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Canada Plastics Pact’s Roadmap to reduce plastic waste
Canada Plastics Pact’s Roadmap to reduce plastic waste
Canada Plastics Pact (CPP) has released an industry-wide Roadmap to 2025: A shared action plan to build a circular economy for plastics packaging. Leading retailers, producers and entities from all stages of the plastics value chain will participate.
Book seeks solutions to plastic crisis
As society has seen, a combination of local and sometimes national regulations on plastic production, sale, use, disposal and recycling — or complete lack of regulation — sway the way we handle plastic waste across place and context.
733 investors call for climate action ahead of COP26
A record 733 institutional investors from around the world, with more than US$52 trillion in assets under management, have signed a statement to governments ahead of COP26, calling for measures that would help avoid catastrophic temperature rise and manage climate risk.
Negotiators to tussle over carbon market at COP26
Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson is “cautiously optimistic” that negotiators can reach consensus on how to regulate an international carbon market when they meet in Glasgow next week for the UN climate summit, COP26.
Meeting Canada’s climate targets will be difficult
• CBC
Canada is sending a delegation to the UN climate change conference, COP26, as world leaders try to set emissions reduction goals to address climate change. What’s clear is that meeting current climate goals in Canada won’t be simple.
What is COP26? A guide to the Glasgow climate talks
Who is attending the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow next week? What are the main goals at this year’s conference? All that and more in our explainer ahead of the UN’s climate change summit.
Climate volatility a financial concern for businesses
SURVEY: A majority of decision makers at large businesses in the U.S. and the UK say climate instability poses substantial risk to their bottom lines, many putting greater emphasis on that danger than growing revenue or profitability.
Damage estimate for Barrie tornadoes jumps to $100M
• CBC
The Insurance Bureau of Canada says new estimates indicate the tornadoes that hit Barrie, Ontario and surrounding communities in July caused $100 million in insurable damage — up $25 million from previous estimates.
Airlines risk failure if they don’t cut emissions quicker
Some airlines risk failure if they do not cut carbon emissions quicker in the next three to five years due to a mismatch between short-term corporate travel targets and the airline industry’s 2050 net-zero target, an industry report said.
Responsible Travel to ban short-haul jet flights
Responsible Travel is a UK-based travel company that has always done things differently. The company just announced it will ban all short-haul jet flights of less than one hour — starting in January 2022 — in an effort to decarbonize travel.
Bitcoin miners resurrect fossil fuel power plant
A cryptocurrency-mining operation in central New York has reopened a shuttered fossil fuel power plant to power 15,300 computer servers used to unlock bitcoins, raising concerns among environmentalists, the Associated Press reports.
Mogo launches world’s 1st climate-positive bitcoin
• Financial Post • Businesswire
Mogo Inc. has launched ‘green’ bitcoin, which makes all bitcoin purchased on the Mogo platform climate positive. Mogo has been a leader in sustainable finances with the only card in Canada that plants a tree every time you use it.
Panasonic’s new battery to help Tesla lower EV costs
Panasonic unveiled a large prototype battery designed to help Tesla Inc. lower electric vehicle (EV) production costs, in a move the Japanese company’s battery chief said would deepen business ties with its key U.S. customer.
EVs can power grids, homes during blackouts
The V2G, or vehicle to grid, posits that when electric vehicles (EV) are idle, as they will be 95 per cent of the time, they can be grid-connected and (by agreement between power provider and vehicle owner) upload electricity.
Solid oxide fuel cells: A definitive guide part 3
• Microgrid Knowledge – Part 1 • Microgrid Knowledge – Part 2
This third article in a special report series explains the benefits of stationary solid oxide fuel cells and how novel distributed energy resources (DERs) will plug into the Internet of Things (IoT) landscape of tomorrow.
C&I microgrid implementation continues to expand
Historically commercial and industrial microgrid use has been one of the smallest measured. According to a report by Guidehouse Insights, microgrid use was slow to grow across industry because companies couldn’t see the immediate benefit of implementing the energy source.
Food industry not reducing demands amid water crisis
• Ceres
Most food companies are not taking the necessary action to reduce their demands and impacts on freshwater resources in the midst of the growing global water crisis, according to Ceres’ newest benchmarking report, Feeding Ourselves Thirsty.
Western U.S. grapples with water issues
Water in the U.S. is a natural resource whose abundance has been overestimated for a century. In response, the White House is advocating a package of infrastructure spending and a “Build back better” bill with money for climate mitigation measures.
Finding bright spots in coral reef catastrophe
The first-ever report on the world’s coral reefs presents a grim picture, as losses mount due to global warming. But some regions have coral growth, and researchers found corals can recover if given a decade of reprieve from hot water.
Sea otters lead green revolution on B.C. coast
In 1969, as the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission prepared to launch underground nuclear tests in Alaska, resident sea otters were relocated to the coast of Vancouver Island. The descendants of those marine refugees are now restoring ecological balance to B.C.’s coastline.
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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