Environment Minister Peter Kent refused to confirm or deny reports Canada is walking away from the 1997 agreement that bound 37 industrial countries to limit carbon emissions over a five-year period. Read more…
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 Africa. “I won’t comment on a speculative report,” Kent said […]
The Harper government is joining the United States in raising objections to a planned $100-billion (U.S.) a year climate fund that is designed to bridge differences between rich countries and the developing world. Read more…
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 world’s effort to mitigate dangerous climate change cannot wait any […]
Canada made the front pages in Britain today, but not in a way that will do much for the national image. “UK secretly helping Canada push its ‘dirty’ fuel,” reads the top-of-page headline in Monday’s Guardian. In the story picked up […]
Europe is not discriminating against Canada with its proposed new fuel quality legislation that would brand oilsands oil as dirtier than conventional crude, says a member of the European Parliament visiting Montreal Friday to meet with Quebec politicians and journalists. […]
