While it is encouraging that a path forward now exists for an international agreement on climate change, the deal completed Sunday in Durban, South Africa, will allow greenhouse gas emissions to continue rising until 2020, at which point we may well exceed the tipping point on global warming, Citizens Climate Lobby said Monday. Continue reading Durban climate deal will allow increasing emissions until 2020
Vancouver – Expectations were low that any form of agreement would be reached at the UN climate negotiations in Cancun, … Continue reading Cancun Climate Agreement Raises Temperature on Harper
Cancun – Governments in Cancun have chosen hope over fear and put the world on a difficult but now possible-to-navigate path to a global deal to stop dangerous climate change. Continue reading Cancun deal a step in right direction
Cancun – The UN climate talks have ended in Cancun and leading experts from diverse organizations in Canada have responded as follows: Continue reading Leading experts respond to outcome of UN climate talks in Cancun
Cancun – Led by the tiny Pacific island of the Federated States of Micronesia, a growing group of low-lying islands and other vulnerable countries are calling for fast action on the approximately 50 percent of global warming that is caused by pollutants other than carbon dioxide (CO2). Continue reading Targeting non-CO2 pollutants in Cancun
Climate change, climate forcing, global warming – all these terms frame a collective public debate about the future of the world as we know it. Since that “world” is dynamic and geographically diverse, it is not surprising that political responses range widely from hand-wringing to commitment and resignation, to disbelief and reticence, or even outright denial. Continue reading Some Like It Cold: The Politics of Climate Change in Canada
Ottawa – A network of leading non-governmental organizations has made a people’s submission to the United Nations on behalf of over 150,000 Canadians who have signed the KyotoPlus petition on Canada’s climate change commitments. The submission was made in light of the January 31st deadline for countries to indicate what they will be pledging to do under the Copenhagen Accord. Continue reading A People’s Submission on Climate Change
September 15, 2009 — Dan Woynillowicz, spokesperson for the Pembina Institute, made the following statements in response to Shell’s media … Continue reading Pembina Reacts: Shell Press Release Misleading
Here’s your weekly Science Matters column by David Suzuki with Faisal Moola. Scheer determination transforms Germany’s energy grid In 2005, … Continue reading Science Matters: Scheer determination transforms Germany’s energy grid
One of my proudest moments came in 1992 at the inaugural Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Along with UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (which in turn led to the Kyoto Protocol), a second key outcome of this international meeting was the signing of the Convention on Biological Diversity, a groundbreaking agreement founded on the principle that conserving biological diversity is “a common concern of all humankind”. Canada was the first of 189 countries to sign the agreement. Continue reading B.C.’s Biodiversity Is Important for All of Canada – Science Matters
