Chris Rose
Chris Rose is a journalist and communications consultant. Born in Vancouver, his interests include politics, history, demographics, the economy, the environment and energy-related issues. During a journalism career that spanned close to three decades, Rose worked at three newspapers, mostly at The Vancouver Sun where he was both a reporter and an editor. As Special Projects Editor, one of his assignments at The Sun was planning and coordinating municipal, provincial and federal election coverage. Numerous stories that he worked on as both a reporter and an editor won journalism awards. A third generation print journalist, Rose also worked at the non-profit European Wind Energy Association in Brussels, Belgium, as both a staff employee and a consultant. While there, Rose was responsible for reporting on annual conferences put on by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Stories by Chris Rose
Financing Climate Action Among Major Concerns in First Week of COP20 Climate Negotiations
How to finance a global shift away from toxic greenhouse gases caused by burning fossil...
Clean Energy Provided More Jobs Last Year Than Oilsands: Report
Canada’s rapidly developing green energy industry has seen investments of more than $24 billion in...
G20 Governments are Spending $88B Each Year to Explore for New Fossil Fuels. Imagine if Those Subsidies Went to Renewable Energy?
Rich G20 nations are spending about $88 billion (USD) each year to find new coal,...
Kinder Morgan Oversells Benefits of Trans Mountain Pipeline, Underplays Costs, Says New Report
Kinder Morgan has significantly overstated the benefits of its controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion proposal...
Canada Urged to Prepare for ‘Climate Migrants’ in Warming World: New Report
In a sign of things to come, a report by the Canadian Centre for Policy...
The EU’s New Climate Commitments Make Canada and the U.S. Look Ridiculous
The European Union has reached a new legally-binding climate change agreement that would see greenhouse...
“Citizen Interventions” Have Cost Canada’s Tar Sands Industry $17B, New Report Shows
Oil companies and fossil fuel investors seeking further developments in the Alberta tar sands have...
In Starkest Warning Yet, IPCC Calls on Politicians To Rapidly Transition to Renewables to Avoid Climate Disaster
In its starkest warning yet about the challenges facing humanity, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
World’s Major Banks Poured Over $80 Billion into Coal Last Year Alone
At least $83 billion USD in financing was provided to 65 coal mining and energy...