate impacts heading to ‘uncharted territories of destruction’ —UN chief

World Meteorological Organization says world headed ‘in the wrong direction’ on climate

By Gloria Dickie September 26, 2022

Reuters – The impacts of climate change are “heading into uncharted territories of destruction,” U.N. secretary-general António Guterres warned on Sept. 13, with the release of a multi-agency scientific report reviewing the latest research on the subject. The report, led by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), warns that the world is “going in the wrong direction” on climate change. With greenhouse

File photo of greenhouse food production systems in British Columbia. (KarenMassier/iStock/Getty Images)

B.C. to back Indigenous food system projects

New program taking applications starting Monday

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News September 26, 2022

A new British Columbia program will provide up to $80,000 each for projects in agriculture, food processing or other sectors to improve food security in that province’s Indigenous communities. The province on Wednesday rolled out a new Indigenous Food Systems and Agriculture Partnership Program, which is set up to take applications starting Monday (Sept. 26)

Daily Network News

Australia raises wheat harvest estimate by nearly two million tonnes

Spain deploys military to contain African swine fever near Barcelona

U.S. livestock: Chicago cattle futures climb on post-Thanksgiving trade

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