Oct 28 2020 — Alex Binkley — National Newswatch — Science magazine calls for reduced use of nitrogen fertilizers. Ottawa—Farm use of fertilizers to boost crop production is once again getting the wrap for worsening the planet’s greenhouse gas problems without recognizing that the 4-R Program developed by Fertilizer Canada presents a solution. An article in ZME Science, an online publication that generally places […]
Oct 19 2020 — Alex Binkley — National Newswatch — The next federal budget should endorse the concept. Ottawa—The push from within the agrifood community for sustainable farming and food production has won the backing of a broad coalition of environment groups. The 25-member Green Budget Coalition issued a sweeping set of proposals for the federal government to follow in implementing promises made in the […]
Oct 16 2020 — Policy Options — This summer, in the middle of a health and economic crisis, Canada’s finance minister resigned. His concerns over the cost and scope of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s green economic recovery plans were reportedly a contributing factor.
Oct 9 2020 — Prince William on Thursday announced the establishment of an environmental prize worth 50 million pounds, or $65 million, that will reward climate change solutions over the next 10 years, saying it was an effort to “turn the current pessimism surrounding environmental issues into optimism.” Sir David Attenborough, the naturalist behind dozens of documentaries chronicling the […]
Oct 7 2020 — National Observer — Every summer, wildfire smoke on the West Coast turns skies in cities on both sides of the United States-Canada border an eerie, apocalyptic orange. That’s not the only thing wafting across the border. Emissions from coal-fired electricity plants in the United States contribute to a changing climate globally and in Canada, which is warming twice […]
Oct 3 2020 — CBC — The next battle in the ongoing war between Ottawa and Alberta is the clean fuel standard that the federal government wants to bring in as part of its efforts to fight climate change. Alberta says it will see the feds in court. It’s just the latest in a series of salvos from the cash-strapped heart […]
Oct 2 2020 — National Observer — Canada has made the top 10 list of countries for the number of jobs in hydropower, but didn’t rank in three other key renewable energy technologies, according to new international figures. Although Canada has only two per cent of the global workforce, it had one of the 10 largest slices of the world’s jobs in […]
Sep 29 2020 — Adam Radwanski — Globe and Mail — As the federal government prepares to roll out climate-related spending commitments as part of its economic recovery strategy, a report being released on Tuesday suggests that Canada’s emissions reductions targets could be achieved at a surprisingly manageable cost. Produced by the new Institute for Sustainable Finance at Queen’s University, the study estimates that meeting the […]
Sep 27 2020 — Associated Press — In a year of cataclysm, some world leaders at this week’s annual United Nations meeting are taking the long view, warning: If COVID-19 doesn’t kill us, climate change will. With Siberia seeing its warmest temperature on record this year and enormous chunks of ice caps in Greenland and Canada sliding into the sea, countries are […]
Sep 26 2020 — The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — Demonstrators gathered in downtown Montreal on Saturday to protest planetary warming on the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice. The coalition behind the event is calling for net zero emissions by 2030, one item on a slate of demands that include Indigenous self-determination, migrant rights and defunding the police. Lylou Sehili, co-spokeswoman […]
Sep 25 2020 — Globe and Mail — In the late summer of 2018, Ben Maelissa, chief executive and part owner of Netherland’s Danser Group, one of Europe’s largest operators of freight river barges, received a series of rather distressed messages from his captains. The water levels in certain parts of the Rhine River had sunk so low that their ships were trapped. […]
Sep 23 2020 — NY Times — President Xi Jinping of China pledged on Tuesday that his country would adopt much stronger climate targets and achieve what he called “carbon neutrality before 2060.” If realized, the pledges would be crucial in the global fight against climate change.
Sep 22 2020 — Policy Options — No issue affects mobility, equity, and climate change more than public transit, which is essential to a green and socially inclusive recovery. If we don’t get our approach to transit right, we risk making urban congestion worse, making mobility dependent on income, and putting climate goals further out of reach.
Sep 21 2020 — Bob Weber, The Canadian Press — Satellite pictures show Arctic sea ice is at its second-lowest level since such records began and barely missed breaking the old mark. "There's no going back at this point," said Mark Serreze of the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center. "It's not going to come back up." Although some melting might yet occur, the centre fixed […]
Sep 21 2020 — The Canadian Press — Ontario will be able to use its own carbon-pricing system for big industrial emitters after getting a green light from the federal government over the weekend. However Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says the nod of approval comes begrudgingly because Ontario’s proposal will not cut greenhouse-gas emissions as much as the federal version. Wilkinson says in […]