Dear Cacor Members: Attached you will find a joint statement of CACOR and the G78 who invited us to submit it to the Government of Canada on the topic of Canada’s international climate finance. Your board has approved this statement and it has been communicated to the Government of Canada. While you will wish to […]
COVID: six nations compared
Dr. John Hollins, past Chair Canadian Club of Rome, summarizes: COVID – in six nations STORY courtesy Gordon Kubanek; SUMMARY by John Hollins This article is from the Tyee, an independent, online news magazine from B.C., founded in 2003 and devoted to fact-driven reporting and analysis that informs and enlivens our democratic conversation. Tyee is […]
GREEN GRIEVANCES by Jeff Passmore
Jeff Passmore, Canadian Club of Rome member, has a letter published in the Globe and Mail in response to the article: Canada Can Lead On Climate Change, Jeff Passmore responded. (July 30): Contributor Mary Robinson seems too kind. She states that “Mr. Trudeau risks severely damaging his country’s credentials on climate change.” Whatever “credentials” […]
Domestic Hot Water Efficiency
In a world where energy consumption is on the rise, our only hope is the development of new energy-generation technologies and energy efficiencies. Although currently used renewable energy sources such as wind and solar energy have their merits, there is a gigantic, permanent, and untapped energy source quite literally under our feet: geothermal energy. Temperatures […]
Could COVID-19 be less lethal than we thought?
Dr. John Hollins, past chair, Canadian Club of Rome observes: ERIC HOSKINS, GLOBE AND MAIL, 2020 May 15 Eric Hoskins is a medical doctor, public health specialist and the former health minister for Ontario. When I was collecting data for my PhD thesis in epidemiology at the University of Oxford, my professor would often pull […]