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Category Archives: Energy & Climate Change
Report: Canadian Businesses are Unprepared for Climate Change
Federal government advisors are warning that most Canadian businesses are unprepared for the inevitable effects of climate change. This is the crux of a report released by the National Round Table on the Environment.
Tagged Business, Canada, Climate change, Politics
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The World “Connects the Dots” Between Extreme Weather & Climate Change
Powerful photos and videos are already streaming in from across the globe for “Climate Impacts Day. People from at over 1,000 events in more than 100 countries are “connecting the dots” between climate change and extreme weather.
100 Global Activities for Climate Impacts Day
May 5th, 2012 (5/5/12) is a 350.org event known as Climate Impacts Day. This is an opportunity for people to “connect the dots” between extreme weather and climate change. Activities are taking place all around the world to show the various ways that climate change has impacted their lives. Here is a summary of more than one hundred activities from Africa, the Pacific, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Europe and North America.
The Farce of Canada’s Carbon Capture
Canada’s carbon capture and storage efforts are grossly inadequate. Not only will these projects do little to reduce Canada’s GHG emissions, the three major companies involved in tar sands exploitation have pulled out of Alberta’s carbon capture efforts.
Canada’s GHG Rankings
As reported in the Montreal Gazette, Canada has a woeful record on GHG emissions. The 2012 Climate Change Performance Index, the Environmental Performance Index and the Pembina Institute all indicate that Canada is amongst the worst GHG emitters in the world.
Tagged Canada, Climate change, Emissions, Environment
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May 2012 Clean Energy and Sustainability Events
A recent report measured American “Green Jobs” for the first time. Perhaps no place in the U.S. was hit as hard by the economy of the past several years than Detroit. The Motor City has seen a decline for quite some time, but later this month there is a conference focused on green jobs in the area. Details can be found below.
New Partners of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Term Climate Pollutants
Here are some quotes from new partners that recently joined theClimate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Term Climate Pollutants. These quotes come from the nations of Columbia, Nigeria and Norway as well as the World Bank.
Six Initiatives from the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Term Climate Pollutants
On April 24, six initiatives aimed at accelerating and scaling-up action against the short-lived pollutants were approved by the Ministers meeting in Stockholm. Here are excerpts of UNEP’s press release from theClimate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Term Climate Pollutants meeting in Stockholm.
Tagged Clean Air, Climate change, Politics, Science
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