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Addenda Capital launches eco-social commercial mortgages fund
Addenda's eco-social commercial mortgages fund
Addenda Capital has launched the Eco-Social Commercial Mortgages Pooled Fund, which invests in commercial mortgages on the basis of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Alvéole lands sweet deals, $8.1M funding
Montreal-based urban beekeeping company Alvéole is sustaining the buzz around its business by acquiring key clients in landmark buildings and securing $8.1 million in funding for continued expansion and software development.
Innovation, CCUS key to decarbonizing concrete
A cement industry body and the Canadian government have released a blueprint for the sector to reach net-zero by 2050, challenging the heavily polluting industry to decarbonize with technology, efficiency and carbon capture.
Ottawa announces $250M heat pump grant
Canadians will soon be able to apply to a $250-million grant program aimed at helping them stop heating their homes with oil and switch to electric heat pumps, the federal government announced Monday.
Canada’s battery supply credibility leaps
Federal Innovation Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne is selling Canada’s battery-supply chain prowess in Asia again this week, but this time he has a new boast in his back pocket.
B.C. scientists, First Nation create rotting 'biofoam'
Styrofoam can take 500 years to decompose as it bloats landfills around the world, but new packing material called biofoam made of forestry waste can decompose in a matter of weeks, say scientists.
GHGSat tracks gas emissions from space
The Montreal-based GHGSat is the only business in the world to offer high-resolution satellite-collected empirical evidence of greenhouse gas emissions, particularly methane.
On the road to net-zero in Ottawa
As Canadian policy-makers across all levels of government search for ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, major developers working on projects in Ottawa are taking the lead in the building industry.
Israel joins U.S.-Canada plan for net-zero government
The Finance and Environmental Protection Ministries announced Thursday that Israel was joining a White House initiative to bring net carbon emissions down to zero by 2050 in all government activities.
Rising oceans, storm surges affecting Canada
Tides are rising, sands are shifting and coastlines are crumbling. As studies warn of rising seas and accelerated erosion resulting from climate change, coastal communities in Canada are wondering what the future holds.
Climate-related migration on the rise in North America
Typically, we consider climate-induced movements to be a southern hemisphere phenomenon, especially in the poorest countries that cannot afford climate mitigation and adaptation programs. But the weather is changing everywhere, including North America.
Small nuclear cheaper than solar, wind: C.D. Howe
The Canada Energy Regulator should hedge its bet on solar and wind making up the bulk of the country’s new power-generating capacity into 2050, according to a new report suggesting small nuclear reactors are the best option to do so.
COP27 agrees historic ‘loss and damage’ fund
Developing countries celebrated on Sunday morning as crucial climate talks ended with a “historic” deal on their most cherished climate goal: a global fund for “loss and damage”, providing financial assistance to poor nations stricken by climate disaster.
Critics denounce COP27 loss and damage deal
For the first time, the nations of the world decided to help pay for the damage an overheating world is inflicting on poor countries, but they finished marathon climate talks without further addressing the root cause of those disasters.
IRA spurs plans for cleantech factories
Three months after President Joe Biden signed a sweeping climate law named the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), several cleantech companies have moved forward with new US manufacturing factories.
100% clean energy in U.S. by 2035 doable: DOE
Four major viable paths to a net zero emissions “clean electricity” power system by 2035 “in which benefits exceed costs” are detailed in an August study by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory, or NREL.
House GOP could weaken climate disclosure rules
With Republicans now projected to control the U.S. House of Representatives, attention has shifted to their ability to conduct oversight over the executive branch, and at least one rule-maker affecting commercial real estate is likely to be in the crosshairs.
Brazil's Lula promises to protect Amazon
Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva received a superstar welcome at the COP27 summit in Egypt on Wednesday as he pledged to recommit the rainforest nation to tackling the climate crisis and offered to hold future U.N. climate talks.
Island nation mulls digital existence as sea waters rise
A country is made up of so many elements — land, people, nature, culture, history. But what happens when, one by one, those things disappear? How does a country continue its existence then?
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