Category: Air & Climate
Ontario needs to get ready for climate change: Gord Miller
The Commissioner’s report says the government must improve its strategic plan by prioritizing the actions that are needed, setting specific targets and timelines, identifying dedicated funding, and outlining the responsibilities of key government ministries.
Planet In Focus: Featuring the “Polar Explorer”
The 12th Annual Planet In Focus Environmental Film Festival is fast approaching – October 12-16, 2011 in Toronto.
Ontario Has a Long Way to Go on Climate Change
Toronto – The Ontario government will not, with its current programs, meet its targets for reducing greenhouse gases (GHGs). This is just one conclusion from the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario’s recently released 2011 Greenhouse Gas Progress Report.
Five ways to cut oil use in Ontario
Image via Wikipedia Toronto – In 20 years, Ontario drivers could be using 25 per cent less fuel than today, saving the province money and reducing environmental damage, according to a new report by the Pembina Institute. The report, Bridging the Gulf, highlights the connection between the choices made by commuters in Ontario, and the [...]
New carbon forest takes root in Ontario
Image via Wikipedia Strathroy, Ontario – TD Bank Financial Group (TD), in partnership with Tree Canada and the Munsee-Delaware Nation, announced today the planting of Ontario’s newest carbon forest, which will see a total of 77,000 fast growing hardwood trees planted on 48 hectares of abandoned farmland on the Munsee-Delaware First Nation land in Southwestern [...]
Climate Change Flash Mob
From the students at the University of Waterloo Related articles 23-year-old donates US$1M to support Waterloo student entrepreneurs (velocity.uwaterloo.ca)
Who’s stopping the winds of change?
We have now discovered, thanks to work by Toronto Star reporter Tyler Hamilton, the cost two proposed nuclear reactors at Darlington: 26 billion dollars. This is the reported cost of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd, the only of the three bids that met the Government’s standards, though not accepted by the McGuinty-Smitherman Liberals.
Pembina Institute reacts to Ontario's cap and trade legislation
Cherise Burda, Ontario Policy Director for the Pembina Institute, made the following statement in response to cap and trade legislation to be tabled today by the Government of Ontario. The legislation, which will amend the Environmental Protection Act, enables the provincial government to implement a cap and trade system but leaves critical details such as [...]
David Suzuki Foundation assesses Ontario's Green Energy Act
Media release from the David Suzuki Foundation: February 22, 2009 – The Ontario Government is expected to introduce a Green Energy Act to the provincial legislature on February 23rd. The David Suzuki Foundation is one of many organizations that have called on the government to pass a Green Energy Act that would make Ontario a [...]
Ontario's Climate Change Action Plan
Media release from the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario: December 10, 2008 – The Ontario Minister of the Environment, on behalf of the Ontario government, has released Ontario’s Climate Change Action Plan Annual Report 2007-2008: Creating our Sustainable Future (“the Report”). The intent of the Report has been to document steps taken so far to deliver [...]
