MONTREAL — The year drew to a close with the United Nations climate-change talks, this time in Durban, again ending in failure to reach an international agreement. Instead, the 192 nations agreed to start work on a new climate-change deal […]
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 member states guidance for coordinating the transition to a […]
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 Shine Ontario Association have joined forces to present a clear […]
By my calculation, by the time Canada’s withdrawal kicks in one year from now, we will have had commitments under the Kyoto Protocol for five years less 19 days. Read more…
The Durban climate summit that ended on Sunday has been proclaimed a great success. The chair, South Africa’s international relations minister, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, told the delegates: “We have concluded this meeting with [a plan] to save one planet for the […]
The Harper Conservative government has once again been an obstructive force at the annual United Nations climate change talks. Harper’s government went to Durban determined to protect profits from Canada’s high-carbon resource economy ahead of moving the world to a […]
DURBAN: Union environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan got a surprise resounding standing ovation in a meeting of 195 countries when they got into a negotiating huddle at the middle of the night. They applauded her for her stirring speech defending the […]
SOMBA K’E/YELLOWKNIFE – Mother Nature has a crusader in Bob Bromley, who likened the territorial government’s failure to take effective action on climate change to a “crime against humanity.” The Weledeh MLA lamented Canada’s failings on climate change during the first […]
En désaccord avec la position du gouvernement Harper sur la lutte aux changements climatiques, plusieurs organisations ont tenu une manifestation cet après-midi à Montréal. Les protestataires blâment et accusent le gouvernement canadien d’avoir abandonné la protocole de Kyoto. Selon eux, […]
December 11, 2011 (Durban, South Africa) Following an extra day of negotiations, the UN climate change talks in Durban, South Africa have finished. Hannah McKinnon, Campaigns Director of Climate Action Network Canada has responded as follows: “The most important thing […]
