Air quality is a major challenge globally and is the single greatest environmental risk to human health. More than 90 per cent of the world’s population lives in areas that exceed the World Health Organization guideline for healthy air. In North America, Canada and the United States of America have …
The South Portland City Council has voted to ban the transfer of crude oil onto ocean tankers, effectively ending any attempt to bring oil from western Canada through a pipeline into the city. The City Council voted 6-1 Monday night in favor of the ordinance that was hailed by environmentalists. …
Since its inception in 2009, the Fuel Quality Directive (FQD), a European Union regulation aimed at reducing the climate impact of transport fuels, has been attacked by powerful lobby interests that do not want the EU to take action to curtail the use of particularly greenhouse gas intensive fossil fuels. …
It was a decision that had positive implications for the ability of Goldcorp Inc and other companies to continue to mine on land that natives had ceded to Canada under treaty. Goldcorp operates Canada's largest gold mine in the same region as the tract in the forestry dispute, and had …
Half the world's population lives in urban areas. It is therefore important to identify characteristics of the built environment that are beneficial to human health. Urban greenness has been associated with improvements in a diverse range of health conditions, including birth outcomes; however, few studies have attempted to distinguish potential …
Fossil fuels will remain an indispensable part of the global energy supply for at least the next 50 years, so a means must be found to burn them without pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. According to Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator of the Financial Times: "(Just) as the civilisation …
The majority of the world’s major cities have disclosed that climate change presents a physical risk to the businesses operating in their cities. This real and current threat is driving local governments to take concrete action in response, so finds Protecting our Capital.
As water utilities across North America undertake capital campaigns to finance the replacement and expansion of their systems, the need for confident revenue projections grows. Yet many water utilities are subject to factors that can affect revenue variability, including volatile weather patterns and a growing imperative to conserve scarce water …
The Keystone XL pipeline’s proposed route through Nebraska was legally drawn, lawyers for the state told its Supreme Court in defending legislation, struck down by a state judge, that gave the job to the governor and the conduit’s builder. With President Barack Obama’s approval of TransCanada Corp. (TRP)’s planned $5.4 …
Report is the first of its kind to prescribe concrete actions that the biggest 15 economies must take to keep warming below 2C The United Nations was presented with a roadmap to avoid a climate catastrophe on Tuesday, prescribing specific actions for the world’s biggest economies to keep warming below …
This interim 2014 report by the Deep Decarbonization Pathway Project (DDPP) summarizes preliminary findings of the pathways developed by the DDPP Country Research Teams with the objective of achieving emission reductions consistent with limiting global warming to less than 2°C. The DDPP is a knowledge network comprising 15 Country Research …
Crews are working to bring back electricity to thousands of homes in Atlantic Canada after post-tropical storm Arthur swept through the area. More than 130,000 customers of New Brunswick Power and 90,000 Nova Scotia Power households had no electricity this morning as the storm moved out over the Gulf of …
A majority of Canadians overestimate the contribution the oilsands make to the world’s 11th largest economy, according to a recent poll. Non-conventional oil production -- which comes mostly from mining and steaming bitumen from beneath the soil of northern Alberta -- accounts for about 2 percent of national output, Statistics …
Brazil’s development bank BNDES approved 557 million reais ($251 million) in loans for wind projects in two states. The wind farms in the northeastern state of Ceara and the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul have a total capacity of 195.6 megawatts, the development bank said in a filing …
KHARTOUM – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed yesterday a generous contribution from the Government of Canada towards WFP emergency operations in Sudan. The contribution of CAD 5 million (US$4.5 million) will be used to support WFP’s emergency food assistance in Sudan. “We are grateful for the Government …
Guided by deeply held cultural values, First Nations in Canada are rapidly regaining legal authority to manage natural resources. We present a research collaboration among academics, tribal government, provincial and federal government, resource managers, conservation practitioners, and community leaders supporting First Nation resource authority and stewardship. First, we present results …
In just one year, health ministry officials have misused at least $70 million of funds provided for a major development programme primarily financed by the World Bank and the governments of Britain, Canada, Sweden and the United States, according to an official audit report. The audit of the Health Population …
Canada has offered to collaborate with the government on its ambitious project to clean up the Ganga, Union minister Jitendra Singh said on Wednesday. "The Ganga action plan is not a mere river project for us but also a matter of faith for millions of Indians and, therefore, it will …
Canada is pleased to have contributed 1.16 million Canadian Dollars (138 million Sri Lankan rupees) towards research projects aimed at enhancing food security in Sri Lanka through the "Canadian International Food Security Research Fund". Conducted in collaboration with Sri Lankan, Canadian and scientists from other countries, the projects aim to …
British Columbia is selling hospital bonds by touting the projects’ environmental credentials in the first test of the green-bond label’s usefulness in winning financing for provincial infrastructure projects. Marketing materials distributed to investors say the securities are up for certification from Altus Group Ltd., a lender advisory firm, for inclusion …
If Australia introduced mandatory emissions or fuel economy standards for cars, emissions could be reduced by millions of tonnes, a new report from the Climate Change Authority says. The restrictions on all light vehicles could avoid 59m tonnes of emissions by 2030 and double the fuel efficiency of light vehicles …
