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CaGBC honours green building contributions

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Five buildings, five individuals, a company and a government agency were named winners of The Canada Green Building Council’s 2022 awards June 3 during its annual Building Lasting Change conference in Toronto.

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In a nearly two-thirds shareholder vote at Home Depot’s Annual General Meeting, investors defied Home Depot’s board and approved a resolution from Green Century Capital Management calling on the company to assess deforestation in its supply chains.

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British Columbia’s efforts to prevent mass deaths during its next heat wave will accelerate the multiple moves already happening in many cities to ensure that all new buildings have robust ventilation and to add tree canopy that provides cooling shade.

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Canada’s carbon offset market will be for credits produced by municipalities that capture methane from their landfills, with future markets to be created for cutting emissions from farmland and forests, and for reducing fluorinated refrigerants in advanced refrigeration systems.

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A coalition of Canadian investor groups has named 40 high-emitting companies that it will try to push to set tougher targets to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and advance the transition to a low-carbon economy.

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Advisers say that rather than creating a fundamental power shift, the reforms could highlight the importance to each side of having effective engagement and a good story to tell. Playing well with others is becoming more widely accepted, they say.

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Investors say they will divest around a fifth of their overall portfolios in the next five years to reduce exposure to high-emitting assets. This might help these organizations achieve their net-zero targets, but is it really solving the core problem?

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An Oxford Economics and SAP report has uncovered significant barriers to corporate sustainability initiatives. The problems include a lack of communication and engagement by executives, siloed technologies that don’t share processes or information, and a lack of cross-company partnership.

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Canada comes top with four cities in the top five global list, including Vancouver (No. 1), Toronto, Calgary and Edmonton. Only the European city of Stockholm (No. 2) broke up Canada’s top-five domination of cities for the greenest stays.

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Saint-Gobain, through its subsidiary CertainTeed, plans to invest $91 million to upgrade its Montreal wallboard manufacturing facility to become the first zero-carbon drywall plant in North America. Nearly 44,000 t (48,501 tonnes) in emissions per year could be saved.

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FLO, an EV charging equipment manufacturer, will open its first U.S. plant in Auburn Hills, Mich. This fall, the Quebec City company plans to finish the facility, which will cost $3 million and create 133 jobs, CEO Louis Tremblay said.

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Most refrigerators, air conditioners, and heat pumps are charged with refrigerants made from hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). Many of these HFCs may protect the ozone layer, but they’re still serious greenhouse gases with global warming potential many times that of carbon dioxide.

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The recycling giant Ricova, accused by the Inspector General of having used deception to sell its recovered materials abroad, will be placed on the “black list” of the City of Montreal for a period of five years.

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Carleton University’s Global Water Institute, which is directed by Civil and Environmental Engineering researcher Banu Örmeci, is collaborating with industry partners to develop technologies to monitor microplastics in water, air and on the land.

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Danone North America plans to achieve zero waste to landfill across all its facilities by working with third-party partners and local organizations to reuse, recycle, compost or use for energy recovery all the waste its operations produce.

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Rather than focus solely on plastic alternatives, we must consider the full lifecycle of materials to see the benefits of circularity. Three technologies are surfacing as viable solutions to increase plastic’s circularity with low-carbon performance at the core.

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Architecture has long been a male-dominated field. While times are slowly changing, some firms have made a deliberate effort to make their offices more representative of society as a whole by promoting gender equality.

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The European Parliament will vote this week on a raft of EU climate change policies designed to cut Europe’s emissions over the next decade, with proposals facing multiple amendments and the outcome uncertain for some of the most ambitious plans.

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Methane emissions are classified as a greenhouse gas and are deserving of as much attention as carbon when discussing strategies to mitigate climate change. This is a deep dive into sources of methane and whether a methane tax is feasible.

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The Rio Grande has long been impacted by withdrawals for agriculture and other uses. Now, rising temperatures and an unprecedented drought pose a grave and growing peril to the river and its ecosystems.

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