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Six years ago, the world came together to sign on to the Paris Agreement. The science says that in order to keep the goals of the Paris Agreement within reach and avert the worst impacts of climate change, the world needs to do more, and on a faster...

The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today concluded a successful bilateral visit to the Netherlands. The visit reinforced the strong relationship between our countries ? rooted in Canada's role in the liberation of the Netherlands at the end of the...

How warm will your country be by 2100? If nothing changes by then the greenhouse gases created by human activities are expected to increase the world's annual average temperature by about 2.7°C (4.9°F), with countries such as China headed for 5°C...

The Pew Charitable Trusts expressed disappointment today after the 40th annual meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) ended with member governments failing to designate Southern Ocean marine...

On the eve of the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), Université Laval and its Foundation have announced a 42% reduction in the carbon footprint of their equity portfolio. This remarkable achievement surpasses the interim 30%...

Today the Ontario Green Party launches Roadmap to Net-Zero: The Ontario Greens' Climate and Environmental Plan. "Tackling the climate emergency is the Ontario Greens' number one priority," said Ontario Greens' Leader Mike Schreiner. "It is the most...

With the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) set to begin in a few short days, governments are expected to double down on GHG emission reduction targets. A recent MEI publication described how carbon capture, utilization, and...

Pressure is mounting on financial organisations to quickly improve their efforts in the fight against climate change. A statement from the UN's annual climate change conference (Cop26) says every company, financial firm and bank must change to meet...

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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is bringing a ferocious, talking dinosaur to the United Nations' headquarters to urge more climate action from global leaders, in a short film launched today as the centerpiece of the agency's new...

PureCycle Technologies, Inc. , a company revolutionizing polypropylene recycling, announced today that Michael Dee, Chief Financial Officer, will present at "Looking Towards Glasgow ? Transitioning from a Fossil Fuel to a Renewable Energy Society", a...

University of Toronto Asset Management Corporation ("UTAM") joins more than 35 other institutional investors, managing a total of more than $5.5 trillion in assets, in signing a new Canadian Investor Statement on Climate Change, released today....

Today, the provincial government released an updated CleanBC Roadmap to achieve BC's legislated greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction target of 40 per cent below 2007 levels by 2030. The CleanBC Roadmap reaffirms that FortisBC's gas system will continue to...

Today, U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) President Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley announced the organization's bipartisan delegation to COP26, the United Nation's Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland next month. Members include New Orleans (LA)...

Ahead of COP26 in Glasgow, Climate Impact Capital has partnered with TheClimateSavers, Evolutesix, and Solve Earth to launch an ambitious and wide-ranging online collaboration platform to concentrate a critical mass of people and money on rising to...

The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today announced he will travel to Europe for a bilateral visit to the Netherlands before participating in the Group of Twenty (G20) Leaders' Summit in Italy and the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26)...

The Saudi Arabian Government has launched the Sustainable Tourism Global Center (STGC), a multi-country, multi-stakeholder coalition that will accelerate the tourism sector's...

Mineros S.A. ("Mineros" or the "Company") announced today that the National Authority of Environmental Licenses (Autoridad Nacional de Licencias Ambientales) of Colombia ("ANLA") has granted all outstanding environmental permits for the Company's...

The Authority constantly strives for innovation with the goal of "improving your tomorrow." Its latest project is the new 12,000 square-foot, small-scale Materials Recovery Facility ("MRF") named New Leaf and located within the Solid Waste Complex of...

TODAY as the world begins to gather in its continuing efforts to tackle the climate and nature crises, the global geography community has come together to call on world leaders to redouble their efforts and place the protection of nature and a...

Swedish fuel company Preem is now accelerating its measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. By 2035 at the latest, Preem will have a climate-neutral business with net-zero emissions throughout its value chain, ten years earlier than its previous...

Following EPA's announcement of its PFAS Roadmap today in Raleigh on the anniversary of the Clean Water Act, the Southern Environmental Law Center released the following statement by Geoff Gisler, senior attorney and leader of the Clean Water Program...

On October 16, 5th International Low Carbon (Zhenjiang) Conference and 2021 Carbon Peak and Neutrality Jinshan Summit, with the theme of "Green and Low Carbon Development: Industry, Energy, Technology" was held in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province,...

To mark Climate Action Day, organized by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), and in the lead-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in early November, Cogeco is proud to reiterate its commitment to this issue by...

Ontario Power Generation is committing to a continued journey of reconciliation with Indigenous communities through a Reconciliation Action Plan....

