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CaGBC honours green building contributions
CaGBC honours green building contributions
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.
Home Depot investors call for forest policy renovation
• GreenBiz
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.
Cooling in new buildings vital during heat waves
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.
Canada’s first carbon offset market coming soon
• CBC
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.
Investor groups targets 40 high-emitting companies
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.
How SEC rules may impact engagement with activists
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.
Can private equity transform high-emitting assets?
• GreenBiz
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?
Report shows disconnect sustainability plans and action
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.
Canada has the highest number of sustainable hotels
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.
Saint-Gobain plans $91M zero-carbon drywall plant
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.
FLO to build $3M EV charger plant in Auburn Hills
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.
Why your refrigerator should be running on r600a
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.
Ricova placed on Montreal’s “blacklist” for five years
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.
Researchers take aim at key problem — microplastics
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.
Danone North America set goals toward zero waste
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.
Innovating to advance the circularity of plastic
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.
Women in architecture: How HMC pioneers gender equality
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.
EU lawmakers face amendments in key votes on climate policies
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.
Can we widely adopt a methane tax to cut emissions?
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.
Warming take a toll on Rio Grande
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.
Industry Events
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Greenbuild 2024: Built to Scale
Nov 12 2024
to Nov 15 2024
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA
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Sustainable Finance Forum 2024
Nov 28 2024
to Nov 29 2024
Shaw Centre, Ottawa
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