Civil society interventions
Meeting with Minister Peter Kent
December 6, 2012
Doha, Qatar
Submitted interventions
John Stone- IPCC scientist
Scientists have been warning governments of the potential threat of climate …
Canada trailed only by Kazakhstan, Iran and Saudi Arabia in 2013 climate change performance index
December 3, 2012
(Doha, Qatar) Canada fell to 58th place out of …
World’s biggest oil producer says it wants to make a 100% switch from fossil fuels to clean energy
Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil producer, has plans to become …
In the spring of 2012, Tides Canada hosted a series of meetings across the country to discuss how a Canadian energy strategy could help accelerate the nation’s transition to a …
Recognized for gutting the text in Rio and rolling back environmental regulations at home
Rio de Janeiro – Canada was awarded the second ever Rio Fossil of the Day today …
Environment groups slam Tories’ ‘spin’ on emissions record
The federal government is nearly one-third of the way to reaching its new, easier-to-hit 2020 greenhouse gas targets according to Environment Canada’s …
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was in Washington yesterday making some misleading statements about tar sands (which are also called the oil sands) and the Keystone XL pipeline.
In a …
The plan to weaken one of Canada’s foremost environmental laws outlined in today’s budget is nothing more than a gift to Big Oil. It’s a cynical attack on one of …
The Harper government will deliver their first majority government budget tomorrow. There is a lot of anxiety going into this budget with big cuts expected. While the government is denying …
As countries struggle with the immediate challenges of stretched public finances and high unemployment, they must not neglect the longer term. Action needs to be taken now to prevent irreversible …
À quoi vous fait penser le Canada? À de vastes espaces sauvages protégés? À la diversité culturelle et à la tolérance? À la réputation du Canada comme agent international pour …
Ontario got a second wind farm approval through a tribunal appeal under the Green Energy and Green Economy Act. The appellant, the Middlesex-Lambton Wind Action Group Inc. withdrew its appeal suddenly, …
The Council of Canadians, Climate Action Network Canada and the Indigenous Environmental Network have been meeting with Ottawa-based European Union Embassies to counteract Canadian lobbying against an important European climate …
Just because something is a bit complicated, it doesn’t mean you can ignore it, especially when it’s hurting you.
And yet, this appears to be the case with the loss …
For Earth’s climate system, 2011 was an extraordinarily turbulent year. The United States saw a series of record-busting extremes, from a devastating tornado season to an epic drought in …
New York, 14 December 2011 – Against a backdrop of the multiple crises of the past four years, the United Nations today launched a report that offers UN agencies and its …
Improvements to Feed-In Tariff Will Increase Ontario’s Competitiveness: Unprecedented Environment and Industry Coalition Delivers Proposal to Strengthen Ontario’s Renewable Energy Policy
Toronto, ON – The Green Energy Act Alliance and …
THE TOCQUEVILLE REVIEW
Stéphan Dion speaks about Canada’s participation in the struggle against climate change in the new issue of The Tocqueville Review (Vol. XXXII, No. 2)
The Tocqueville Review…
Al Gore called it The Inconvenient Truth, and I’ll bet he’s had many sleepless nights since his film came out.
We live in very troubling times, since the gravity of …
WASHINGTON, DC – President Obama today announced nearly $4 billion in combined federal and private sector energy upgrades to buildings over the next 2 years. These investments will save billions …
Canadians want Ottawa to be part of an international treaty to combat climate change, and would even support carbon taxes as a means of meeting the country’s emission reduction targets, …
Renewable energy is surpassing fossil fuels for the first time in new power-plant investments, shaking off setbacks from the financial crisis and an impasse at the United Nations global warming …
Environment Minister Peter Kent wouldn’t confirm or deny Monday that Canada plans to formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, as talks on the accord’s future got underway in Durban, South …
Environmental Consultant, Matt Price, offers his thoughts on the Ethical Oil Campaign. Read more...…
As we all settle in for the 17th Conference of the Parties and take advantage of all that Durban has to offer, ECO interrupts our regular programme for this special bulletin: The …
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