Canada Post and all its bargaining agents are working together to deliver a sustainable future for the country. Today, the five organizations launch their Environmental Action Plan, which outlines ambitious goals for the next decade and beyond....

As part of its ongoing commitment to sustainability, Aecon Group Inc. ("Aecon") recently completed a pilot of the innovative ECR25 Electric compact excavator from Volvo Construction Equipment, on a project in Toronto, Ontario. Aecon is the first...

On October 11, the first phase of the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on biological diversity (COP15) was opened in Kunming, Yunnan, China. Short film "Elephants' Journey in Yunnan" was premiered at the opening...

As Washington continues to negotiate a federal package, Silicon Valley Leadership Group recognized California's bold action in prioritizing climate infrastructure investments with the weekend signing of AB 970 by California Governor Gavin Newsom. The...

Clarity Movement Co. today announced its collaboration with AethLabs to create a custom black carbon add-on module specifically for Clarity air quality monitoring networks....

Clarity Movement Co. today announced its collaboration with 2B Technologies to create a custom ozone add-on module for Clarity air quality monitoring networks....

Clarity Movement Co. today introduced Node-S 2, the exciting second-generation hardware component of its complete air quality monitoring solution, now re-imagined and re-engineered to be a platform for a wider range of air quality measurements....

Methane is responsible for around 30 percent of the global rise in temperatures to date and half a million premature deaths globally each year. It also accounts for about 13 percent of Canada's total greenhouse gas emissions. Slashing emissions from...

Under the theme 'Galvanising Action for a Sustainable Recovery,' Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) and the World Green Economy Organization organised 7th World Green Economy Summit (WGES). It brought together prominent speakers and...

The Saline Water Conversion Corporation and Cummins Saudi Arabia Company Ltd. signed a memorandum of understanding on developing a hydrogen gas production plant, on the concluding day of WETEX 2021.     The Corporation intends to implement this...

The annual National Hydrogen Day has capped a week of excitement and progress in the international hydrogen community, starting with the Hydrogen Energy Ministerial on Monday. Though the Ministerial typically provides a global stage for hydrogen...

NASA released a climate action plan Thursday, Oct. 7, aimed at averting mission impacts due to climate change, ensuring the resiliency of facilities and assets, and providing the nation and world unique climate observations, analysis, and modeling...

For the second season, the USDA Forest Service is selling Christmas Tree permits through Recreation.gov, which makes it more convenient for visitors to find and purchase permits to cut holiday trees from their favorite forest. Permits will be...

The Land Trust Alliance, a national land conservation organization working to save the places people need and love by strengthening land conservation across America, today honored New Jersey's Tewksbury Land Trust with a National Land Trust...

Rural Investment to Protect our Environment (RIPE) is a farmer-led nonprofit advancing a groundbreaking, bipartisan climate policy plan. Through $100 per acre payments, the RIPE100 plan would reward farmers for the total public value of their...

Today, Elevate, Canada's premiere innovation and sustainability hub, and one twenty eight, a Toronto-based impact agency, announce a new partnership to expand and deepen Elevate's roster of talent collaborations....

Six years ago, the world came together to sign onto the Paris Agreement?an historic agreement amongst nations to ambitiously fight climate change and adapt to its impacts. The science says that in order to keep the goals of the Paris Agreement within...

Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has launched a new podcast series, The Climate Challengers, featuring true stories from the people working towards a world with fewer carbon emissions, doing what they can to help save the world from the consequences of...

Providence, one of the largest health systems in the nation, was invited to speak at the Race for our Planet event hosted by the United Nations High Level Climate Action Champion Nigel Topping and the British Embassy in Rome. The event aims to build...

The Energy Transitions Commission (ETC) today set out the actions which nations and companies could take during the 2020s to deliver the Paris agreement and limit global warming to 1.5°C. Current national decarbonisation pledges (known as Nationally...

With an impending vote on the historic Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act in the U.S. House of Representatives, local renewable energy developers and labor leaders hosted a roundtable discussion with the office of U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema...

A new report from the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices, Canada's independent climate policy research institute, finds that climate change impacts could leave Canadians physically and financially under water as a warming and increasingly...

A game-changing moment for international standards will enable a real acceleration in government and industry transition to net zero. Led by BSI, working with the International Organization for Standardization...

Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), a global investment group, announced today its ambitious new plan to fight climate change. Since implementing the organization's first climate strategy in 2017, CDPQ has surpassed its targets and is now...

Kontrol Technologies Corp. (NEO:KNR)  ("Kontrol" or the "Company"), a leader in smart building technologies, launched its innovative carbon credit monetization program designed to accelerate the transition to net zero emissions and to meet corporate...