Progress made in the past decade has been reversed, with climate extremes such as droughts and floods identified as a main cause Global hunger has reverted to levels last seen a decade ago, wiping out progress on improving people’s access to food and leaving one in nine people undernourished last year, with extreme weather a […]
Doug Ford: Ontario cancelled 227 clean energy projects
“On the day Premier Doug Ford pulled Ontario out of an international clean energy trading market, it spelled the end for 227 emissions-reducing projects across the province, reveals a leaked document. A full list of the cancelled projects assembled by a government source — based on information obtained through their role and through multiple information […]
‘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 […]
Commons Group Meeting 16 April 2018
Dear CACOR Colleagues Can you please assist me in channeling Cacor expertise into this Commons Group gathering. One of the key items the Commons Group will be discussing on April 16 will be the Talanoa Dialogue (the other being the 1988 Toronto Conference on the Changing Atmosphere). Fiji and Poland, will preside over this year’s […]