National climate emergency declared by House of Commons The House of Commons passed a motion to declare a national climate emergency in Canada on Monday night. The motion was put forward by Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna, and it passed with 186 votes to 63. Global News original article… Pope Francis declares ‘climate emergency’ and urges action Pope Francis […]
‘Green Municipal Fund Driving Innovative Sustainability Solutions for Municipalities’ Deirdre Laframboise
CACOR and CMOS ANNUAL LUNCHEON This presentation provides an overview of the challenges Canadian municipalities face in addressing sustainability and related issues and focus on the solutions the Green Municipal Fund (GMF) and it’s sustainability and climate change programs address via capacity building and funding support. It also examines GMF’s 5 Year Strategic Plan (2018-2023) […]
The terms of doing business — overseas
Dr. John Hollins, past chair CACOR Board of Directors, on 2019-04-07, wrote: This is a commentary on the place of Canadian business in the big wide world, not only in the “developing” world, but also in some “developed” countries. The SNC-Lavalin brouhaha has much broader dimensions than being the blame game du mois. It may […]
Tapping into what matters: Relational Values and Policy mixes for sustainability Professor Kai Chan
Tapping into what matters: Relational Values and Policy mixes for sustainability Video recording of our CACOR Lunch on 2019-03-20 Policy Making involving the environment is dominated by one kind of thinking, particularly about values—economics. (Intrinsic values are often recognized, but lack the rigorous framework of economics.) Insights from many other relevant social fields are myriad but […]
POSITION ON POLITICAL ACTIVITY
Bill Pugsley, Ian Whyte and Ted Manning (all past Members CACOR Board of Directors) had an interesting email exchange in one of CACOR’s discussion groups. Bill posted 2019-02-25: Here are a couple of posts about using the law and the court to make progress on climate change, especially the last one which reviewed the case […]